IT - Project Manager Tech IV

Overview

Position Title:

Senior IT - Project Manager Tech IV. Candidates can be remote. The Client Tech Applications Services team supports, enhances and develops IT systems that serve various financial purposes. The systems run on a variety of platforms including distributed components, web front ends, databases, Windows and Linux servers and middleware technologies. Provide high energy Agile facilitation for 3–5 cross functional development teams delivering financial / payment capabilities across mainframe, distributed, and cloud platforms in a large Government environment.

Conduct scrum ceremonies and teach Agile best practice. Make the process engaging, value-focused, and predictable. Scope:
Guide multiple development teams to maintain clear sprint goals, manage cross team dependencies, and continuously improve delivery flow and team engagement.

• Facilitate core Agile events and lightweight cross-team syncs; maintain sprint goal clarity.
• Make Agile "feel useful" via energetic, varied, participatory ceremonies (not rote compliance).
• Track and drive resolution of impediments (environment, integration, data, approvals) across platforms.
• Coordinate cross-team and cross-platform dependencies (batch windows vs deployment timing, integration points).
• Maintain visible radiators: sprint goals, impediment log, experiment tracker, simple metrics (goal attainment %, carryover, blocker aging).
• Coach Product Owners / BAs and tech leads on prioritization, slicing, and readiness.
• Drive 1–2 small improvement experiments per team per sprint; follow through to closure.
• Foster psychological safety, inclusive participation, and sustainable pace.
• Engagement / Culture:
  Use creative retros (rotating formats) and lightweight recognition of small wins; introduce micro-gamification to energize without distraction; encourage rotating spokespeople and silent ideation rounds.

• Minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years' relevant experience.
• 5+ years Scrum Master / Agile facilitation experience (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams).
• Ability to quickly grasp business and technical requirements, understand or learn technical jargon and government acronyms, and produce communication for all levels of the organization.
• Proficient with Version One / Agility (or comparable tool) for boards, dependencies, impediments, and lightweight rollup reporting.
• Proven ability to keep ceremonies purposeful, timeboxed, and engaging (planning, daily, refinement, review, retro).
• Demonstrated success by reducing carryover, aging blockers, and decision latency without adding heavy process.
• Ability to coach backlog readiness (thin vertical slices, clear acceptance criteria, limited WIP).
• Hold teams accountable to sizing activities to ensure project end dates can be projected. Manage over and under talkers in ceremonies. Ability to schedule, track, and manage meetings.
• Preferred: CSM / PSM / A-CSM certifications (higher certifications welcome but not required); experience with informal scaling practices (Scrum of Scrums, quarterly alignment); comfort with basic flow visuals (cycle time scatter, aging WIP snapshot).
• Educational requirements:
  
  A degree from an accredited college/university in the applicable field is required; if the degree is not in the applicable field, four additional years of related experience are required.
  
  Note:
  
  special credentials may be required at the Task Order level on a case-specific basis.

• Pass both client mandated clearance processes including drug screening, criminal history check and credit check. Upon resume approval and interview passage, the agency is responsible for providing drug screening. Failure to submit drug screening results will delay the security clearance process.
• If a candidate is given an interim clearance, continuation of employment is based on the candidate receiving a sensitive clearance.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance; citizenship may be required based on federal agency eligibility standards.
• Background investigation guidelines require candidates to have resided within the United States for at least the past five years. Extended travel or residence outside the United States totaling more than six months during the past five years may affect eligibility.
• Overtime must be pre-approved in writing by the client manager or designated representative; overtime charges require prior written authorization. Overtime may be reimbursed at straight time.
• Dress code is business casual (collared shirt with slacks for men, no skirts above the knee for women).
• Hours of support: standard work week is 5 days, 8 hours per day (Monday through Friday preferred).

Experience Level: 10+ years
• Security Clearance:
Public Trust

VRK IT Vision Inc.