Senior Scrum Master - Remote | Enterprise IT Modernization

ECS; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support a federal IT modernization initiative. The role is remote and requires guiding Scrum and Kanban practices across SDLC, ensuring timely delivery in a regulated environment.

You will coach multiple teams, manage backlogs, track Agile metrics, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver design, development, QA, security, and deployment milestones.

Qualifications

• US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• A 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 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
• 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

Skills

Scrum Master

Kanban

Agile coaching

Stakeholder management

Agile metrics

Jira/Confluence

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Oracle

SN Agile Dev 2.0/CWM

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Scrum Master to support a federal IT modernization initiative. The role is remote and requires guiding Scrum and Kanban practices across SDLC, ensuring timely delivery in a regulated environment.

You will coach multiple teams, manage backlogs, track Agile metrics, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver design, development, QA, security, and deployment milestones.