Project Manager / Scrum Master - DHS

cFocus Software seeks a Project Manager / Scrum Master to join our program supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This position is remote. This position requires a Public Trust Clearance. Qualifications: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Geography or a related field. 5+ years of progressively responsible project/program delivery experience, including at least five years managing Agile software, data, cloud, geospatial, or enterprise IT teams and initiatives. At least three years serving as a Scrum Master, Agile delivery lead, or equivalent facilitator for multidisciplinary product or software-development teams. Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedules, costs, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, deliverables, requirements, executive reporting, and stakeholder communications. Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies, coaching teams, managing backlogs and impediments, coordinating multiple teams, and using delivery metrics to improve predictability and outcomes. Advanced experience with Jira and Confluence and working knowledge of GitLab, configuration management, documentation repositories, and federal collaboration/reporting tools. Ability to manage and communicate complex technical work involving applications, COTS products, data, cloud/infrastructure, security, testing, operations, and support. Excellent leadership, facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, analytical, presentation, technical-writing, and executive-communication skills. Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English and to satisfy DHS suitability, background-investigation, Entry on Duty, security, and access requirements. Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe Scrum Master, or comparable Agile credential. Experience managing DHS, another federal agency, homeland-security, public-safety, emergency-management, critical-infrastructure, or defense programs. Experience with enterprise GIS, ESRI Portal/ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, geospatial data services, situational-awareness applications, AWS/cloud environments, or large-scale information-sharing programs. Experience supporting federal acquisition governance, SELC, enterprise architecture, CPIC, PPBE, security authorization, Section 508, configuration/change control, or formal program reviews. Experience managing mixed FFP and T&M work, burn-rate forecasting, staffing/EOD tracking, Government deliverables, and subcontractor or multi-vendor coordination Duties: Provide programmatic support and subject-matter guidance for managing and coordinating large-scale enterprise geospatial data, applications, information sharing, and situational-awareness capabilities. Plan and manage work across scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, technical milestones, and deliverables from design through operations and decommissioning. Develop and implement plans, policies, governance approaches, and repeatable processes for documenting, analyzing, collecting, prioritizing, and implementing GII and COP requirements. Provide recommendations for prioritizing requirements and allocating available resources based on mission value, technical dependencies, risk, capacity, cost, and schedule. Coordinate integrated engineering, data, application, infrastructure, security, operations, support, and stakeholder-engagement activities. Manage product and software-development delivery for Custom and COTS teams and coach teams in Agile practices, Scrum framework values, self-organization, transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Facilitate team- and project-level ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews/demonstrations, retrospectives, release planning, and milestone reviews. Work with product owners and stakeholders to maintain an ordered, actionable, and transparent backlog aligned with program goals and available team capacity. Identify and remove impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, resolve delivery blockers, and escalate organizational issues that teams cannot resolve independently. Use metrics, observation, retrospectives, and stakeholder feedback to improve team efficiency, predictability, quality, collaboration, and delivery outcomes. Provide motivation, guidance, coaching, and conflict-resolution support while protecting teams from uncontrolled work and unnecessary disruption. Elicit business, functional, operational, technical, data, reporting, and user-experience requirements from stakeholders and capture them accurately in Jira. Assess alignment with existing operational requirements, systems, architectures, and capabilities and document gaps, conflicts, dependencies, assumptions, and risks. Facilitate validation and prioritization of requirements against DHS GMO goals, mission outcomes, technical feasibility, security/compliance needs, schedule, cost, and available resources. Ensure epics, features, user stories, tasks, bugs, acceptance criteria, definitions of ready/done, and traceability are sufficiently clear for planning, implementation, testing, and acceptance. Monitor requirements completed, in progress, blocked, overdue, deferred, or at risk and coordinate practical recovery plans Develop and maintain an integrated schedule covering sprints, releases, deliverables, reviews, dependencies, decisions, critical milestones, and responsible resources. Identify and track program and delivery risks; document impact, probability, treatment plan, owner, status, triggers, dependencies, and escalation needs in the Risk Registry. Manage issues through resolution, monitor corrective actions, and communicate emerging risks early enough to support informed Government decisions. Maintain staffing and backfill awareness, coordinate capacity and resource needs, and support onboarding, transition, and surge planning. Track equipment, software, licensing, Government-furnished equipment, personnel Entry on Duty status, badging, clearance/suitability status, and other assigned program controls