Senior Level Scrum Master

ECS Federal • ARLINGTON, VA

10d • Remote

About The Position

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support a federal IT modernization initiative. The role works within a highly regulated environment, helping drive efficient and effective solution deployments during a technical migration from a legacy system to a cloud environment. The successful candidate will apply Scrum and Kanban methodologies across the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC), lead technical delivery teams, promote collaboration among stakeholder groups, and foster Agile enablement. This role offers the opportunity to build enterprise-scale experience and may support future advancement into senior leadership, product management, or program management roles.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability.
• Bachelor's degree.
• At least 11 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience applying Scrum and Kanban methodologies to the Software Delivery Lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile events, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Lead technical delivery teams through the SDLC, including design, development, quality assurance, security, deployment, and sustainment.
• Oversee the product backlog and ensure product backlog items meet Scrum best practices for intake, definition of ready, refinement completeness, and definition of done.
• Coach the team in requirements gathering, analysis, change management, and continuous delivery processes.
• Engage team leadership, business owners, product owners, tech leads, quality assurance teams, security leads, end users, and other team members to support solution design and implementation and ensure quality and timely delivery.
• Drive customer feedback through activities such as user acceptance testing (UAT), customer demonstrations, and product-owner-led requirements vetting.
• Collect and analyze Agile metrics and use insights to coach the team toward continuous improvement.
• Convert integrated master schedules into team-level backlogs and maintain synchronization between them.
• Contribute to monthly contractual deliverables and program reporting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior