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.