Lead Scrum Master

Job ID: 2512163

Location: REMOTE WORK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-12-08

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Bus Proc Analyst

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Lead Scrum Master to join our team and begin an exciting and challenging career.

This position is contingent upon award of the contract.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts and facilitates all scrum ceremonies – daily standup, sprint planning, release planning, grooming sessions, sprint retrospectives, and sprint reviews
• Works with client to create, review, and adjudicate Program Increment planning
• Work with scrum team to execute all objectives and epics in the Program Increment
• Developing detailed documentation of client needs
• Leads and facilitates grooming session with clients to gather, analyze, and decompose both functional and non-functional requirements
• Creating detailed user stories, including acceptance criteria, mockups (if required), and any additional information to assist development
• When scope changes occur mid-sprint or during a release cycle, works with Project Managers on adjustments and message to the clients
• Interacts with Office of Information Technology (OIT) PMs and their customers.
• Develops and delivers business processes for requirements
• Performs requirements analysis to determine feasibility and to decompose requirements to concise and testable user stories
• Develops and adheres to Definition-of-Ready and Definition-of-Done established by the scrum team
• Use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools to include Visual Studio, Azure Devops and GIT.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• BS Computer Science and minimum 9 years’ software experience. (Four additional years of professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Ability to pass background check and maintain status for contract that requires US citizenship.
• Business analyst with a minimum of 5 years of experience facilitating meetings with stakeholders to develop business and technical requirements
• Experience in leading and facilitating all scrum ceremonies
• Experience with SAFe and Program Increment planning and execution
• Strong time management to ensure ceremonies are done efficiently and within time box
• Must be resourceful in removing scrum team roadblocks
• Servant leadership mentality to drive discussion and input from all members of the scrum team
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification is a plus
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus
• Experience defining software requirements for complex products using the Agile software delivery methodology
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to non-technical team members and clients
• Candidate must be willing to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple assignments. Must actively support, enforce, and contribute to the Agile practices adopted by the development team
• Must have experience with enterprise web applications
• Experience with 508 compliance
• May provide end-user support to the field
• Familiarity with Microsoft .NET environment
• Excellent written and oral communications skills and able to work in a team which consists developers with different skillsets
  
  

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.