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The Opportunity:
CACI is looking for a Technical Scrum Master (Infrastructure & Cybersecurity) to lead a Technical Architecture agile team to join our team supporting an important Department of Justice agency in the National Capital Region. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a team responsible for the ongoing design, implementation, monitoring, and upkeep of the technical architecture of enterprise application systems. The Technical Scrum Master will lead an agile team of PeopleSoft System Administrators, DBA’s, Cyber Security Engineers, Cloud Engineers and Dev Sec Op Engineers.
Candidates should have the following:
Strong verbal and written communications skills.
Agile Methodology - Advanced
Effective Written Communication - Advanced
Oral Communications - Advanced
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Scrum Master for infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams to support secure solution delivery.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives for highly technical teams.
- Partner with Infrastructure Engineers, Cybersecurity Engineers, ISSOs, Enterprise Architects, and Product Owners to prioritize and deliver infrastructure modernization and security initiatives.
- Drive alignment between sprint objectives, operational priorities, cybersecurity requirements, and program milestones.
- Manage technical backlogs, dependencies, risks, and impediments across infrastructure, cloud, networking, identity management, and cybersecurity workstreams.
- Ensure security, compliance, and operational requirements are incorporated into user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint planning activities.
- Support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, including tracking remediation efforts, continuous monitoring requirements, POA&M actions, and security assessment findings.
- Collaborate with security teams to prepare for audits, assessments, penetration testing activities, and compliance reviews.
- Facilitate cross-team coordination to address vulnerabilities, technical debt, system upgrades, platform patching, and security remediation activities.
- Monitor team velocity, sprint metrics, service delivery objectives, and cybersecurity deliverables to ensure successful execution.
- Support infrastructure and cybersecurity project planning, roadmap development, and stakeholder communications.
- Utilize Jira and Confluence and related tools to manage Agile delivery, reporting, and compliance activities.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Active Top Secret (TS) Clearance
- Ability to work onsite at the client location in Washington, DC, five days per week.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience serving as a Scrum Master
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies.
- Experience managing technical backlogs, user stories, dependencies, risks, and sprint deliverables using Jira and Confluence.
- Thorough understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and exposure to Agile or iterative SDLCs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience developing technical and operational documentation.
Desired:
Experience supporting ATO packages within federal environments.
- Experience creating, updating, and maintaining cybersecurity documentation including SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, Security Categorization documents, and Architecture Diagrams.
- Understanding of cloud environments such as AWS GovCloud, or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, patch management, identity and access management, and continuous monitoring practices.
- Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master) preferred.
- Agile Scrum Project Management - Advanced
What You Can Expect:
A culture of integrity.
At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.
An environment of trust.
CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.
A focus on continuous growth.
Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.
Pay Range :
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$72,700 - $149,200The Opportunity:
CACI is looking for a Technical Scrum Master (Infrastructure & Cybersecurity) to lead a Technical Architecture agile team to join our team supporting an important Department of Justice agency in the National Capital Region. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a team responsible for the ongoing design, implementation, monitoring, and upkeep of the technical architecture of enterprise application systems. The Technical Scrum Master will lead an agile team of PeopleSoft System Administrators, DBA’s, Cyber Security Engineers, Cloud Engineers and Dev Sec Op Engineers.
Candidates should have the following:
Strong verbal and written communications skills.
Agile Methodology - Advanced
Effective Written Communication - Advanced
Oral Communications - Advanced
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Scrum Master for infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams to support secure solution delivery.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives for highly technical teams.
- Partner with Infrastructure Engineers, Cybersecurity Engineers, ISSOs, Enterprise Architects, and Product Owners to prioritize and deliver infrastructure modernization and security initiatives.
- Drive alignment between sprint objectives, operational priorities, cybersecurity requirements, and program milestones.
- Manage technical backlogs, dependencies, risks, and impediments across infrastructure, cloud, networking, identity management, and cybersecurity workstreams.
- Ensure security, compliance, and operational requirements are incorporated into user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint planning activities.
- Support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, including tracking remediation efforts, continuous monitoring requirements, POA&M actions, and security assessment findings.
- Collaborate with security teams to prepare for audits, assessments, penetration testing activities, and compliance reviews.
- Facilitate cross-team coordination to address vulnerabilities, technical debt, system upgrades, platform patching, and security remediation activities.
- Monitor team velocity, sprint metrics, service delivery objectives, and cybersecurity deliverables to ensure successful execution.
