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 risks
- Convert 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
Preferred Qualifications- 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
Skills Required
- US citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 6 years of related professional experience
- Active Scrum certification or other industry-related Agile certification
- Experience as a Scrum Master on IT modernization projects or enterprise solution teams with multiple cross-functional teams
- Experience in professional services or federal consulting
- Experience serving as a functional lead across multiple Agile teams
- Ability to recommend Agile techniques such as Scrum or Kanban based on situational needs
- Expertise engaging Product Owners, Business Owners, and end users
- DHS experience
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
