Remote Project Manager & Scrum Master (Public Trust)

cFocus Software Incorporated; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

cFocus Software seeks a Project Manager / Scrum Master to join our program supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This position is remote and requires Public Trust Clearance. You will lead Agile delivery across multiple teams, facilitate ceremonies, manage scope, schedule, costs, and risks, and report to stakeholders.

DHS experience and PMP/CSM or equivalent credentials are preferred. Experience with GIS, cloud, and federal collaboration tools; strong leadership and communication

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, CS, Geography or related field.
• 5+ years of project/program delivery, including Agile software, data, cloud, geospatial, or enterprise IT teams.
• At least 3 years as Scrum Master, Agile delivery lead, or equivalent facilitator.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, costs, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies, backlog management, and coordinating multiple teams.
• Advanced experience with Jira and Confluence; familiarity with GitLab and federal tools.
• Ability to manage complex technical work involving applications, COTS, data, cloud, security, testing, and operations.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, analytical, and executive-communication skills.
• Ability to satisfy DHS suitability, background checks, and security requirements.
• Active PMP, CSM/PSM/PMI-ACP/SAFe Scrum Master or comparable Agile credential.
• Experience with DHS or federal agencies and geospatial / ESRI GIS experience.
• Experience with enterprise GIS, ArcGIS, AWS/cloud environments.
• Experience with governance, CPIC, PPBE, security authorization, and program reviews.
• Experience managing mixed FFP and T&M work, burn-rate forecasting, staffing, and multi-vendor coordination.

Responsibilities

• Provide programmatic support for managing large-scale enterprise geospatial data, applications, information sharing, and situational-awareness capabilities.
• Plan and manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, milestones, and deliverables from design through operations.
• Develop governance approaches and repeatable processes for documenting and implementing DHS requirements.
• Prioritize requirements and allocate resources based on mission value, dependencies, risk, and schedule.
• Coordinate engineering, data, infrastructure, security, operations, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Manage product and software-delivery for Custom and COTS teams; coach teams in Agile practices and Scrum values.
• Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and milestones.
• Maintain an ordered backlog aligned with goals and team capacity.
• Identify and remove impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, and escalate organizational issues.
• Use metrics and feedback to improve efficiency, predictability, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Provide motivation, coaching, and conflict-resolution while protecting teams from disruption.
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders and document in Jira; assess alignment with architectures.
• Ensure epics, features, stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria are clear and traceable.
• Maintain integrated schedule covering sprints, releases, and milestones.
• Track risks; document impact and mitigation in Risk Registry; escalate as needed.
• Coordinate staffing, onboarding, and surge planning; manage DHS program controls.

Skills

Project management

Scrum Master

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Facilitation

Jira

Confluence

Geospatial data

Federal program experience

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT/CS/Geography or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Job description

cFocus Software seeks a Project Manager / Scrum Master to join our program supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This position is remote and requires Public Trust Clearance. You will lead Agile delivery across multiple teams, facilitate ceremonies, manage scope, schedule, costs, and risks, and report to stakeholders.

DHS experience and PMP/CSM or equivalent credentials are preferred. Experience with GIS, cloud, and federal collaboration tools; strong leadership and communication