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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Scrum Master - Application Build - **Company:** General Dynamics Information Technology - **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $81,349.0 - $109,250.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Information Engineering, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, Build Management, Cyber Warfare - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F4BDA96F57824FBAAB0F1402DC1F98AD/job/ ## About the Role Agile Delivery,Deliverables Management,Leadership,Prioritization,Scrum, 5 + years of related experience, * Experience as a Scrum Master or delivery lead for a software engineering team building a product rather than maintaining one. * Experience on a team spanning multiple engineering disciplines including design, where design is on the critical path. * Experience managing a backlog, including definition, estimation, and prioritization discipline. * Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve dependencies on teams outside your own. * Experience reporting delivery status to program or customer leadership against a contractual date. * Ability to hold scope and process discipline with senior and principal engineers. * A current agile delivery or Scrum certification. * Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience. Additional years of directly relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement in accordance with company labor category policy. * Public Trust eligibility. * United States citizenship is required. * Work is performed on site at a government facility in the Washington, D.C. metro area. This position is not remote or hybrid. Preferred Qualifications * Experience delivering software on a federal program against a contractual date. * Experience coordinating delivery across several independently deployed components. * Experience delivering into an environment with security or accreditation constraints, where the environment itself is a dependency. * Specific certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master I or II, PMI-ACP, or SAFe. * Familiarity with the backlog and delivery tracking tooling used on federal programs. ## Description The Scrum Master runs delivery for the engineering team building an operator application in a cyber command center supporting national cyber defense across Critical Infrastructure, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial, and Federal Civilian Executive Branch partners., Sprint Execution * Run sprint planning, daily coordination, review, and retrospective to a consistent standard * Maintain sprint scope discipline and protect the team from unplanned work entering mid-sprint * Track velocity and completion honestly, including where commitments were missed * Keep the team's working agreements current and enforced Backlog & Priority Management * Maintain the backlog so work is defined, estimated, and ordered before it enters a sprint * Work with stakeholders to keep priority explicit and to resolve competing demands before they reach the team * Ensure acceptance criteria are clear enough that completion is not a matter of opinion * Break down work spanning design, service, and interface into increments deliverable and demonstrable together Sequencing & Dependency Management * Sequence delivery across functional areas built in parallel, each depending on its own backing service * Identify dependencies on the data engineering and platform teams early and drive them to resolution * Manage the design-to-engineering pipeline so design decisions land ahead of the sprint that needs them * Track technical and delivery risk and escalate with enough lead time for the escalation to matter Delivery Reporting * Report delivery status accurately to program leadership, including where the schedule is at risk * Maintain metrics that reflect delivery reality rather than activity * Support program-level reporting obligations and customer demonstrations of working capability Team Health & Process Improvement * Remove impediments the team cannot clear itself * Use retrospectives to produce specific changes rather than general observations * Support onboarding of engineers joining the team and improve delivery practice as the team matures * Obtain and maintain the training and certifications required for the position. 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