Senior Agile Project Manager – Remote | Jira Lead

LMI; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is a senior Project Manager / Scrum Master role for VA technology modernization. You will lead Agile delivery, own sprint cadence, translate objectives into Jira backlogs, and coordinate dependencies across discovery, cloud, migration, analytics, and adoption teams.

The position emphasizes tradeoffs, transparent reporting, risk management, and executive-level updates to ensure aligned delivery and enterprise standards. Remote-friendly with federal project experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute.
• 7+ years of project or program delivery with hands-on Agile team or workstream management.
• PMP or PMI-ACP; Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) a plus.
• Experience leading Agile delivery with Jira Cloud, workflows, plans, reports, and dependency management.
• Strong facilitation, executive communication, risk management, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and satisfy security/privacy requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to translate contract requirements into measurable tasks and delivery controls.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated workstream plans, sprint cadence, backlog health, milestones, dependencies, decision logs, and delivery status in Jira.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, impediment removal.
• Coordinate assessment, training, platform configuration, migration, integration, and adoption teams for readiness-based delivery.
• Prepare concise stakeholder status reports, delivery forecasts, issue/risk escalations, and corrective-action plans.
• Track deliverables, quality, schedule, capacity, and action items; maintain governance artifacts.
• Partner with technical leads and customer stakeholders to resolve blockers and manage change requests.
• Build integrated milestone and release plans with owners, acceptance criteria, and contingency links.
• Establish controls for scope, risk, change requests, and lessons learned without unnecessary admin burden.
• Monitor sprint predictability, blocked work, aging items, workload, and throughput to drive improvements.
• Coordinate readiness and approvals with customer decision-makers before onboarding teams or transitioning data.
• Lead concise working sessions and executive updates highlighting decisions, risks, actions, and results.
• Support GitHub / CI-CD integration, linking Jira/Confluence to GitHub.

Skills

Agile project management

Executive communication

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Jira Cloud

Confluence

GitHub

Job description

LMI is a senior Project Manager / Scrum Master role for VA technology modernization. You will lead Agile delivery, own sprint cadence, translate objectives into Jira backlogs, and coordinate dependencies across discovery, cloud, migration, analytics, and adoption teams.

The position emphasizes tradeoffs, transparent reporting, risk management, and executive-level updates to ensure aligned delivery and enterprise standards. Remote-friendly with federal project experience preferred.