AI Technical Scrum Master, Python Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the Technical Scrum Master and Agile Delivery Lead for an Agile team focused on delivering AI-driven information systems within a SAFe framework.

• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and team synchronization activities.

• Assist with Program Increment Planning, iteration execution, dependency coordination, risk management, and ensuring alignment with program goals.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, technical leads, and stakeholders to foster transparency and achieve predictable outcomes.

• Maintain a well-organized, prioritized, and sprint-ready backlog.

• Support the delivery of AI functionalities such as document understanding, semantic search, summarization, recommendations, intelligent automation, conversational experiences, predictive analytics, and decision-support tools.

• Coordinate efforts among product, engineering, data science, testing, security, governance, and operations teams.

• Identify, track, escalate, and assist in resolving delivery obstacles.

• Mentor team members on Agile methodologies, collaboration, self-organization, estimation, accountability, and ongoing improvement.

• Utilize Agile metrics and team feedback to enhance sprint and Program Increment execution.

• Manage dependencies, risks, constraints, decisions, and integration points across teams.

• Ensure visibility into progress, delivery health, impediments, technical challenges, and milestones.

• Contribute to release readiness and facilitate the transition of capabilities into testing, deployment, operations, and sustainment.

• Develop and maintain Python automation scripts, REST APIs, integrations, data-processing utilities, testing tools, prototypes, and internal delivery utilities on a part-time basis.

• Write clean, modular, reusable, documented, testable, and secure Python code.

• Create unit and integration tests, troubleshoot defects, review logs, and support validation.

• Engage in Git source control, pull requests, peer reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, defect resolution, and technical documentation.

• Support quality assurance, traceability, security, compliance, governance, responsible AI delivery, and operational readiness.

• Advocate for SAFe Agile maturity, continuous improvement, automation, and responsible AI-assisted tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved adjudication is required prior to onboarding.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Data Science, or a related field, OR an additional four years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

• At least four years of experience as a Scrum Master supporting enterprise software delivery teams.

• Experience as a Scrum Master in a SAFe Agile environment, including sprint execution, Program Increment Planning, dependency coordination, risk and issue management, and cross-team collaboration.

• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe delivery principles and practices.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Product Owners, engineers, architects, data scientists, testers, security personnel, and operations staff.

• Solid understanding of the software delivery lifecycle.

• Experience in supporting enterprise delivery with governance, compliance, security, quality, and documentation requirements.

• Experience with AI-enabled information systems, advanced analytics platforms, machine learning solutions, intelligent automation, or data-driven applications.

• Minimum of two years of hands-on Python software development experience.

• Proficiency in Python fundamentals, object-oriented programming, data structures, modules, exception handling, logging, package management, and maintainable reusable code.

• Experience in developing or integrating REST APIs, backend services, automation scripts, system integrations, or data-processing workflows using Python.

• Familiarity with Python testing and quality practices, unit testing, debugging, code reviews, static analysis, dependency management, and secure coding standards.

• Experience using Git-based source control, branches, pull requests, peer reviews, and modern CI/CD practices.

• Ability to translate technical backlog items into development tasks and effectively communicate risks, assumptions, dependencies, and trade-offs.

• Capability to balance Scrum Master duties with part-time Python development.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays.

• Parental Leave.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan.

• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance.

• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance.

• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability.

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach.

• Care.com annual membership.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, and ID theft protection, etc.).

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.

• Flexible benefits package.