Description *Please note that this position is open to support 100% remote work anywhere within the U.S.* ICF’s Digital Modernization Division is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial, technology department, seeking to support upcoming needs with our federal customers. Our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting department that offers integrated, strategic solutions to its public and private-sector clients. ICF has the expertise, agility, and commitment to design, build, and operate high-performance IT engines to support all aspects of our client’s business. ICF is seeking a highly motivated Scrum Master to support citizen-facing digital solutions for a variety of Federal clients. Scrum Master will inspire and empower collaborative teams to deliver quality, innovative, and highly scalable web-based applications to end clients. The ideal Scrum Master will have prior experience coaching teams on Agile best practices, processes, and tools. This role works with matrixed and cross-disciplinary teams. It leads the successful delivery across markets, ensuring teams are appropriately resourced, focused on the key priorities, and aligned between roadmaps to project objectives. In this role, you will: - Guides and coaches teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services to our customers. - Gets teams to a high-performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques. - Ensures the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility. - Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines. - Works with teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision-making. - Collaborate closely with product owners, development teams, and stakeholders to define clear quality goals, monitor progress, and implement continuous improvement practices including coach teams on best practices for testing, quality assurance, and risk management - Asks difficult questions, removes impediments, and makes issues and problems visible. Escalates as necessary. - Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role. - Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. - Ensures cross-functional coordination (UX, analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often. - Uses Jira to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies. - Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization. - Manage, train, and mentor mid-level and entry-level BAs who work on different projects; assist with candidate evaluation for new BA hires. - Assists the team to agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or another period) - Facilitates the daily standup (sometimes called the daily scrum) and helps the team reach a consensus. - Helps the team make progress on the project by ensuring each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team member’s progress, and protecting the team from distractions. For this role, you will have: - 3+ years of experience in Agile development including coaching on Agile methodologies. - Must have a Secret or DHS Public Trust security clearance. - Scrum Master Certification - 1+ years of experience coaching a team and stakeholders on Agile practices and ensuring adherence to Agile methodology. - 1+ years of experience in facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives. - 1+ years of experience influencing and driving teams to success using Agile/SAFe/Scrum/Lean practices. - 1+ years of experience of leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes. - 1+ years of experience leading cross-functional teamwork in and across teams and organizations. - 1+ years of IT concepts, strategies, methodologies, architectures, and technical standards - Bachelor's degree - 1+years of experience with Tools such as Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, and Mural - U.S. Citizenship required (required by the federal government for this position) - MUST RESIDE IN THE United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.), as this work is for a federal contract and laws do apply. Preferred skills: - 1+ years of experience with the ServiceNow Platform - Communicate clearly and can deliver complex messages and teach new concepts. - 1+ years of experience resolving conflicts through strong mediation skills. - Ability to write and review user stories with clear acceptance criteria - Skilled at analyzing existing system documentation to summarize existing system functionality as it relates to the project at hand. - Good understanding of basic system technologies as they relate to the project deliverables. - Ability to maintain project roadmaps. - Ability to provide technical assistance and troubleshooting by effectively responding to inquiries. #DMD #Indeed #Li-CC1 #SWICE23 Working at ICF ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future. We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email Candidateaccommodation@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. 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We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.   Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: $89,649.00 - $152,404.00 Nationwide Remote Office (US99)

• Guides and coaches teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high-quality products and services to our customers. • Gets teams to a high-performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques. • Ensures the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility. • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines. • Works with teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision-making. • Collaborate closely with product owners, development teams, and stakeholders to define clear quality goals, monitor progress, and implement continuous improvement practices including coach teams on best practices for testing, quality assurance, and risk management. • Asks difficult questions, removes impediments, and makes issues and problems visible. Escalates as necessary. • Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role. • Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. • Ensures cross-functional coordination (UX, analysts, developers, and testers) is occurring early and often. • Uses Jira to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies. • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization. • Manage, train, and mentor mid-level and entry-level BAs who work on different projects; assist with candidate evaluation for new BA hires. • Assists the team to agree on what they can achieve during each development sprint (or another period). • Facilitates the daily standup (sometimes called the daily scrum) and helps the team reach a consensus. • Helps the team make progress on the project by ensuring each person is working on the right tasks, helping to remove any obstacles to the team member’s progress, and protecting the team from distractions.

