Remote Agile PM for MPAS-UFS Integration

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IBSS Corp. seeks an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to guide MPAS-UFS integration efforts for NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. You will facilitate Agile ceremonies, coordinate multi-team activities, and ensure alignment with Research-to-Operations goals.

This role emphasizes strong technical literacy, program visibility, risk management, and stakeholder communication, with remote-friendly options and a focus on delivering tested increments across platforms.

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree (or accepted equivalent)
• 8-10 years of experience in the technical area being managed and 8+ years of IT management experience
• Demonstrated success managing engineering or scientific-software teams and organizing complex delivery-order project activities
• Strong Agile facilitation, backlog management, risk/impediment escalation, reporting, coaching, and stakeholder-communication skills
• Sufficient technical literacy to facilitate model integration, scientific verification, software workflow, and operational-readiness discussions

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master/facilitator for assigned MPAS-UFS teams; prepare and facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and coordination events
• Maintain backlog hygiene and distinguish MPAS standalone scientific capability from UFS-integrated operational capability
• Track dynamical-core integration, physics/coupling dependencies, workflows, post-processing, restart/reproducibility behavior, regression evidence, performance, documentation, and operational tests
• Help teams define testable increments, hypotheses, configurations, datasets, acceptance evidence, and fit-for-purpose definitions of ready/done
• Maintain impediments, actions, risks, decisions, and dependencies; elevate aging or cross-team items with options and mission/schedule impact
• Produce iteration summaries and progress inputs showing evidence completed, readiness/gate movement, forecast variance, flow indicators, and decisions needed
• Coordinate handoffs and interface decisions with Continuous DA, GPU/UFS modernization, AI4NWP, operational organizations, and external partners
• Coach teams in version control, peer review, automated testing, reproducible environments, configuration management, and continuous integration where appropriate
• Provide workload-surge coverage to other focus areas and contribute to common facilitation practices and continuous improvement

Skills

Agile facilitation

Backlog management

Risk/impediment escalation

Stakeholder communication

Technical literacy

Education

MA/MS degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Google Workspace

Issue tracking

Dashboards

CI/CD tooling

Job description

IBSS Corp. seeks an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to guide MPAS-UFS integration efforts for NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. You will facilitate Agile ceremonies, coordinate multi-team activities, and ensure alignment with Research-to-Operations goals.

This role emphasizes strong technical literacy, program visibility, risk management, and stakeholder communication, with remote-friendly options and a focus on delivering tested increments across platforms.