- Support infrastructure and cybersecurity project planning, roadmap development, and stakeholder communications.
- Utilize Jira and Confluence and related tools to manage Agile delivery, reporting, and compliance activities.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Active Top Secret (TS) Clearance
- Ability to work onsite at the client location in Washington, DC, five days per week.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience serving as a Scrum Master
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies.
- Experience managing technical backlogs, user stories, dependencies, risks, and sprint deliverables using Jira and Confluence.
- Thorough understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and exposure to Agile or iterative SDLCs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience developing technical and operational documentation.
Desired:
Experience supporting ATO packages within federal environments.
- Experience creating, updating, and maintaining cybersecurity documentation including SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, Security Categorization documents, and Architecture Diagrams.
- Understanding of cloud environments such as AWS GovCloud, or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, patch management, identity and access management, and continuous monitoring practices.
- Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master) preferred.
- Agile Scrum Project Management - Advanced
What You Can Expect:
A culture of integrity.
At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.
An environment of trust.
CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.
A focus on continuous growth.
Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.
Pay Range :
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in lead scrum master jobs.
- CSM or PSM certification required, with SAFe SPC or RTE preferred for enterprise roles
- 5 or more years of scrum master experience with at least 2 years at a lead or senior level
- Demonstrated experience facilitating PI Planning and working within a SAFe or LeSS environment
- Proficiency with agile project tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Experience coaching or mentoring other scrum masters or agile practitioners
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, business, or a related field
Tips for Your Lead Scrum Master Job Search
Tailor your resume to scaled frameworks
Hiring managers for lead scrum master roles scan for SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus experience before anything else. Call out the specific framework, the number of teams you coordinated, and any PI Planning or ART involvement you owned directly.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists lead scrum master openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by org size to find the right scope
A lead scrum master role at a 50-person startup means hands-on delivery work, while the same title at a Fortune 500 often means coaching other scrum masters. Reading the job description for team count and reporting structure tells you which you're getting.
Prepare a coaching story for behavioral questions
Interviewers at the lead level almost always ask how you've grown junior scrum masters or shifted a resistant team's mindset. Have one clear story ready that shows the before state, your specific intervention, and a measurable outcome.
Highlight impediment removal at the program level
Entry-level scrum master experience focuses on team-level ceremonies. To stand out for lead roles, your resume and interview answers need examples of removing cross-team blockers, working with product management, or influencing engineering architecture decisions.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Lead scrum master offers vary widely in what the role actually owns. Before accepting, clarify whether you'll manage other scrum masters, hold budget authority, or report to delivery leadership, since those factors affect your career trajectory more than starting pay.
Lead Scrum Master Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most lead scrum masters?
Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and Raytheon are hiring the most lead scrum masters right now, with openings concentrated in Virginia, District of Columbia, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is highest at large financial services firms, healthcare systems, and enterprise software companies running scaled agile transformations.
How many lead scrum master jobs are remote?
About 62% of lead scrum master openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making this one of the more remote-accessible senior agile roles. Fully distributed arrangements are most common in program-level coaching and RTE positions, while roles that require hands-on team facilitation or PI Planning support tend to expect at least occasional on-site presence.
How do you become a lead scrum master?
Start by earning a foundational certification like CSM or PSM, then accumulate several years of scrum master experience across multiple teams or product lines. Progress to scaled frameworks by getting SAFe or LeSS certified and taking on cross-team responsibilities such as running Scrum of Scrums or supporting release trains. Build a record of coaching other practitioners and influencing delivery at the program level before targeting lead roles.
Can you get a lead scrum master job without much experience?
Moving directly into a lead scrum master title with no prior scrum master experience is rare, but you can accelerate the path by earning a recognized certification, volunteering to coordinate across teams in your current role, and documenting coaching or mentoring contributions. Some organizations will hire into a lead role from adjacent delivery positions like project manager or agile coach if your scaled framework knowledge is strong.
What does the lead scrum master interview process look like?
Most processes start with a recruiter screen focused on your certification background and years of experience, followed by a behavioral interview with a delivery director or agile practice lead that probes how you've handled cross-team impediments and resistant stakeholders. A final round typically includes a scenario or case study where you're asked to design a scaled agile approach for a hypothetical program, and sometimes a panel conversation with engineering or product leadership.
Where can I find and apply to lead scrum master jobs?
You can find and apply to lead scrum master jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred work arrangement, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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