Remote Scrum Master for Federal Agile Delivery

ICF; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 81,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF's Digital Modernization Division is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate Agile delivery for a large federal data and analytics modernization program. Remote work, with occasional client-site meetings in Washington, DC, and a strong focus on backlog refinement, sprint planning, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities include ensuring Definition of Ready, guiding SAFe/Agile practices, and coordinating with product, engineering, security, and governance teams to deliver measurable

Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Agile Delivery, or related field; or a high school diploma with four 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 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 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

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organization

Collaboration

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Project Management

High school diploma with 4 years of relevant experience

Master's degree substitution for experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Miro

Job description

ICF's Digital Modernization Division is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate Agile delivery for a large federal data and analytics modernization program. Remote work, with occasional client-site meetings in Washington, DC, and a strong focus on backlog refinement, sprint planning, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities include ensuring Definition of Ready, guiding SAFe/Agile practices, and coordinating with product, engineering, security, and governance teams to deliver measurable