Remote Senior Scrum Master for FAA ATLAS Transformation

Kentro; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Kentro is seeking a Scrum Master III to support the FAA’s ATLAS program, a major federal IT modernization effort.

The role leads multiple Agile teams, coaches Agile practice at scale, and mentors other Scrum Masters, bridging leadership, technical teams, and government stakeholders.

Location: Remote within the United States with Eastern Time alignment; compensation ranges from $119,000 to $141,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business, or related discipline.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master, or SAFe Scrum Master.
• 5-7 years of experience in Scrum Master, project management, or Agile delivery role leading software or platform delivery teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multiple Agile teams simultaneously.
• Demonstrated experience leading Agile transformation or maturity initiatives beyond a single team.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies in a distributed/remote environment.
• Working knowledge of Agile tooling such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Expert understanding of Agile frameworks and scaled Agile (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale).
• Experience facilitating delivery of data, analytics, or software development projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated practical experience coaching Agile teams, with a track record of improving team flow and performance.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills; ability to lead without authority and influence across teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring or developing other Scrum Masters or Agile practitioners.
• Working knowledge of relevant metrics (flow metrics, lead time, cumulative flow, etc.) and how to interpret them to drive improvements.
• Experience applying AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or comparable) to streamline backlog refinement, sprint reporting, and team documentation is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for multiple Agile teams supporting FAA initiatives, coaching each toward improved flow, predictability, quality, and timely delivery of solutions.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies across teams, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, system demos, retrospectives, etc.
• Lead Agile transformation and maturity initiatives across the program: assess current delivery practice, define the path to target maturity, and drive change through to adoption.
• Implement Agile at scale — program increment planning, cross-team coordination structures, and portfolio-level delivery visibility across multiple workstreams.
• Maintain delivery visibility across scope, schedule, risks, and dependencies across multiple efforts; coordinate cross-team dependencies, surface constraints, and report status to leadership without assuming product or resource ownership.
• Facilitate the identification and resolution of dependencies and risks across teams; help implement mitigation strategies and escalation as needed.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration with architects, other Scrum Masters, product owners, and system teams to remove impediments that affect multiple teams and the Agile teams' flow.
• Mentor and develop other Scrum Masters on the program; build and lead a consistent Scrum Master community of practice.
• Establish and document program-level Agile practices — definition of done, estimation approach, backlog standards, ceremony cadence and norms — that hold consistently across teams.
• Drive continuous improvement through metrics and feedback loops, focusing on flow, quality, and customer value.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders, product owners, engineers, and other teams to align on priorities and deliverables while preserving Product Owner accountability for backlog priority and product decisions.
• Drive Agile best practices, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Facilitate team adoption of DevSecOps delivery practices, CI/CD flow, and Kanban/Scrum approaches to reduce bottlenecks, improve lead time, and make delivery constraints visible.
• Coach teams and individuals toward higher levels of performance, engagement, accountability, and ownership of commitments, applying an understanding of team dynamics and organizational change.
• Partner with program leadership to reconcile Agile delivery with federal program governance, reporting, and contract deliverables.

Skills

Scrum Master expertise

Agile coaching

Stakeholder management

Distributed/remote facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Kentro is seeking a Scrum Master III to support the FAA’s ATLAS program, a major federal IT modernization effort.

The role leads multiple Agile teams, coaches Agile practice at scale, and mentors other Scrum Masters, bridging leadership, technical teams, and government stakeholders.

Location: Remote within the United States with Eastern Time alignment; compensation ranges from $119,000 to $141,000 annually.