Scrum Master - Senior

Are you ready to apply your leadership to shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel landscape? Amentum is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to join our team of mission-driven professionals at Fort Meade, MD. In this role, you will lead challenging, high-visibility projects that directly impact the Nation’s defense and intelligence missions.

Our team delivers secure, mission-critical capabilities where system integrity and rapid deployment are paramount. We are seeking a Senior Scrum Master who combines meticulous organizational discipline with strategic foresight. In this role, you will lead efforts to establish and maintain highly efficient agile execution in a rapidly evolving operational environment. Success requires the ability to navigate complex, cross-functional dependencies independently while fostering collaborative solutions across integrated engineering teams.

To excel, you must possess a proactive leadership mindset and the agility to rapidly master and govern the delivery of next-generation systems and services.

8 Hours per day, Monday thru Friday

The duties and responsibilities of the Scrum Master / Project Manager Senior include but are not limited to the following:

• Drive end-to-end project execution using a hybrid project management methodology, leveraging predictive processes for high-level planning and iterative Agile processes for technical execution.
• Facilitate Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) ceremonies at the team and program levels, including Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
• Partner directly with the Government PMO and Amentum leadership to deliver formal status reports, manage the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), and present project performance metrics.
• Establish and maintain project governance artifacts, including comprehensive risk, action item, issues, and decisions (RAID) logs, and actively brief mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary shield for the engineering team, proactively identifying, tracking, and removing technical and administrative impediments to maintain high team velocity and focus.
• Performance management - Track, analyze, and report team performance metrics (such as velocity, burn-up/burn-down charts, cumulative flow, and SLA compliance) to drive continuous improvement.
• Translate complex engineering milestones into structured, trackable sprint epics, features, and user stories within Jira/Confluence.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, System Engineers, and Site Leads to manage and prioritize the team's backlog, ensuring clear acceptance criteria and definition of "Done.".
• Coordinate cross-functional project schedules and dependencies with external contractors, site teams (such as Fort Meade operations), and third-party independent test agencies (e.g., JITC).
• Conduct post-project reviews and lessons-learned sessions to identify process bottlenecks. Implement continuous process improvements to optimize delivery speed and quality.
• Establish team operating agreements and responsibility matrices (RACI), coaching team members on SAFe principles, hybrid delivery expectations, and program-level standards.
• Lead project readiness reviews, manage authorized service interruptions (ASIs) scheduling, and assist in the creation of site deployment schedules and project checklists.

• Employee will work in a SCIF on a daily basis.
• Employee may also be required to work in a datacenter environment for specified periods of time.

• Fifteen (15) years of experience in IT project management, systems engineering, or technical program execution supporting large-scale enterprise deployments
• Seven (7) years of dedicated experience managing projects/programs using hybrid methodologies (predictive planning paired with iterative execution), with at least three (3) years in a senior Scrum Master or Project Manager leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology (IT), Project Management, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience implementing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles, facilitating Program Increment (PI) Planning, and managing Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
• Demonstrated experience directly interfacing with Government stakeholders (e.g., DISA PMs, Product Owner, Lead Engineer, ISSM, etc.) to deliver status…