Production Product Owner/Scrum Master

Leidos is hiring a TS/SCI-cleared Production Product Owner/Scrum Master to support the DIA-NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) for the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort. This onsite role in Bethesda, MD helps maintain production-environment capabilities, improve data quality, and strengthen operational sustainment for mission-critical systems.

In this hybrid Product Owner and Scrum Master position, you will own the Production Team backlog, convert operational needs into sprint-ready work, and facilitate Agile and SAFe ceremonies. You will also coordinate across multiple teams to keep production running, resolve recurring issues, manage dependencies, and drive continuous improvement through coaching and delivery execution.

What you’ll do

• 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 epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-ready tasks.
• Balance urgent production support with planned activities such as maintenance, preventive actions, security remediation, and reliability improvements.
• Facilitate Production Team Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track production incidents and recurring defects, ensure root-cause corrective actions are prioritized, assigned, and completed.
• Coordinate data-quality remediation: intake, validation criteria, ownership, prioritization, status reporting, and closure verification.
• Identify and manage dependencies across the Production Team, application-development teams, Platform Team, CI/CD Team, infrastructure/OS team, database team, cybersecurity personnel, and data owners.
• Remove impediments impacting Production, Platform, and CI/CD teams, escalating cross-team dependencies, decisions, resource constraints, and operational risks when needed.
• Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews with demos, Sprint Retrospective, and PI Planning.
• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles to support continuous improvement.
• Work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, and government leads to decompose high-priority requirements from the product roadmap into delivered solutions.
• Ensure timely backlog attention across incidents, defects, preventive maintenance, technical debt, data-quality remediation, security findings, and planned operational enhancements.

What you’ll bring

• Masters degree (or BS in Engineering/Computer Science/Systems Engineering or related field) with 10+ years (Masters) or 12+ years (BS) of relevant experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain/maintain TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
• Experience managing and prioritizing a backlog covering 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: data validation, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, reconciliation, defect tracking, and remediation workflows.
• Ability to translate operational needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, and definitions of done.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and cross-team dependency discussions.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with developers, production support personnel, Platform Team, CI/CD Team, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity personnel, data owners, and mission stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, prioritization, stakeholder management, written communication, and organizational skills.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

Nice to have

• Scrum Master experience for multiple technical teams or team-of-teams delivery structures
• 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

Salary range: USD 131,300 - 237,350 per year • Location: Bethesda, MD (onsite) • Posting date: October 27, 2026