Remote Agile Delivery Lead & Scrum Master

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek seeks an Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for Team 1 supporting Core MIRS under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. You will coordinate planning, backlog readiness, sprint reviews, and metrics, while managing risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

The role requires a Senior leader with active clearance and a track record in facilitating Agile teams, coordinating with product owners and government stakeholders, and delivering on complex

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or related field, or equivalent.
• At least ten years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience facilitating Agile software-delivery teams.
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple technical teams or workstreams.
• Experience facilitating sprint planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Experience tracking sprint commitments, impediments, risks, dependencies, actions, and delivery metrics.
• Experience working with product owners, technical leads, developers, testers, and government or business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile delivery activities for Team 1 supporting Core MIRS software capabilities.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily coordination meetings, backlog-refinement sessions, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Establish and maintain a predictable Agile delivery cadence aligned with Government priorities and approved program schedules.
• Partner with product owners and mission stakeholders to ensure backlog is prioritized, refined, and ready for sprint planning.
• Help the team develop realistic sprint goals and commitments based on priorities, dependencies, capacity, and delivery risks.
• Track sprint commitments, progress, scope changes, impediments, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.
• Identify and elevate delivery impediments and coordinate their resolution with technical leads, Government stakeholders, and supporting teams.
• Manage cross-team dependencies involving architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, training, data, interfaces, releases, and mission stakeholders.
• Coordinate weekly demonstrations and ensure delivered capabilities are ready for Government review and feedback.
• Capture demonstration feedback, decisions, and resulting backlog or action-item updates.
• Prepare, maintain, and submit Development Sprint Plans in accordance with program requirements.
• Prepare Sprint Summary Reports documenting accomplishments, incomplete work, test results, demonstrations, feedback, risks, dependencies, and planned follow-up.
• Track and analyze delivery metrics, including sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time, work aging, impediments, defects, and commitment completion.
• Use delivery data to identify trends, facilitate improvement discussions, and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate with requirements analysts to ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are clear, testable, traceable, and ready for implementation.
• Coordinate with developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, and release teams to support secure development, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Support backlog prioritization and the expedited handling of urgent defects or security-related changes.
• Facilitate communication among Team 1, other Agile teams, program leadership, and Government representatives.
• Maintain Agile boards, delivery dashboards, action logs, decision records, and related program artifacts in approved tools.
• Support release planning, release-readiness reviews, user acceptance activities, and operational-transition coordination.
• Coach team members and stakeholders on effective Agile practices, collaboration, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Protect the team's delivery focus while ensuring critical stakeholder needs and program dependencies are addressed.
• Provide delivery status, forecasts, risks, and performance information for program reporting and governance activities.
• Support continuous improvement of Agile delivery processes across the ENLIST program.

Skills

Agile delivery leadership

Sprint planning facilitation

Dependency management

Stakeholder collaboration

Delivery metrics tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Software Eng or related field

Job description

DecisionPoint | Cortek seeks an Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for Team 1 supporting Core MIRS under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. You will coordinate planning, backlog readiness, sprint reviews, and metrics, while managing risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

The role requires a Senior leader with active clearance and a track record in facilitating Agile teams, coordinating with product owners and government stakeholders, and delivering on complex