Scrum Master (Remote)

Currently, RG is looking to hire a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is an exempt customer-facing business professional that provides a variety of services directly related to the customer's overarching mission. This role is critical to shaping and optimizing enterprise-level Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) strategies, ensuring alignment with Department of Defense (DoD) objectives and Navy readiness goals.

Additionally, the Scrum Master will:

• Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies-including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives-to promote continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain the sprint cadence, ensuring the team achieves consistent velocity and delivers reliable outcomes.
• Identify and remove obstacles that impede team progress, escalating issues as appropriate to ensure timely resolution.
• Coordinate activities across data engineering, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning teams to enable effective cross-functional integration.
• Monitor and report on comprehensive sprint metrics such as velocity, burndown, and team capacity to support data-driven decision-making.
• Protect the team from external distractions while maintaining strong alignment with overarching program objectives.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members and stakeholders, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and best practices.
• Manage interdependencies among technical tracks and facilitate the resolution of blockers that span multiple teams.
• Lead stakeholder demonstration sessions that highlight incremental program progress and foster stakeholder engagement.
• Coordinate sprint-related activities in alignment with overall program and project management requirements.
• Ensure that sprint outcomes support scheduled project milestones and comply with Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables.
• Foster transparency by implementing visual management tools and promoting clear, consistent communication of progress.
• Manage and maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and addressed proactively.
• Establish a regular reporting cadence to keep stakeholders informed of project status, risks, and accomplishments.
• Oversee the identification, refinement, and management of both product and sprint backlogs to ensure alignment with team priorities and capacity.
• Track daily sprint progress and collaborate on scheduling to ensure alignment with ongoing maintenance and operational activities.

Required Skills

The Scrum Master must be an expert agile practitioner with specific experience facilitating data science teams. This individual brings mature facilitation skills and proven ability to improve team performance through disciplined agile practices.

Required Experience

To be successful in this role, all candidates must meet the below qualifications to be considered.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field
• 7+ years of agile project management experience
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification
• Direct experience facilitating data science or analytics projects
• Proven track record of improving team velocity and delivery quality
• Advanced knowledge of sprint planning techniques and agile metrics
• Experience identifying and removing complex impediments across technical domains
• Exceptional facilitation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Demonstrated experience with agile project management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Ability to operate effectively in remote/hybrid team environments
• Current NACI or ability to obtain

Bring the WOW Factor

In addition to our core requirements that are an absolute must for this role, we want to highlight some of the qualifications that we consider to "Bring the WOW Factor". Below are some of those "WOW Factors" that we would love to have, but that are not considered hard requirements to do the job.

• Advanced agile certifications (CSP, PSM II, SAFe SPC, etc.)
• Experience with Department of Defense (DoD) or Navy environments
• Multiple years supporting data engineering, NLP, or machine learning teams
• Background in software development or data engineering
• Familiarity with Navy maintenance systems or depot operations
• Experience scaling agile practices across distributed teams
• Track record of coaching organizations through agile transformations
• Experience integrating agile with earned value management requirements

Physical Requirements & Disclaimer

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required, only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met. EOE, including disability/vets