Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master - Team 1 - Core MIRS (Senior)

DecisionPoint seeks an Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master to lead Agile execution for Team 1 supporting Core MIRS capabilities under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role facilitates planning, daily coordination, backlog readiness, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives while maintaining visibility into delivery commitments, impediments, dependencies, risks, and performance.

The Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master works closely with Government stakeholders, product owners, mission liaisons, architects, developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, trainers, and other delivery teams. The position coordinates weekly demonstrations and prepares required Development Sprint Plans, Sprint Summary Reports, delivery metrics, and related program artifacts.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

The Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master will:

Lead Agile delivery activities for Team 1 supporting Core MIRS software capabilities.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily coordination meetings, backlog-refinement sessions, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Establish and maintain a predictable Agile delivery cadence aligned with Government priorities and approved program schedules.
• Partner with product owners and mission stakeholders to ensure the backlog is prioritized, refined, and ready for sprint planning.
• Help the team develop realistic sprint goals and commitments based on priorities, dependencies, capacity, and delivery risks.
• Track sprint commitments, progress, scope changes, impediments, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.
• Identify and escalate delivery impediments and coordinate their resolution with technical leads, Government stakeholders, and supporting teams.
• Manage cross-team dependencies involving architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, training, data, interfaces, releases, and mission stakeholders.
• Coordinate weekly demonstrations and ensure delivered capabilities are ready for Government review and feedback.
• Capture demonstration feedback, decisions, and resulting backlog or action-item updates.
• Prepare, maintain, and submit Development Sprint Plans in accordance with program requirements.
• Prepare Sprint Summary Reports documenting accomplishments, incomplete work, test results, demonstrations, feedback, risks, dependencies, and planned follow-up.
• Track and analyze delivery metrics, including sprint predictability, throughput, cycle time, work aging, impediments, defects, and commitment completion.
• Use delivery data to identify trends, facilitate improvement discussions, and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate with requirements analysts to ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are clear, testable, traceable, and ready for implementation.
• Coordinate with developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, and release teams to support secure development, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Support backlog prioritization and the expedited handling of urgent defects or security-related changes.
• Facilitate communication among Team 1, other Agile teams, program leadership, and Government representatives.
• Maintain Agile boards, delivery dashboards, action logs, decision records, and related program artifacts in approved tools.
• Support release planning, release-readiness reviews, user acceptance activities, and operational-transition coordination.
• Coach team members and stakeholders on effective Agile practices, collaboration, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Protect the team's delivery focus while ensuring that critical stakeholder needs and program dependencies are addressed.
• Provide delivery status, forecasts, risks, and performance information for program reporting and governance activities.
• Support continuous improvement of Agile delivery processes across the ENLIST program.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must possess all the following:

• An active Secret clearance or higher.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
• At least ten years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience facilitating Agile software-delivery teams.
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple technical teams or workstreams.
• Experience facilitating sprint planning, daily coordination, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Experience tracking sprint commitments, impediments, risks, dependencies, actions, and delivery metrics.
• Experience working with product owners, technical leads, developers, testers, and Government or business stakeholders.
• Ability to prepare clear sprint plans, delivery summaries, metrics, status reports, and executive-level briefings.
• Ability to identify delivery risks and impediments, coordinate resolution, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, leadership, conflict-resolution, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain delivery discipline in a complex, cross-functional software environment.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred:

• A Scrum or Agile certification, such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Release Train Engineer, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or an equivalent credential.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.
• Experience leading Agile delivery for mission-critical, regulated, or high-availability information systems.
• Experience supporting MIRS, accession-processing, military personnel-processing, or comparable mission workflows.
• Experience preparing formal sprint plans, sprint summary reports, Government demonstrations, and contract-delivery artifacts.
• Experience coordinating delivery across software, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, data, training, and operations teams.
• Experience with Agile and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or comparable platforms.
• Experience working in Agile, DevSecOps, or secure software-development environments.
• Familiarity with requirements traceability, user acceptance testing, release management, configuration management, and continuous integration/continuous delivery practices.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
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