Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master
Irvine, CA (Hybrid)
12-Month Contract
SGX20844

Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company, in their search for a Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master. This is a 12-month contract opportunity based out of Irvine, CA (Hybrid).

This role focuses on coordinating capability, process, tooling, platform-health, and service-improvement delivery. It does not directly manage or execute day-to-day cyber operational activities or cases.

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, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical delivery information into concise leadership reporting and decision support.
• Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, follow through on commitments, and create transparency across cross-functional work.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills, with attention to data quality and operational continuity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting cybersecurity or adjacent risk and technology functions.
• Experience working in scaled agile or multi-team delivery environments.
• Experience establishing new portfolio reporting, delivery governance, or work-management practices.

Responsibilities:

• Build, configure, document, and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views for the intake, prioritization, planning, execution, and closure of improvement work.
• Facilitate planning and delivery activities, including program increment planning or equivalent periodic planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, scrum check-ins, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to clarify priorities, outcomes, acceptance criteria, estimates, owners, dependencies, and target dates.
• Facilitate product-management practices, including outcome definition, roadmap and backlog development, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and translating strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans.
• Provide agile coaching to teams and stakeholders to improve delivery practices, role clarity, collaboration, planning discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain backlog quality by identifying stale, incomplete, duplicate, blocked, or incorrectly classified work and coordinating appropriate follow-up.
• Document commitments, decisions, risks, dependencies, blockers, and action items, and track them through resolution.
• Monitor delivery progress and proactively escalate aging, blocked, overdue, or at-risk commitments.
• Develop practical measures and dashboards covering demand, backlog health, delivery capacity, throughput, cycle time, aging, blocked work, predictability, and delivery risk.
• Establish clear metric definitions, calculation logic, data sources, reporting cadences, and data-quality checks.
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies and commitments, including accountable owners, committed dates, status, blockers, completion criteria, and evidence of completion.
• Track improvement actions arising from lessons learned and operational post-mortems through completion or formal disposition.
• Prepare concise leadership updates that communicate priorities, progress, capacity, risks, dependencies, decisions needed, and recommended tradeoffs.

Pay Range for CA, CO, IL, NJ, NY, WA, and DC: $88/hour to $88/hour. Starting rate of pay offered may vary depending on factors including but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.

Solugenix will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and Ordinance. Applicants do not need to disclose their criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if we are concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, applicants will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

About the Client
Our client is an American financial services company. It ranks among the world's oldest and largest investment management organizations. They have offices globally.

About Solugenix
Solugenix is a leader in IT services, delivering cutting-edge technology solutions, exceptional talent, and managed services to global enterprises. With extensive expertise in highly regulated and complex industries, we are a trusted partner for integrating advanced technologies with streamlined processes. Our solutions drive growth, foster innovation, and ensure compliance-providing clients with reliability and a strong competitive edge.
Recognized as a 2024 Top Workplace, Solugenix is proud of its inclusive culture and unwavering commitment to excellence. Our recent expansion, with new offices in the Dominican Republic, Jakarta, and the Philippines, underscores our growing global presence and ability to offer world-class technology solutions. Partnering with Solugenix means more than just business-it means having a dedicated ally focused on your success in today's fast-evolving digital world.

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