Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Pay: $82.00 - $88.00 per hour

Location: Irvine, CA

Role Scope

• This role focuses on coordinating capability, process, tooling, platform-health, and service-improvement delivery. It does not directly manage or execute day-to-day cyber operational activities or cases.

Why This Role Matters

• You will help create a consistent and transparent delivery system that connects prioritized demand with available capacity, improves accountability for commitments, surfaces risks early, and gives leaders reliable information for decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, document, and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views for the intake, prioritization, planning, execution, and closure of improvement work.
• Facilitate planning and delivery activities, including program increment planning or equivalent periodic planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, scrum check-ins, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to clarify priorities, outcomes, acceptance criteria, estimates, owners, dependencies, and target dates.
• Facilitate product-management practices, including outcome definition, roadmap and backlog development, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and translating strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans.
• Provide agile coaching to teams and stakeholders to improve delivery practices, role clarity, collaboration, planning discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain backlog quality by identifying stale, incomplete, duplicate, blocked, or incorrectly classified work and coordinating appropriate follow-up.
• Document commitments, decisions, risks, dependencies, blockers, and action items, and track them through resolution.
• Monitor delivery progress and proactively escalate aging, blocked, overdue, or at-risk commitments.
• Develop practical measures and dashboards covering demand, backlog health, delivery capacity, throughput, cycle time, aging, blocked work, predictability, and delivery risk.
• Establish clear metric definitions, calculation logic, data sources, reporting cadences, an

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