Production Product Owner/Scrum Master

Absolute Business Solutions Corp.; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Planning – 401k with match

Annual Health and Wellness Allowance

Career Development funds for Education

Volunteer Time Off

Charitable Match

Referral Program

LOV Awards

Job summary

Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Production Product Owner and Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for the DIA-NDOC D3P modernization under the DTP contract. Most work is onsite at the customer location in Bethesda, MD with some flexibility for remote work based on deliverables.

You will manage the Production Team backlog, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and coach teams on SAFe practices to ensure continuous delivery and data-quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.
• Experience managing a production backlog including incidents, defects, and debt.
• Ability to translate needs into epics and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Proven facilitation of Agile/SAFe ceremonies and cross-team discussions.
• Strong communication with government and contractor stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the Production Team backlog for sustainment and security.
• Translate incidents into epics, stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Balance production support with preventive maintenance and reliability.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, and PI planning.
• Track incidents, defects, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate data-quality intake, validation, prioritization, and remediation.
• Manage dependencies across Production, Platform, CI/CD, and cybersecurity.
• Remove impediments and escalate risks as needed.
• Coach teams on Agile, SAFe, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate status, priorities, and risks to stakeholders.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile

SAFe

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Systems Eng

Master's degree

Tools

GitOps

Elastic

Redis

Job description

Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is not just another tech company. We’re a community of innovators, engineers, analysts and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. For more than 20 years we’ve supported critical Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civilian missions and global, multi-national corporations. We specialize in supporting our clients in the Intelligence, Technology, Defense, AI/ML, and Data Science fields. As we continue to grow at a rapid pace, we need some amazing new professionals to join our team.

ABSC has an exciting opening for a TS/SCI-cleared Production Product Owner and Scrum Master supporting DIA-NDOC’s D3P modernization under the DTP contract. You will lead backlog management and Agile execution for production sustainment, data-quality improvement, operational reliability, security remediation, and continuous delivery across the Production, Platform, and CI/CD teams.

The 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) program modernizes the secure data, application, and infrastructure capabilities supporting DIA’s National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). The program delivers scalable media processing, data discovery, enrichment, and analytical services that help mission users transform large volumes of digital information into timely, actionable intelligence. Team members work across software development, systems engineering, cybersecurity, platform operations, and mission integration to sustain current operations while delivering the next generation of DTP capabilities.

Work location and schedule: Most work is performed onsite at the customer location in Bethesda, MD. A flexible schedule and occasional remote work may be available based on customer requirements and deliverables.

Security clearance required for this role: An active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph is required.

Responsibilities

As an integral member of the DTP team, you will work closely with Government stakeholders and cross-functional engineering teams on the following key tasks:

• Own, maintain, and prioritize the Production Team backlog for sustainment, data-quality improvement, operational enhancements, security findings, and technical debt.
• Translate incidents, operational needs, stakeholder requests, and data-quality findings into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-ready work.
• Balance urgent production support with preventive maintenance, environment changes, release support, vulnerability remediation, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and demonstrations, retrospectives, and PI Planning.
• Track incidents, recurring defects, root causes, corrective actions, ownership, and closure.
• Coordinate data-quality issue intake, validation criteria, prioritization, remediation, status reporting, and closure verification.
• Manage dependencies among Production, application-development, Platform, CI/CD, infrastructure, database, cybersecurity, data-owner, and mission teams.
• Remove or elevate impediments, cross-team dependencies, decisions, resource constraints, and operational risks.
• Coach teams on Agile, Scrum, and SAFe practices and promote continuous improvement.
• Communicate operational status, priorities, risks, and delivery progress to Government and contractor stakeholders.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you must meet the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field with 12 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.
• Experience managing a backlog containing production incidents, defects, preventive maintenance, technical debt, environment changes, release support, data-quality remediation, monitoring, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, change management, release coordination, service restoration, and post-incident corrective actions.
• Knowledge of data-quality validation, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, reconciliation, defect tracking, and remediation workflows.
• Ability to translate operational needs into epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, and definitions of done.
• Experience facilitating Agile and SAFe ceremonies and cross-team dependency discussions.
• Ability to coordinate with developers, production support, Platform, CI/CD, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data owners, and mission stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, prioritization, stakeholder-management, written communication, and organizational skills.

Desired Skills

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Experience serving as Scrum Master for multiple teams or a team-of-teams delivery model.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Elastic, Redis, GitOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or cloud-native operations.
• Experience with metrics, logs, alerts, dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, and observability practices.
• Experience with data governance, ETL or ELT, master data, reconciliation, lineage, or data-quality operations.
• Experience coordinating incident response, change advisory, release readiness, or operational-readiness reviews.
• Product Owner or Scrum Master certification such as CSPO, PSPO, CSM, PSM, SAFe POPM, or SAFe Scrum Master.

Salary and Compensation

Salary is commensurate with education and years of experience. The anticipated salary range for this requisition is $135,000 - $245,000 annually. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include, but are not limited to, the responsibilities of the position, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, security clearance, internal equity, applicable market data, contractual labor-category requirements, applicable bargaining agreements, and other applicable laws or requirements.

Who we are:

ABSC is a technology and services company that combines the agility of a small business with proven processes refined over more than two decades in business. We specialize in supporting public sector clients in the Intelligence, Defense, Health, and Safety areas. Our team stands ready to deliver the next generation of programs, personnel, and solutions to help advance our federal government customers’ driving innovation, agility, and security across all mission areas.

Some of our benefits include:

• Retirement Planning – 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance – buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development – Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off – Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match – ABSC matches an employee’s donation to a qualifying charity
• Referral Program – We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards – Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program

ABSC is a proud V3, Virginia Values Vets, member which recognizes our commitment to hiring Veterans. If you are a veteran, please be sure to include that in your application.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.