Technical Project Manager / (Agile Coach)

Onward Search; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

Life Insurance.

401(k) Program.

Commuter Benefit.

eLearning and Ongoing Training.

Education Reimbursement.

Job summary

Onward Search is seeking a Technical Project Manager / Agile Coach for a hybrid role in Irvine, California. You will coordinate technical delivery across cybersecurity and technology operations teams, improve planning, prioritization, and agile practices, and surface risks early.

This temporary opportunity emphasizes Jira proficiency and stakeholder collaboration. Responsibilities include maintaining Jira boards, facilitating planning ceremonies, defining priorities and acceptance criteria,

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile delivery for cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, technology operations, or similarly complex technical portfolios.
• Strong Jira administration and reporting experience, including workflows, boards, filters, dashboards, permissions, automation, and data-quality practices.
• Experience facilitating agile planning and delivery ceremonies across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating product-management practices and coaching teams and stakeholders in agile ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, risk management, conflict-resolution, documentation, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views.
• Facilitate planning sessions, backlog refinement, scrum check-ins, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define priorities, outcomes, acceptance criteria, estimates, ownership, dependencies, and target dates.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on agile practices, collaboration, role clarity, and continuous improvement.
• Track delivery progress, risks, blockers, dependencies, commitments, and improvement actions through resolution.

Skills

Agile delivery

Jira administration

Facilitation

Product management coaching

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Documentation

Organizational skills

Tools

Jira

Job description

Technical Project Manager / (Agile Coach) is a temporary opportunity with our client supporting cybersecurity and technology operations. This role coordinates technical delivery across teams by improving planning, prioritization, agile practices, dependency management, and leadership visibility. You will help connect demand with capacity and surface risks early. Hybrid in Irvine.

Technical Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views.
• Facilitate planning sessions, backlog refinement, scrum check-ins, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to define priorities, outcomes, acceptance criteria, estimates, ownership, dependencies, and target dates.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on agile practices, collaboration, role clarity, and continuous improvement.
• Track delivery progress, risks, blockers, dependencies, commitments, and improvement actions through resolution.

Technical Project Manager Qualifications:

• Experience leading agile delivery for cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, technology operations, or similarly complex technical portfolios.
• Strong Jira administration and reporting experience, including workflows, boards, filters, dashboards, permissions, automation, and data-quality practices.
• Experience facilitating agile planning and delivery ceremonies across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating product-management practices and coaching teams and stakeholders in agile ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, risk management, conflict-resolution, documentation, and organizational skills.

Perks and Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• 401(k) Program.
• Commuter Benefit.
• eLearning and Ongoing Training.
• Education Reimbursement.

Eligibility requires working over 30 hours per week on an assignment lasting at least 10 weeks.