This role is contingent upon a contract award, but the company is actively interviewing and extending offers in anticipation of it. The Digital Modernization Division delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients, bringing expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation. You will join a team accelerating the modernization of a large federal agency's enterprise data and analytics ecosystem, which is a cloud-based platform providing data storage, analytics, governance, and AI/ML capabilities.
Responsibilities
Facilitate Agile delivery flow for assigned delivery streams by coordinating backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, blocker removal, dependency management, team metrics, and release coordination
Ensure stories meet Definition of Ready before sprint commitment and that cross-team issues are surfaced quickly through Product Operations
Support Functional Leads and Domain Product Managers while remaining independent enough to identify delivery risks, weak backlog readiness, and unresolved dependencies
Apply Scrum/Agile delivery, sprint planning, refinement facilitation, dependency management, delivery metrics, blockers/escalation, release coordination, and SAFe/Agile experience to support role delivery
Collaborate with relevant product, engineering, security, governance, quality, and customer-facing stakeholders as required by the role
Document work products, decisions, risks, and delivery evidence to support traceability and continuous improvement
Requirements
U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements
Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years
Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Agile Delivery, or related field; or a high school diploma with four (4) years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
Minimum 4 years of relevant experience aligned to the responsibilities of this role
Master's degree may substitute for two (2) years of relevant experience
Nice to have:
Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning activities
Experience with backlog refinement, dependency management, risk identification, issue resolution, and escalation management
Experience tracking and reporting delivery metrics such as sprint progress, velocity, burn-down/burn-up, predictability, throughput, and team health indicators
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Experience applying Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar delivery frameworks in complex organizations
Experience coaching teams on Agile practices, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence
Experience facilitating collaboration across product management, engineering, architecture, security, testing, governance, and customer stakeholder groups
Experience utilizing Agile project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, Miro, or similar platforms
Experience supporting Federal government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments
Work format: Remote, with occasional onsite meetings on the client site in Washington, DC
About the Company
ICF's Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting organization that delivers integrated, strategic solutions to federal clients. They bring expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, data modernization, and digital transformation to support mission-critical government programs.
ICF is a global consulting and technology services company with approximately 9,000 employees, but we are not your typical consultants.
