Scrum Master / Active Secret

Peraton; Virginia (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks an experienced Scrum Master to support a federal program based in Rosslyn, VA, with flexible telework options. You will coach teams in Agile practices, facilitate ceremonies, and coordinate with multiple trains to deliver high-quality services.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years in Scrum Master/PM roles, familiarity with Jira/Confluence/SharePoint, and a US security clearance or ability to obtain Top Secret. The role emphasizes collaboration and transparent communication.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years as Scrum Master, Project Coordinator, or Project Manager, preferably for a federal customer.
• Experience with Agile ceremonies and keeping minutes, action items, and tracking progress.

Responsibilities

• Manage, support, and coach teams in Agile frameworks to deliver high quality products and services.
• Schedule, prepare for, and facilitate Agile ceremonies (PBRs, Daily Stand Ups, demos, PI Planning).
• Coordinate program alignment to Agile maturity and PI objectives.
• Assess customer requirements to guide Agile practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to drive decisions.
• Assist teams with backlog management, acceptance criteria, scope, and prioritization.
• Identify and track dependencies across trains and the program.
• Update task tracking tools (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint) and audit for compliance.
• Collaborate with Release Train Engineers to keep guidance/training current.
• Produce executive dashboards with essential Agile metrics for leadership.
• Identify impediments and promote transparency to improve Agile outcomes.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Team coaching

Scrum framework

Operational task support

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

MS Teams

Job description

Basic Qualifications:

To be considered for this position, you must at minimum meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• 14 years with a Bachelor's degree; 12 years with a Masters; 9 years with a PhD. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree requirement.
• Applicants must currently hold one of the following professional certifications or obtain one prior to start date (continued certification required):
  • CASP+ CE, CISSP (or Associate), CSSLP, Security+ CE, Project+, Agile Scrummaster
• Minimum 3 years of experience working as a Scrum Master, Project Coordinator, or Project Manager, preferably for a federal customer.
• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• A proven track record of successfully supporting programs using Agile methodologies, preferably for a software development, database management, infrastructure, or network environment with multi-function teams.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating and participating in Agile ceremonies/meetings, coordinating projects and work, creating/distributing minutes, and action items, and tracking action items to completion.
• Experience with project tracking and collaboration tools (Jira, SharePoint, MS Teams, and/or Confluence).
• Demonstrated strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience providing operational task support in a highly demanding environment.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance.

Peraton is currently seeking to hire an experienced Scrum Master.

Location: Rosslyn, VA - Flexible for occasional telework – must be local to work location.

As the Scrum Master in this role, you will:

• Manage, support, and coach teams in Agile frameworks, methodologies, principles, and practices to deliver high quality products and services to a global Federal customer.
• Schedule, prepare for, and facilitate Agile ceremonies including Product Backlog Refinements (PBRs), Daily Stand Ups (DSUs), demos, and Program Increment (PI) Planning events. Participate in meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and delivery/deployment of products and services.
• Coordinate and guide the entire program to higher levels of Agile maturity. Help the team focus on daily and iteration goals in the context of current PI objectives.
• Assess customer requirements, objectives, and priorities to better inform and guide Agile practices.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, internal operations and engineering teams, external trains, and other scrum master’s to help drive decision‑making that support organizational goals.
• Assist teams and product owners with managing backlog, documenting acceptance criteria, assessing scope, and ranking and prioritizing work items.
• Identify and track dependencies both to and from the program and collaborate with the other trains on action items.
• Assist teams and product owners with updating task tracking tools (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint). Review and audit task tracking tools to ensure adherence to Agile practices and processes.
• Collaborate with Release Train Engineers (RTE) to ensure guidance, processes, and training materials are current/updated.
• Drive development of comprehensive, executive‑level dashboards that provide essential Agile information to program leadership.
• Identify impediments to, and improvements for, long‑term Agile success by promoting transparency and communication and fostering a safe environment for escalating issues or blockers.