Scrum Master

ECS Corporate Services; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Corporate Services is seeking a Scrum Master to support a federal IT modernization initiative in a remote work setup. The role targets an ambitious Agile practitioner aiming to drive enterprise-scale deployments in a regulated environment.

The ideal candidate has experience in IT modernization projects, strong backlog ownership, and the ability to engage multiple stakeholders to ensure timely, quality delivery. This mid-level position offers growth toward senior leadership paths.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• Active Scrum certification or other Agile cert required.
• Proven Scrum Master experience on IT modernization projects.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning and daily stand-ups.
• Own and maintain product backlogs with clear, prioritized requirements.
• Lead requirements gathering, change management, and delivery with stakeholders.
• Support UAT planning and execution to validate functionality.
• Convert integrated master schedules into team backlogs and maintain sync.
• Contribute to monthly contractual deliverables and program reporting.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile ceremonies

Backlog management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

ECS is seeking a Scrum Master to work remotely. Everforth ECS is seeking an ambitious Scrum Master to support a federal IT modernization initiative. This position requires working within a highly regulated environment while driving efficient and effective solution deployments as part of a technical migration from a legacy system to a cloud environment. This is an excellent mid-level role for a talented Agile practitioner looking to build enterprise-scale experience while positioning themselves for advancement into senior leadership, product management, or program management roles. We're looking for someone who sees this as a strategic career step toward bigger opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement
• Own and maintain product backlogs, ensuring requirements are clear, prioritized, and actionable
• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, change management, and continuous delivery processes, while engaging stakeholders, including team leadership, product owners, business owners, end users and fellow team members to support solution design and implementation, while ensuring both quality and timely delivery
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) planning and execution to validate functionality meets user needs
• Drive daily operational activities while identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities and risksConvert integrated master schedules into team-level backlogs and maintain synchronization between both
• Contribute to monthly contractual deliverables and program reporting

Salary Range: $125,000-$150,000

General Description of Benefits

• US Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability
• Bachelor's Degree
• A minimum of 6 years of professional related experience
• At minimum, holds an active Scrum certification or other industry-related Agile certifications
• Proven track record as a Scrum Master on teams leading IT modernization projects and/or building enterprise solutions with multiple cross-functional teams, in the professional services or federal consulting industry. DHS experience strongly preferred
• Experience serving as a functional lead across multiple Agile teams with a demonstrated ability to distinguish between and recommend Agile techniques (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) based on situational needs
• Expertise engaging Product Owners and Business Owners/end users to ensure quality, accuracy and timeliness of delivery