What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Sabel Systems?
Why Sabel Systems
Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure, scalable environments. Our solutions empower programs to make faster decisions, close sustainment gaps, and meet the digital acquisition requirements.
Rather than simply proposing transformation, we implement and operate it at scale. Our method is clear: we orchestrate existing tools into a governing system of record, ensuring government ownership of infrastructure and traceable decisions. There’s no vendor lock, no proprietary baselines, and no need for ATO rebuilds during transitions.
Sabel Systems is redefining modern defense acquisition. If you seek to solve complex challenges at scale and want your work to directly accelerate military capability while reshaping the DoD’s approach to digital engineering, this is the place for you.
Complexity Simplified. Mission Amplified.
What You’ll Do
What You Bring Required
Join Sabel Systems, where your contributions drive impact, your growth is continuously supported, and your well-being is at the center of how we work. Together we can build the future with purpose. Rewarding Impact. Building Futures Together.
Compensation
Compensation will be determined in partnership with the Hiring Manager and may vary based on factors such as contract and labor category alignment, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications or licenses, and geographic location.
Sabel Systems is committed to offering all employees a competitive benefits and compensation package that is comprehensive enough to meet their goals and needs. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and one of Sabel Systems largest financial investments is our benefits program. As a valued member of the organization, employees are provided with a host of benefits to include healthcare; financial assistance in the event of illness, injury, disability, loss of work, or death; health savings accounts; retirement plans; paid time off; paid holidays; education and training program reimbursement, to name a few.
Equal Employment OpportunitySabel Systems is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business need. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind across all employment practices within our organization. Sabel Systems participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.Reasonable AccommodationSabel Systems is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and ensuring an accessible application process for all candidates. Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@sabelsystems.com for assistance.
Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure, scalable environments. Our solutions empower programs to make faster decisions, close sustainment gaps, and meet the digital acquisition requirements.
Rather than simply proposing transformation, we implement and operate it at scale. Our method is clear: we orchestrate existing tools into a governing system of record, ensuring government ownership of infrastructure and traceable decisions. There’s no vendor lock, no proprietary baselines, and no need for ATO rebuilds during transitions.
Sabel Systems is redefining modern defense acquisition. If you seek to solve complex challenges at scale and want your work to directly accelerate military capability while reshaping the DoD’s approach to digital engineering, this is the place for you.
Complexity Simplified. Mission Amplified.
What You’ll Do
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies for one or two cross-functional Agile teams on two-week sprint cycles (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews/Demos, and Retrospectives).
- Participate in Daily Scrum of Scrums (SoS) sessions and escalate team-level impediments to the Senior Scrum Master.
- Support Release Planning / Program Increment (PI) Planning workshops by preparing team inputs, identifying dependencies, and helping define sprint-level deliverables.
- Co-facilitate Release Retrospectives and help implement team-level improvements that reduce cycle time from design to deployment.
- Work with AF-PLM Product Owners and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to break down Baseline Change Requests (BCRs) and Technical Change Requests (TCRs) from the Information System Management Tool (ISMT) into Features and User Stories in Jira.
- Apply Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) criteria, confirming that software increments meet security scanning, automated testing, and acceptance criteria.
- Guide teams in story-point estimation using the AF-PLM convention (1 story point equals 1 day of development effort for a single contributor).
- Track and communicate sprint velocity and team performance using Government-provided Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr).
- Support planned sprint backlog execution per two-week cycle in line with contract Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) standards.
- Prepare sprint-level metrics (burndown, velocity, cumulative flow, and defect trends) to support bi-weekly and monthly Program Management Review (PMR) materials.
- Track Priority 1 and Priority 2 Deficiency Reports (DRs) and help ensure they are remediated before Test Readiness Reviews (TRR) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Act as a point of contact between development team members and the Product Owner and provide team-level input to Functional Requirements Boards (FRBs) and Configuration Control Boards (CCBs).
- Work alongside Systems Engineers, Lead Configurators, and Solutions Architects to align sprint goals with User-Centered Design (UCD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and automated testing practices.
- Support onboarding of new team members and help with interface integration and transition activities without disrupting ongoing operational cadences.
What You Bring Required
- US Citizen with an active Secret security clearance
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- 2 years of demonstrated experience working on Agile software delivery teams in a Scrum Master, Agile team member, or Product Owner support role.
- Active certification in at least one of the following, or the ability to obtain one within 6 months of start:
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) via Scrum Alliance
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) via Scrum.org
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) via Scaled Agile, Inc.
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- Experience working in a DoD or federal DevSecOps environment, coordinating sprint cadences, release gates, or capability drops.
- Familiarity with Product Lifecycle Management systems, specifically Siemens Teamcenter (Active Workspace, BMIDE, or workflows) and CAD/BOM digital engineering data pipelines.
- Working proficiency configuring Jira boards and backlogs, and using Confluence and Zephyr for documentation and test metrics.
- Working understanding of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Log IT Change Control Processes (CCP), ISMT change workflows, and AFLCMC governance.
- Exposure to scaling frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale in multi-team environments
- Bias for Action: Decisive. Purposeful. Agile. We move with the speed of relevance to drive impact and progress.
- Integrity: Respect. Ethics. Transparency. We do what’s right and earn lasting trust.
- Delivery Excellence: Customer-obsessed. Mission-focused. Quality-driven. We deliver innovative outcomes that exceed expectations.
Join Sabel Systems, where your contributions drive impact, your growth is continuously supported, and your well-being is at the center of how we work. Together we can build the future with purpose. Rewarding Impact. Building Futures Together.
Compensation
Compensation will be determined in partnership with the Hiring Manager and may vary based on factors such as contract and labor category alignment, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications or licenses, and geographic location.
Sabel Systems is committed to offering all employees a competitive benefits and compensation package that is comprehensive enough to meet their goals and needs. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and one of Sabel Systems largest financial investments is our benefits program. As a valued member of the organization, employees are provided with a host of benefits to include healthcare; financial assistance in the event of illness, injury, disability, loss of work, or death; health savings accounts; retirement plans; paid time off; paid holidays; education and training program reimbursement, to name a few.
Equal Employment OpportunitySabel Systems is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business need. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind across all employment practices within our organization. Sabel Systems participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.Reasonable AccommodationSabel Systems is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and ensuring an accessible application process for all candidates. Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@sabelsystems.com for assistance.