Senior Project Lead - Scrum Master

HCL Technologies Limited; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited in Irving, Texas seeks a Senior Project Lead who also serves as Scrum Master to drive agile project delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget are met. You will facilitate AI-enhanced ceremonies, align with Product Owners, Engineering, Architects and executives, and forecast capacity and risks using data-driven insights.

Strong collaboration and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP, or PMP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage projects while acting as Scrum Master, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
• Lead AI-enabled agile ceremonies and groom backlogs with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Enterprise Architects and executives to align priorities.
• Forecast capacity and risks using data to optimize sprint planning in Jira and Clarity.
• Drive continuous improvement through coaching and standardization of PMO/Agile playbooks.

Skills

Agile PM

AI ceremonies

GenAI Story Mapping

Stakeholder Alignment

Forecasting

Scrum of Scrums

Risk Management

Defect Triage

Agile Coaching

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Project Lead is responsible for overseeing and managing projects while also serving as the Scrum Master, specializing in Project Management, Change Management, and Agile Methodologies. The primary focus is on ensuring successful project delivery within the defined scope, timeline, and budget by applying agile principles.

Skill Requirements

• Agile Project & Portfolio management: Lead complex, multi-workstream project initiatives from inception to delivery, aligning sprint execution and technical roadmaps with enterprise business priorities, capital planning, and architecture standards.
• AI-Augmented Agile Ceremony Facilitation: Facilitate end-to-end Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Backlog Grooming, Demos, and Retrospectives)
• GenAI Requirements Engineering & Story Mapping:
• Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Alignment: Orchestrate collaborative partnerships across Product Owners (POs/TPOs), Engineering Managers, Enterprise Architects, Quality Engineering, and executive stakeholders to drive shared delivery commitments.
• Program, Project & Capacity Forecasting: Lead project planning and release roadmap scheduling, applying AI data analysis to evaluate team velocity, optimize resource capacity, and balance sprint commitments in Jira and Clarity.
• Cross-Team Dependency & Scrum of Scrums (SoS): Coordinate Scrum of Scrums and cross-squad alignment forums to identify, track, and resolve critical technical dependencies across distributed UI, backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
• Proactive Risk & Blocker Intelligence
• Defect Triage & Production Sanity
• Agile Coaching & AI Playbook Standardization: Champion continuous delivery improvement by establishing standardized PMO/Agile playbooks, building custom AI prompt libraries, and mentoring squads on agile best practices and responsible GenAI adoption.

Other Requirements

1.Scrum Master (CSM), Agile (PMIACP), or Project Management (PMP) certification is preferred.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range Minimum: $108,000per year

Pay Range Maximum: $169,000per year

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies:

• medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance
• employee assistance program
• 401(k) retirement plan
• 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year)
• 10 paid holidays per year

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to [e-mail] for investigation.