GPU Acceleration & UFS Modernization Agile PM

H & R Computer Consulting Services; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

IBSS Corp. seeks an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead GPU acceleration and UFS code modernization efforts for NOAA programs. The role emphasizes agile facilitation, backlog management, and cross-team coordination across platforms and environments.

You will coordinate with MPAS‑UFS, continuous DA, AI4NWP initiatives, and external partners, coaching teams in CI practices, regression testing, and reproducible performance measurement while delivering end-to-end outcomes.

Qualifications

• Requires BA/BS degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 5–7 years in the technical area managed and 5 years IT management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage day-to-day engineering-team activities and coordinate work.
• Strong Agile facilitation, backlog/dependency management, risk escalation, reporting, coaching, and stakeholder communication.
• Technical literacy to facilitate software modernization, HPC/GPU, performance, regression, and portability discussions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master/facilitator for GPU/UFS modernization teams; facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and technical syncs.
• Maintain backlog records for target platform, code baseline/path, performance hypothesis, profiling evidence, numerical tolerance, portability impact, maintainability, and technical debt.
• Decompose modernization goals into testable increments with explicit correctness, regression, performance, and reproducibility evidence.
• Track CPU/GPU capacity, storage, data movement, queues, software environments, specialized skills, shared baselines, and operational windows as program dependencies.
• Maintain impediments, actions, risks, and decisions; accelerate items that threaten cross-area integration, readiness gates, capacity, or schedule.
• Prepare iteration summaries and progress inputs reporting end-to-end outcomes, not isolated kernel speedups, distinguishing forecast from evidence.
• Coordinate interfaces with MPAS‑UFS, continuous DA, AI4NWP, platform providers, and external partners without directing Government personnel.
• Coach teams in version control, peer review, automated regression tests, configuration management, CI practices, and reproducible performance measurement.
• Provide surge support to other focus areas and contribute to shared facilitation standards, metrics, retrospectives, and process improvements.

Skills

Agile facilitation

Backlog management

Dependency management

Risk escalation

Stakeholder communication

Coaching

Technical literacy

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Google Workspace

Issue-tracking tools

Dashboard tools

Technical reporting

Job description

IBSS Corp. seeks an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead GPU acceleration and UFS code modernization efforts for NOAA programs. The role emphasizes agile facilitation, backlog management, and cross-team coordination across platforms and environments.

You will coordinate with MPAS‑UFS, continuous DA, AI4NWP initiatives, and external partners, coaching teams in CI practices, regression testing, and reproducible performance measurement while delivering end-to-end outcomes.