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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Agile Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master-Focus - **Company:** IBSS Corp. - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $115,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Configuration Management, Profiling, Computer Literacy, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), IT Management, Scrum Methodology, Regression Testing, Scientific Computating, Software Engineering, Smartsheet, High Performance Computing, Data Assimilation, Technical Debt, Gsuite, Code Restructuring, Software Version Control, Jedi (game Engine) - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a95c140b-1a26-42ea-9396-5cc75f20203d ## About the Role * BA/BS degree (or accepted equivalent). * 5-7 years of experience in the technical area being managed and 5+ years of IT management experience. * Demonstrated ability to manage day-to-day engineering-team activities and organize, direct, and coordinate assigned project work. * Strong Agile facilitation, backlog/dependency management, risk escalation, reporting, coaching, and stakeholder-communication skills. * Technical literacy sufficient to facilitate software-modernization, HPC/GPU, performance, regression, and portability discussions., * Experience managing GPU acceleration, HPC modernization, heterogeneous computing, scientific-code refactoring, or performance-portability initiatives. * Familiarity with UFS/MPAS or comparable large scientific codes, profiling, numerical reproducibility, regression testing, and CI/CD. * CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification. * Prior NOAA/OAR, NWS, Federal laboratory, cloud-HPC, or community scientific-software experience. * Advanced Smartsheet, Google Workspace, issue-tracking, dashboard, and technical-reporting skills. ## Description IBSS is seeking highly qualified candidates to potentially provide Agile program and project management services for NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. The work supports multi-organization scientific R&D programs with substantial software components and is distinct from IT program management. The multi-year NOAA Modeling Moonshot Initiative advances U.S. leadership in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) through GPU-accelerated modeling, continuous data assimilation (DA), AI-augmented ensemble prediction, and NOAA's transition to the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) dynamical core. Its Research-to-Operations (R2O) focus prioritizes moving advanced capabilities into NOAA's operational forecast suite through coordination among NOAA offices, federal laboratories, and scientific partners. The Moonshot encompasses four interconnected technical focus areas: * MPAS integration into the Unified Forecast System (UFS) for the next-generation Global Forecast System (GFS). * Continuous DA using a global km-scale Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI)-MPAS system. * GPU acceleration and UFS refactoring for advanced hardware, cloud, and high-performance computing. * AI for NWP (AI4NWP), including emulation, hybrid physics/AI models, and training datasets. The services will operate across all four areas, providing WPO with program visibility, dependency and risk management, R2O tracking, deliverable coordination, and stakeholder engagement. Although not performing scientific or software development, personnel must understand NWP, scientific computing, and Agile development to engage technical staff and coordinate effectively., Provides Agile facilitation for GPU acceleration and UFS code-modernization teams. Helps teams balance portability, correctness, maintainability, throughput, reproducibility, and technical debt while coordinating dependencies on target platforms, data, environments, and tests. Roles and responsibilities * Serve as Scrum Master/facilitator for assigned GPU/UFS modernization teams; facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and technical syncs. * Maintain backlog records for target platform, code baseline/path, performance hypothesis, profiling evidence, numerical tolerance, portability impact, maintainability, and technical debt. * Help teams decompose modernization goals into testable increments with explicit correctness, regression, performance, and reproducibility evidence. * Track CPU/GPU capacity, storage, data movement, queues, software environments, specialized skills, shared baselines, and operational windows as program dependencies. * Maintain impediments, actions, risks, and decisions; escalate items that threaten cross-area integration, readiness gates, capacity, or schedule. * Prepare iteration summaries and progress inputs that report end-to-end outcomes, not isolated kernel speedup, and distinguish forecast from accepted evidence. * Coordinate interfaces with MPAS-UFS, continuous DA, AI4NWP, platform providers, and external modernization partners without directing Government personnel. * Coach teams in version control, peer review, automated regression tests, configuration management, CI practices, and reproducible performance measurement. * Provide surge support to other focus areas and contribute to shared facilitation standards, metrics, retrospectives, and process improvements. ## Related Videos - [Profiling Symfony & PHP apps with Blackfire](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/265-profiling-symfony-php-apps-with-blackfire) - [AI and Agility: The Dynamic Duo for Disruption](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2081-ai-and-agility-the-dynamic-duo-for-disruption) - [Minimising the Carbon Footprint of Workloads](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1198-minimising-the-carbon-footprint-of-workloads) - [Enhancing Workload Security in Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/356-enhancing-workload-security-in-kubernetes) - [Grappling With Clunky Old Software? 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