• Acts as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders. • Aids the team and Product Owner in efforts to manage and sequence the backlog. • Leads more complex teams involving work with routine external team impact or dependencies including multiple system integration points. • Eliminates impediments and resolve issues and dependencies more independently with limited support from Release Train Engineer or other resources. • Assists in building a high-performing team and foster relentless improvement at the Team and Program level while improving team performance in areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocity. • Identifies SAFe anti-patterns and resolves with limited support and applies SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching for multiple teams. • Utilizes intermediate to advanced experience using tools to create metrics that measure and report on team performance, backlog health and continuous improvement. • With limited support from RTE and others, guides teams through the decision making process and teach techniques on how to problem solve, improve communication, self-manage and self-organize. • Applies SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching in a multi-team environment. Mentors and guides other scrum masters on SAFe principles and manifesto. • Independently participates, facilitates and manages the outputs of all agile ceremonies including Daily Stand Up meetings, Sprint review, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, backlog refinement sessions, prepare for Program Increment Planning Sessions. • Participates in the Scrum Master Communities of Practice, Scrum Mastery Sync Sessions and Agile Release Train Sync Sessions. • Demonstrates ongoing thirst for knowledge and a desire for continuous improvement by creating an environment for continuous learning and builds improvement roadmaps for team(s). • Demonstrate intermediate to advanced experience with Behavior Driven Development and Test Driven Development and support the adoption of engineering practices, DevOps, and Agile Architecture. • Provides mentorship and guidance to Scrum Master I and II. • Performs other duties as assigned.

FBS – Farmer Business Services is part of Farmers operations with the purpose of building a global approach to identifying, recruiting, hiring, and retaining top talent. By combining international reach with US expertise, we build diverse and high-performing teams that are equipped to thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. We believe that the foundation of every successful business lies in having the right people with the right skills. That is where we come in—helping Farmers build a winning team that delivers consistent and sustainable results. Since we don’t have a local legal entity, we’ve partnered with Capgemini, which acts as the Employer of Record. Capgemini is responsible for managing local payroll and benefits. What to expect on your journey with us: - A solid and innovative company with a strong market presence - A dynamic, diverse, and multicultural work environment - Leaders with deep market knowledge and strategic vision - Continuous learning and development As a Scrum Master you would need to consistently models the advanced qualities of a servant leader and exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset. Trains and coaches Agile teams and Stakeholders to embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices. Effectively removes impediments and actively communicates with leadership and outside stakeholders to protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work while improving performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocity. Provides overall leadership to Scrum Master team through mentorship and guidance Responsibilities - Acts as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholders. - Aids the team and Product Owner in efforts to manage and sequence the backlog. - Leads more complex teams involving work with routine external team impact or dependencies including multiple system integration points. - Eliminates impediments and resolve issues and dependencies more independently with limited support from Release Train Engineer or other resources. - Assists in building a high-performing team and foster relentless improvement at the Team and Program level while improving team performance in areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocity. - Identifies SAFe anti-patterns and resolves with limited support and applies SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching for multiple teams. - Utilizes intermediate to advanced experience using tools to create metrics that measure and report on team performance, backlog health and continuous improvement. - With limited support from RTE and others, guides teams through the decision making process and teach techniques on how to problem solve, improve communication, self-manage and self-organize. - Applies SAFe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching in a multi-team environment. Mentors and guides other scrum masters on SAFe principles and manifesto. - Independently participates, facilitates and manages the outputs of all agile ceremonies including Daily Stand Up meetings, Sprint review, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, backlog refinement sessions, prepare for Program Increment Planning Sessions. - Participates in the Scrum Master Communities of Practice, Scrum Mastery Sync Sessions and Agile Release Train Sync Sessions. - Demonstrates ongoing thirst for knowledge and a desire for continuous improvement by creating an environment for continuous learning and builds improvement roadmaps for team(s). - Demonstrate intermediate to advanced experience with Behavior Driven Development and Test Driven Development and support the adoption of engineering practices, DevOps, and Agile Architecture. - Provides mentorship and guidance to Scrum Master I and II. - Performs other duties as assigned.