Scrum Master

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Scrum Master to work in our Arlington, VA office.

ECS seeks a dynamic and experienced Scrum Master to provide business and solutions support services for our national security client. We are seeking a problem solver who enjoys the challenge of tackling cyber mission and operational tasks and problems with little oversight, and connecting dots to think at the broader capability, cyber mission, and solution levels. A strong desire and aptitude for learning is a must with a proven ability to adapt and drive change. Successful candidates will build trust with the customer, coordinate delivery, enable optimal delivery, maintain and improve team cohesion and culture, ensure overall requirements align with the project mission, report risks and provide mitigations, and is the accountable party for and to the team. The candidate should have experience organizing Agile Roadmaps to include developing relative feature roadmaps and delivery roadmaps. Additional duties include technical documentation, recording customer feedback / meeting minutes, and requirements refinement and decomposition. The ideal candidate will:

• Proactively seek opportunities to define and improve processes to align and optimize resources across functional areas in response to a dynamic customer environment
• Execute an effective customer satisfaction and client management strategy, including routine customer meetings, deliverables, and activities to ensure effective risk and quality management
• Provide thought leadership and influence through strong leadership and consultative, analytical, organizational, and design skills
• Possess exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including the ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization and navigate strong personalities using excellent communication skills

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree with 5 - 7 years of experience, or a Masters degree with 3 - 5 years of experience.
• Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate the listed level of competency for these skills:
• Familiarity with code repositories, particularly Git/GitHub
• Expert level expertise in requirements management including elicitation, documentation, and traceability to solution implementation, design artifacts, documentation, and tests.
• Expert level communication skills with both technical and non-technical personnel: visual, oral, and written.
• Expert level expertise in leading and facilitating requirements working sessions and clearly documenting the outcomes (e.g. requirements, action items, decisions made etc.)
• Intermediate level expertise with development of and successful delivery of software
• Intermediate level expertise organizing an Agile backlog using one or more Application Lifecyle Management (ALM) tools, preferably Jira
• Intermediate level expertise using team collaboration tools (e.g. Confluence, SharePoint, MS Teams, etc.)
• Intermediate level expertise using Microsoft Office Suite applications (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Demonstrable ability to act as the "voice of the customer" ensuring concepts and requirements are understood by the team.
• Beginner level expertise of the cyber security domain to include: governance and risk management, compliance, business continuity and disaster recovery, encryption, software development security, access control, network security / secure architecture, and security operations.

Desired Skills

• Candidates will benefit from having these skills, experience and understanding:
• SAFe Certification, CSM, CSPO, or equivalent
• Experience using Confluence to manage documentation
• Experience supporting Federal programs, particularly within DHS
• Advanced knowledge in one or many cyber security domain areas
• Team leadership experience, especially Agile Product Owner or Requirements Manager
• Basic knowledge of cyber frameworks/tools/technologies.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.