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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Agile Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master - **Company:** IBSS Corp. - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $130,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Configuration Management, Computer Literacy, Extract Transform Load (ETL), IT Management, Scrum Methodology, Scientific Computating, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Smartsheet, High Performance Computing, Data Assimilation, Gsuite, Jedi (game Engine) - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9c6e7c48-3259-4ddc-aaa3-88ef15e4e4b7 ## About the Role * MA/MS degree (or accepted equivalent). * 8-10 years of experience in the technical area being managed and 8+ years of IT management experience. * Demonstrated success managing engineering or scientific-software teams and coordinating complex technical project activities. * Strong Agile facilitation, backlog/dependency management, risk escalation, reporting, coaching, and stakeholder-communication skills. * Technical literacy sufficient to facilitate data-assimilation, numerical-modeling, scientific validation, and HPC-workflow discussions., * Experience with JEDI, GSI, MPAS, UFS-DA, coupled data assimilation, cycling systems, observation ingest/QC, diagnostics, or background-error/covariance methods. * CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification. * Prior work with JCSDA, NOAA/OAR, NWS, EPIC, or operational environmental-prediction programs. * Experience managing scientific experiments and software integration under constrained HPC queues, storage, data movement, and retrospective-test windows. * 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. Position summary Provides science-aware Agile facilitation for continuous JEDI-MPAS data-assimilation teams. Structures work and evidence so NOAA can distinguish scientific-method, observation, workflow, compute, integration, and validation constraints and act on the correct dependency. Roles and responsibilities * Serve as Scrum Master/facilitator for assigned continuous-DA teams and coordinate their planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and technical syncs. * Maintain connected backlog increments for observation ingest/QC, background-error and covariance development, algorithm validation, cycling stability, coupled-component readiness, diagnostics, workflow integration, and performance. * Help technical leads define hypotheses, datasets, configurations, diagnostic outputs, acceptance evidence, and readiness criteria for research and integration work. * Track dependencies on MPAS/UFS interfaces, observation processing, common diagnostics, HPC capacity, software environments, verification, and operational transition windows. * Maintain and escalate impediments, risks, actions, and decisions; connect cross-area items to the Integration Forum and program roadmap. * Prepare iteration summaries and progress inputs that accurately distinguish coded work from integrated, tested, evidenced, and accepted capability. * Coordinate with JCSDA, NWS, OAR laboratories, MPAS/UFS teams, and operational stakeholders through Government-approved channels. * Coach teams on incremental delivery, version/configuration control, reproducible cycling experiments, peer review, automated testing, and evidence-based retrospectives. * Provide workload-surge coverage to other focus areas and contribute to shared facilitation and process-improvement practices. ## Related Videos - [Your Manager Doesn’t Come with a User Manual (But You Can Totally Write One)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1495-your-manager-doesn-t-come-with-a-user-manual-but-you-can-totally-write-one) - [AI and Agility: The Dynamic Duo for Disruption](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2081-ai-and-agility-the-dynamic-duo-for-disruption) - [Engineering/Manager Pendulum: Generating compound interest on your career](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100348-engineering-manager-pendulum-generating-compound-interest-on-your-career) - [Applying Agile Principles to Incident Management ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/101-applying-agile-principles-to-incident-management) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [Decode Your People: Using PCM to Build High-Performance Teams](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100194-decode-your-people-using-pcm-to-build-high-performance-teams) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Best Coding Boot Camps in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/237-best-coding-boot-camps-in-germany) - [Top 6 Hackathons for Developers in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/263-top-6-hackathons-for-developers-in-2023) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers)