Remote Scrum Master for Federal Agile Delivery

ICF; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 81,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF seeks a skilled Scrum Master to accelerate Agile delivery for a federal data modernization program. You will coordinate backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and releases while ensuring readiness and dependency management.

The role requires collaboration with product, engineering, security, governance, and customers, plus documenting decisions and risks to support continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
• Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.
• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Agile Delivery, or related field; or a high school diploma with four (4) years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience aligned to the responsibilities of this role.
• Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates Agile delivery flow for assigned delivery streams by coordinating backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, blocker removal, dependency management, team metrics, and release coordination.
• Ensures stories meet Definition of Ready before sprint commitment and that cross-team issues are surfaced quickly through Product Operations.
• Supports Functional Leads and Domain Product Managers while remaining independent enough to identify delivery risks, weak backlog readiness, and unresolved dependencies.
• Apply Scrum/Agile delivery, sprint planning, refinement facilitation, dependency management, delivery metrics, blockers/escalation, release coordination, and SAFe/Agile experience preferred to support role delivery.
• Collaborate with relevant product, engineering, security, governance, quality, and customer-facing stakeholders as required by the role.
• Document work products, decisions, risks, and delivery evidence to support traceability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum ceremonies

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in PM or related field

High school diploma with 4 years relevant experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Miro

Job description

ICF seeks a skilled Scrum Master to accelerate Agile delivery for a federal data modernization program. You will coordinate backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and releases while ensuring readiness and dependency management.

The role requires collaboration with product, engineering, security, governance, and customers, plus documenting decisions and risks to support continuous improvement.