Senior Scrum Master - Agile Leader for Defense Programs

Davidson Technologies, Inc.; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Davidson Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Scrum Master in Colorado Springs, CO to lead agile software development efforts across multiple teams. You will facilitate ceremonies, coach teams, and ensure healthy backlogs in collaboration with Product Owners and stakeholders.

The role requires strong Scrum/Agile expertise, experience with common tools, and the ability to obtain security clearance. DoD program experience is highly valued for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 3-7 years of experience in Agile software development or engineering environments.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master for software or systems engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile, and Lean principles and practices.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance; US citizenship may be required.
• Experience with Agile project-management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more cross-functional Agile development teams.
• Facilitate daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies.
• Coach team members, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Scrum principles, Agile practices, and continuous improvement.
• Promote self-organization, accountability, transparency, and collaboration within Agile teams.
• Identify, track, and remove team impediments and blockers.
• Escalate issues that cannot be resolved at the team level and coordinate with program leadership as necessary.
• Work closely with Product Owners to maintain healthy, prioritized, and actionable product backlogs.
• Help teams develop realistic sprint goals, commitments, and delivery plans.
• Monitor sprint progress, team capacity, velocity, burn-up/burn-down trends, and other relevant Agile metrics.
• Identify delivery risks and develop mitigation strategies with leadership.
• Coordinate dependencies between software, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, integration, and test teams.
• Facilitate communication between development teams and external stakeholders.
• Support planning and execution across multiple Agile teams when program-level coordination is required.
• Maintain Agile boards, dashboards, metrics, and program documentation using tools such as Gitlab, JIRA and Confluence.
• Ensure sprint and release information is accurately communicated to stakeholders.
• Support release planning, increment planning, and coordination of major software deliveries.
• Facilitate technical demonstrations and sprint reviews for government and program stakeholders.
• Help teams identify and implement process improvements that increase quality, productivity, and predictability.
• Identify recurring issues, bottlenecks, and organizational impediments and drive corrective actions.
• Promote engineering best practices, quality standards, automation, and continuous integration within the team's development process.
• Support risk, issue, action, and dependency tracking.
• Coordinate with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Test & Evaluation, Configuration Management, and Program Management organizations.
• Assist with program planning, status reporting, and milestone tracking as needed.
• Support preparation for customer meetings, program reviews, technical interchange meetings, and demonstrations.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and records required by the program.
• Help ensure Agile processes remain aligned with contractual, security, quality, and organizational requirements.
• Support additional program and Agile transformation activities as assigned.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional teamwork

Impediment removal

Stakeholder communication

DoD program experience

JIRA/Confluence/Azure DevOps

Security clearance

CSM/PSM certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree or related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Rally

Job description

Davidson Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Scrum Master in Colorado Springs, CO to lead agile software development efforts across multiple teams. You will facilitate ceremonies, coach teams, and ensure healthy backlogs in collaboration with Product Owners and stakeholders.

The role requires strong Scrum/Agile expertise, experience with common tools, and the ability to obtain security clearance. DoD program experience is highly valued for this position.