Production Product OwnerScrum Master

Leidos is looking for our next TS/SCI-cleared Production Product Owner/Scrum Master to join a high-energy team responsible for production-environment maintenance operational sustainment and data-quality improvement in support of the DIA-NDOC (National Digital Exploitation and OSINT Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort where youll contribute to mission-critical capabilities alongside a collaborative innovative and growth-oriented team.

While the majority of work is performed on-site at our customer location in Bethesda MD we offer a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work.

As the Product Owner you will work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer Release Train Engineer and government leads to decompose high-priority requirements from the product roadmap into valuable delivered solutions. You will own and prioritize the team backlog ensuring timely attention to incidents defects preventive maintenance technical debt data-quality remediation security findings and planned operational enhancements.

You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks:

• Own maintain and prioritize the Production Team backlog for production-environment sustainment data-quality improvement operational enhancements and technical debt.
• Translate operational needs incidents stakeholder requests and data-quality findings into clear epics user stories acceptance criteria and sprint-ready work.
• Balance urgent production-support requirements with planned maintenance preventive actions security remediation and long-term reliability improvements.
• Facilitate Production Team Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sprint planning daily scrums sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Track production incidents recurring defects and root-cause corrective actions to ensure they are prioritized assigned and completed.
• Coordinate data-quality remediation activities including issue intake validation criteria ownership prioritization status reporting and closure verification.
• Identify and manage dependencies among the Production Team application-development teams Platform Team CI/CD Team infrastructure/OS team database team cybersecurity personnel and data owners.
• Help remove impediments affecting Production Platform and CI/CD teams escalating cross-team dependencies decisions resource constraints and operational risks when necessary.

• Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to include demos Sprint Retrospective and PI Planning.

• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement.

To be successful in this role you need the following (required qualifications):

Youre enthusiastic collaborative and comfortable working with teammates across a range of technical backgrounds. You also meet the following qualifications:

• BS in Engineering Computer Science Systems Engineering or related field and 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
• Experience managing and prioritizing a backlog that includes a mix of production incidents and operational defects preventive maintenance and technical debt environment changes and release-support activities data-quality remediation and validation monitoring and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with production operations and support processes including incident management problem management root-cause analysis change management release coordination service restoration and post-incident corrective actions.
• Familiarity with data-quality management concepts including data validation completeness accuracy timeliness consistency reconciliation defect tracking and remediation workflows.
• Ability to translate operational needs into clear epics features user stories acceptance criteria priorities and definitions of done.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sprint planning daily scrums sprint reviews retrospectives and cross-team dependency discussions.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with developers production support personnel the Platform Team the CI/CD Team infrastructure teams cybersecurity personnel data owners and mission stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation prioritization stakeholder management written communication and organizational skills.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• Experience serving as a Scrum Master for multiple technical teams or a team-of-teams delivery structure.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes Elastic Redis CI/CD tooling GitOps infrastructure automation or cloud-native application operations.
• Experience with observability tools and practices including dashboards metrics logs alerting service-level indicators and service-level objectives.
• Experience with data-governance data-quality master-data ETL/ELT data reconciliation or data lineage activities.
• Experience coordinating incident response change advisory processes release readiness and operational readiness reviews
• Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certification such as CSPO PSPO CSM PSM SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager SAFe Scrum Master or equivalent demonstrated experience.

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