Hybrid Agile PM Lead: Discovery, Experiments, Rapid Value

LMI Technologies; Tysons, Washington (VA, District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI seeks an Agile Scrum Master/Technical Program Manager to lead rapid discovery, intake, experimentation, and proof-of-concept delivery for VA modernization initiatives. This hybrid role blends technical and non-technical work beyond a software-only Scrum Master position.

The position requires ~25% onsite presence at LMI’s Tysons, VA/Washington, DC. Lead will enable evidence-based decisions, lightweight experiments, and clear next steps for advancing or stopping initiatives as warranted.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Agile delivery, technical program management, or related work.
• Experience managing intake pipelines, experiments, prototypes, or rapidly changing portfolios beyond standard sprint administration.
• Strong backlog, dependency, capacity, flow-metric, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Recommended certification: CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or comparable Agile credential.
• Ability to satisfy VA vetting and data-handling requirements.
• Ability to tailor Agile/Lean/Kanban approaches for exploratory work.
• Experience using flow metrics to diagnose constraints and improve delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage intake, prioritization, backlog flow, work-in-progress, and delivery cadence for rapid-turn initiatives.
• Coordinate discovery, experiments, prototypes, proof-of-concepts, decision points, and handoffs.
• Track cycle time, throughput, backlog aging, blockers, dependencies, and available capacity.
• Bring cross-functional specialists into work at the right time.
• Facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and decision sessions for mixed innovation work.
• Keep evidence, assumptions, risks, ownership, and feasibility visible before work advances.
• Promote reuse and capture reusable lessons for future VA initiatives.
• Provide concise status, capacity, risk, and demand inputs for program reporting.
• Design and operate a transparent intake/triage process with clear problem and evidence needs.
• Define lightweight experiment plans, hypotheses, success measures, and exit criteria.

Skills

Agile delivery

Technical program management

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Kanban/Lean

Jira

Azure DevOps

Experience with VA or federal programs

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, information technology, engineering, product management, or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

LMI seeks an Agile Scrum Master/Technical Program Manager to lead rapid discovery, intake, experimentation, and proof-of-concept delivery for VA modernization initiatives. This hybrid role blends technical and non-technical work beyond a software-only Scrum Master position.

The position requires ~25% onsite presence at LMI’s Tysons, VA/Washington, DC. Lead will enable evidence-based decisions, lightweight experiments, and clear next steps for advancing or stopping initiatives as warranted.