Mission-Critical Scrum Master & Site Lead

Sigma-Defense

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 185,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Dental and Vision Insurance

Medical Insurance with HSA/FSA

Life and AD&D coverage

Educational Assistance

401(k) Plan with Company Matching

Job summary

Sigma Defense Systems in San Diego, CA, seeks a Scrum Master/Site Lead to bridge team members, technical leadership, program management, and the customer, ensuring priorities align and impediments are removed.

You will lead Scrum ceremonies, coordinate with the customer, track delivery commitments, and help cross-functional teams across software, DevSecOps, cloud, cybersecurity, and infrastructure stay focused on mission objectives.

Qualifications

10+ years of relevant experience.
Experience serving as Scrum Master, Agile Team Lead, or Site Lead.
Strong knowledge of Scrum and Agile practices.
Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Experience tracking work with Agile tools.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary day-to-day site lead for Sigma Defense Systems personnel.
Provide leadership, coordination, and operational direction to a multidisciplinary technical team.
Serve as primary interface between team, program leadership, and customer representatives.
Maintain awareness of priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues.
Coordinate work across software development, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and support functions.
Facilitate communication between technical teams and resolve cross-team dependencies.
Identify issues affecting team performance and drive resolution.
Provide leadership with timely information on team activities, risks, and staffing concerns.
Assist with onboarding and integration of new team members.
Promote a collaborative, accountable, mission-focused environment.
Help remove obstacles impeding performance and ensure commitments to customers are met.
Lead Agile ceremonies and support execution of development processes.
Maintain prioritized backlog with product owners and customer reps.
Translate mission priorities into actionable work for the team.
Ensure user stories have sufficient information and acceptance criteria.
Track sprint commitments, WIP, dependencies, impediments, and completion status.
Protect the team from disruptions while maintaining responsiveness.
Encourage realistic sprint planning based on capacity and complexity.
Facilitate productive retrospectives focused on improvements.
Monitor Agile metrics and delivery trends for improvement.