Senior Level Scrum Master

ECS Corporate Services; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS, in Arlington, VA, seeks a Senior Scrum Master to work remotely on a federal IT modernization initiative. The role requires applying Scrum and Kanban to the Software Delivery Lifecycle in a highly regulated environment, driving efficient deployments during a complex migration to the cloud.

The ideal candidate will facilitate Agile events, coach stakeholders, and guide teams toward continuous delivery with strong metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• U.S. citizen with ability to obtain Public Trust suitability.
• Minimum of 11 years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile events including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, with an ability to apply both Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Lead technical delivery teams through SDLC, including design, development, quality assurance, security, deployment, and sustainment
• Oversee the product backlog, ensuring all backlog items meet Scrum practices for intake, definition of ready, refinement, and definition of done
• Coach the team to ensure effective requirements gathering, analysis, change management, and continuous delivery with stakeholders
• Drive customer feedback through UAT, customer demos, and product owner-led requirements vetting
• Collect and analyze Agile metrics to coach the team toward continuous improvement
• Convert integrated master schedules into team-level backlogs and maintain synchronization
• Contribute to monthly contractual deliverables and program reporting

Skills

Scrum

Kanban

Agile metrics

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to work remotely. Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior 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. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience in effectively applying both Scrum and Kanban methodologies to the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC). This is an excellent role for a talented Agile practitioner looking to further enterprise-scale experience while positioning themselves for continued advancement into senior leadership, product management, or program management roles. We're looking for an experienced professional skilled at driving Agile enablement and fostering collaboration across various stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile events including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, with an ability to apply both Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Lead technical delivery teams through Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC), including design, development, quality assurance, security, deployment, and sustainment
• Oversee the product backlog, ensuring all product backlog items meet Scrum best practices for intake, definition of ready, refinement completeness and definition of done
• Coach the team to ensure effective requirements gathering, analysis, change management, and continuous delivery processes, while engaging stakeholders, including team leadership, business owners, product owners, tech leads, quality assurance team, security leads, business owners, end users and fellow team members to support solution design and implementation, while ensuring both quality and timely delivery
• Drive customer feedback through concepts like UAT, customer demos, and product owner-led requirements vetting
• Ability to collect and analyze Agile metrics, leveraging insights to coach the team towards continuous improvement
• Convert integrated master schedules into team-level backlogs and maintain synchronization between both
• Contribute to monthly contractual deliverables and program reporting

Salary

Salary Range: $135,000-$165,000

General Description of Benefits

• US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability
• Bachelor's Degree
• A minimum of 11 years of relevant professional experience