Scalence L.L.C. is a company focused on IT services, and they are seeking a Project Manager Tech IV to lead Agile facilitation for multiple development teams. The role involves managing sprint goals, cross-team dependencies, and continuous improvement in a government environment.
Responsibilities:
- 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 / Client 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
Requirements:
- Minimum of eight (8) years' relevant experience
- 5+ years Scrum Master / Agile facilitation (2+ years with multiple concurrent development teams)
- Ability to quickly grasp business and technical requirements, understand or learn technical jargon and government acronyms, produce communication for all levels of the organization
- Proficient with VersionOne / 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 ends dates can be projected
- Manage over and under talkers in ceremonies
- Ability to schedule, track, and manage meetings
- A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years' relevant experience
- A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field then four additional years of related experience is required
- Typically performs all functional duties independently
- Note: Special credentials (licenses and/or certifications) may be required at the Task Order level on a case-specific basis
- CSM / PSM / A-CSM (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)