Senior Product Owner / Scrum Master

The Senior Product Owner / Scrum Master at Karsun Solutions, LLC will support Agile software delivery for a large-scale federal IT modernization program. In this dual role, you will act as both Product Owner and Scrum Master for an Agile development team, translating business and customer needs into actionable requirements while helping the team deliver high-quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as both Product Owner and Scrum Master for an Agile development team, balancing product direction, backlog ownership, and effective Agile execution.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders, business users, and program leadership to understand business needs, gather requirements, and translate them into features, capabilities, and user stories.
• Own and manage the team’s product backlog, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, appropriately prioritized, and aligned to program objectives and customer priorities.
• Develop, refine, and maintain user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and supporting documentation to ensure requirements are actionable for the development team.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions and work with technical leads, architects, developers, and testers to ensure stories are sufficiently elaborated for implementation.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and other team-level coordination activities.
• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning, including preparation of features and stories, capacity planning, dependency identification, risk management, and alignment of team commitments to program objectives.
• Monitor sprint execution and delivery progress, identify impediments and risks, facilitate resolution, and proactively communicate potential impacts to program leadership and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with other Product Owners, Scrum Masters, technical leads, and cross-functional teams to manage dependencies, align priorities, and support integrated program delivery.
• Partner with development and testing teams to ensure delivered functionality meets defined acceptance criteria, quality expectations, and customer requirements.
• Support backlog management and prioritization of technical debt, defects, enhancements, and modernization initiatives.
• Use Jira and Confluence to maintain product backlogs, sprint plans, requirements documentation, delivery metrics, and team collaboration artifacts.
• Track and communicate Agile delivery metrics, including sprint predictability, velocity, team capacity, backlog health, defect trends, and PI objective achievement.
• Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives, process optimization, Agile coaching, and adoption of effective engineering and delivery practices.
• Support adoption of AI-assisted tools and practices to improve requirements development, user story elaboration, documentation, backlog management, and delivery efficiency.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and typically 8–10 years of related experience in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Scrum Master responsibilities, Agile delivery, or IT project delivery.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Product Owner and/or Scrum Master for enterprise software development teams using Agile methodologies.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles, Scrum practices, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), including team-level execution and Program Increment planning.
• Proven experience managing product backlogs, defining and prioritizing features and user stories, and developing clear, measurable acceptance criteria.
• Experience translating complex business and stakeholder requirements into actionable functional requirements, user stories, and deliverable work items.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage sprint execution, identify and resolve impediments, and drive continuous improvement.
• Experience working with cross-functional software development teams, including developers, QA engineers, business analysts, UX/UI designers, and technical architects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with government customers, business stakeholders, technical teams, and program leadership.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for Agile project management, backlog administration, requirements documentation, and delivery reporting.
• Ability to analyze Agile delivery metrics, identify trends, and use data to improve delivery predictability and overall execution.
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate dependencies, and operate effectively in a dynamic, multi-team delivery environment.
• Availability during core business hours of 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Eastern Time.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Moderate Risk Background Investigation (MBI), Tier 2.
• Must reside in District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia.

Location

Herndon, VA (onsite)

Technology Stack

• Jira
• Confluence
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Compensation

The proposed salary range for this role is $****** to $******* USD.