Remote Agile PM for MPAS-UFS Moonshot

IBSS; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and Rx covera

Company-paid deductible

Paid time off and federal holidays

401K with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Flex Spending (FSA) / Dependent Care

Job summary

IBSS is seeking an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead MPAS-UFS integration efforts within NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. You will facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage backlogs, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and align scientific goals with deliverable-ready work.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in technical program management, strong Agile skills, and experience with MPAS/UFS or NWP domains. Remote options preferred in MD/DC/VA region.

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; upscale 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 escalation

Stakeholder communication

Coaching

Reporting

Technical literacy

Education

MA/MS degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Google Workspace

Issue-tracking

Dashboard

Technical reporting

Job description

IBSS is seeking an Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead MPAS-UFS integration efforts within NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. You will facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage backlogs, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and align scientific goals with deliverable-ready work.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in technical program management, strong Agile skills, and experience with MPAS/UFS or NWP domains. Remote options preferred in MD/DC/VA region.