Product Owner/Scrum Master

Accenture Federal Services seeks an Agile practitioner to lead as a combined Product Owner and Scrum Master. This onsite role in Colorado Springs partners with a Government Product Owner and the Scrum team to shape the Product Backlog, facilitate key Agile ceremonies, address blockers, and support delivery aligned to mission objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between mission partners, stakeholders, and the Scrum team, ensuring priorities, needs, and expected outcomes are clearly understood and communicated.
• Own and continuously refine the Product Backlog, maintaining well-structured user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and priorities tied to mission objectives.
• Translate mission and technical requirements into clear, actionable backlog items, following Agile best practices and considering the team’s capacity.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, and stakeholders to deliver capabilities that address operational needs and strengthen mission outcomes.
• Facilitate Scrum and Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Identify and remove impediments to maintain flow and predictability by managing cross-team dependencies and escalating risks or issues as needed.
• Balance stakeholder priorities, team capacity, technical constraints, and external dependencies to maximize value delivered each sprint and increment.
• Protect committed sprint work by helping manage unplanned requests and ensuring priority changes are assessed and incorporated through controlled, transparent processes.
• Provide timely feedback on demonstrations, prototypes, and completed work to ensure alignment to acceptance criteria and deployment readiness.
• Promote accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement by tracking delivery progress, risks, and dependencies and communicating status and impacts to stakeholders.
• Define success criteria and evaluate delivered outcomes against mission and user expectations.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a product owner, scrum master, requirements analyst, or related Agile delivery role.
• 2+ years of experience in product and/or requirements management, including translating high-level stakeholder or mission needs into prioritized product features, user stories, and actionable backlog items.
• 2+ years of experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs, balancing stakeholder priorities, dependencies, team capacity, and delivery objectives.
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud, DevSecOps Principles, and/or software development and automation practices.
• 2+ years of experience with Agile lifecycle and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab, or Azure DevOps.
• 2+ years of experience working in complex, cross-functional environments with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.

Technologies

• AWS Cloud
• DevSecOps
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Gitlab
• Azure DevOps

Bonus Considerations

• Experience working on government or military mission critical programs.
• Familiarity with technical concepts such as APIs, data flows, and system integration.
• Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, CSPO, SAFe POPM, or equivalent Agile certification (preferred).
• Experience supporting DevSecOps or cloud-native development environments.

Security Clearance

• Must have an active TS security clearance; active TS/SCI preferred.

Role Details

Location: Colorado Springs, CO (onsite)

Compensation: USD 100,200 to 203,400 per year

Experience: 5+ years