Remote Position
[Remote] RCI-ABBV-35573 Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master (JIRA/Confluence/Dashboard/Sprint Metrics)
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rangam is recruiting for a Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master role supporting three engineering teams. The role focuses primarily on hands-on Scrum execution, facilitating ceremonies, maintaining team-level project visibility, and reporting on delivery, dependencies, and team performance.
Responsibilities
- Act as Scrum Master / Team Steward for three engineering teams
- Lead and facilitate Scrum ceremonies across multiple teams running two-week sprints
- Manage Scrum cadence and ensure ceremonies are conducted consistently and effectively
- Facilitate planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews and other Agile ceremonies
- Help teams with prioritization and facilitate the flow of work
- Maintain visibility into team-level timelines, dependencies and project status
- Track approximately 3–4 projects of varying sizes across the three teams at any given time
- Provide continuous reporting on team health, performance and delivery
- Use JIRA extensively for task management, reporting and software-development metrics
- Work with Confluence for documentation
- Participate in program meetings and provide status updates for the projects being executed by the assigned teams
- Maintain a high-fidelity understanding of the major technical projects being executed by each team
- Understand and operate within a structured Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Coordinate effectively across engineering teams where initiatives have cross-team dependencies
- Lead and refine continuous planning, ensuring ongoing planning for and visibility to a rolling quarter + plan for the team/s you support
- Maintain engineering team schedules, ensuring proper resource planning and translation of estimates to key milestone dates
- Track project milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and timelines to ensure projects and programs stay on track and meet delivery timelines
- Remove obstacles that may hinder the team's progress
- Coordinate communication between different teams, departments, and stakeholders
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and PMO to manage and prioritize the product backlog
- Ensure engineers have necessary product requirements and UX designs to stay on track and meet deadlines
- Serve as the key liaison between software development teams and external stakeholders building advocacy and credibility
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog maintenance and refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Promote Agile best practices and educate team members to enhance team performance and productivity
- Support the JIRA management for teams they support and other tools as appropriate
- Provide burndown charts, velocity tracking, and other agile performance metrics to inform and resolve issues with the team and manager(s)
Skills
- Proven experience serving as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, Agile Project Manager or similar
- Has personally led Scrum ceremonies , rather than simply working in a Scrum environment
- Experience supporting multiple engineering/software development teams
- Comfortable working with two-week sprint cadences
- Experience facilitating ceremonies and helping teams maintain delivery discipline
- Candidate should be extremely comfortable using JIRA as a software-development task management and reporting platform
- Good understanding of SDLC
- Experience working directly with software engineering teams
- Ability to understand technical projects at the team level without necessarily being the technical SME
- Experience with engineering project status, dependencies and delivery tracking
- Must understand project timelines and status for their assigned engineering teams
- Should be able to communicate project status in program meetings
- The candidate will own the timeline/status for their team's component , not the entire cross-team program
- Previous experience working with data engineering teams or data engineering projects is highly desirable
- Exposure to AI, machine learning, neural networks or LLM-related engineering projects is a strong advantage
- Confluence experience is preferred
- Broader Atlassian Suite experience is a plus
- Interest or experience in using AI to build automations, skills or workflows is a plus
- Exposure to tools such as Cloud Code / CodePilot or similar AI-assisted development/automation environments is beneficial
- Experience building AI-powered automations is a differentiator, but not a core requirement
- Sweet spot is approximately 5–8 years of experience
- 3–5 years could work for a more traditional software-development environment
- Experience leading agile/scrum ceremonies for multiple teams
- Proficiency to expert level experience in Atlassian tools for task management (Jira, Confluence)
- Prior experience and familiarity working with data engineering and AI/ML engineering teams in software development/delivery
- Technical project management experience on mid to large scale software projects
- (nice to have) Hands on experience with AI tools such as Claude code and Copilot
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field
- 5+ years' experience in an Agile environment with experience using Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability
- Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and related tooling
- Experience with JIRA reporting, dashboards, sprint tracking, metrics and team health/performance is highly valuable
Benefits
- Remote work; must be able to work PST hours.
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