Senior Project Manager / SCRUM Master
About The Position
LMI is seeking a senior Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead Agile delivery for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) technology modernization initiatives. The position combines hands-on Scrum leadership, integrated project planning, stakeholder coordination, and delivery management to help multidisciplinary teams deliver consistent outcomes while adopting enterprise work-management standards. The role directs sprint and release cadence, translates objectives into actionable Jira backlogs and schedules, and coordinates dependencies across discovery, training, cloud configuration, migration, analytics, and organizational adoption. The Project Manager / Scrum Master establishes delivery priorities, monitors quality and capacity, and provides timely, decision-ready reporting on progress, blockers, and risks. This is an active delivery-management role that requires making tradeoffs visible, removing impediments, aligning plans with stakeholder readiness, and following issues through resolution. LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact. It invests in technology and prototypes ahead of need and provides commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies. LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors and is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business administration, information systems, computer science, or a related field; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a bachelor’s degree.
- At least 7 years of project or program delivery experience, including hands-on Agile team or workstream management.
- PMP or PMI-ACP certification.
- Experience leading Agile delivery with Jira Cloud, including 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 applicable federal personnel vetting, security, privacy, accessibility, and data-handling requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage schedule and delivery risks, coordinate multiple interdependent teams, and produce accurate executive-level status reporting.
- Ability to translate contract requirements and stakeholder priorities into measurable tasks, acceptance criteria, and delivery controls.
Nice To Haves
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.
- Prior experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), or federal health programs.
- Federal enterprise IT modernization, Atlassian implementation (Commercial Cloud preferred), or cloud-migration experience.
- Experience supporting portfolio governance and scaled Agile reporting; Jira Align experience or implementation is a differentiator.
- Experience using delivery metrics to identify trends, diagnose flow or predictability problems, and coach teams toward measurable improvement.
- Atlassian certifications.
- Master’s degree in project management, business administration (MBA), public administration, or information systems.
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, and impediment removal.
- Coordinate assessment, training, platform configuration, migration, integration, and adoption teams to support readiness-based delivery waves.
- Prepare concise stakeholder status reports, delivery forecasts, issue and risk escalations, and corrective-action plans.
- Track deliverable acceptance, quality, schedule, capacity, and action items; maintain current governance artifacts.
- Partner with technical leads and customer stakeholders to resolve blockers, manage change requests, and support handover.
- Build integrated milestone and release plans with assigned owners, acceptance criteria, dependency links, and contingencies; reconcile sprint-level commitments with larger delivery-wave schedules.
- Establish transparent controls for scope, assumptions, risk, change requests, action items, and lessons learned without unnecessary administrative burden.
- Monitor sprint predictability, blocked work, aging items, workload, throughput, and planned-versus-completed deliverables; use trends to drive improvement discussions.
- Coordinate readiness and approval checkpoints with customer decision-makers before onboarding teams or transitioning configurations and data.
- Lead concise working sessions and executive updates that distinguish required decisions, emerging risks, corrective actions, and confirmed results.
- Support GitHub / CI-CD integration by connecting the full Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence, to GitHub.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
