Senior Level Scrum Master

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.

• 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 Range: $135,000-$165,000

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

• At minimum, holds an active Scrum certification or other industry-related Agile certifications
• Ability to understand interpret metrics and Agile reports to analyze team performance and production, to inform delivery planning and improvements, including but not limited to velocity charts, burndowns/burnups, CFD, Control Charts, etc.
• 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
• Experienced “servant leader” working across multiple Agile teams with a demonstrated ability to distinguish between and recommend Agile techniques (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) based on situational needs
• Expertise with engaging product owners, business owners and end users to ensure quality, accuracy and timeliness of delivery

• General understanding of software development lifecycle and technical migration concepts, with working knowledge of testing and deployment practices and tools
• Strong experience translating business needs into functional and technical requirements
• Experience leading initiatives from concept through delivery and implementation
• Hands‑on proficiency with Agile tools such…