Job Title: Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Location: Arizona
Client: Arizona Department of Health Services
Duration: 3 to 4 Months
Highly prefer candidates in Arizona – can try remote.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Delivery & Sprint Management
Lead end-to-end delivery from initiation through formal closure.
Manage Agile sprint ceremonies including planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
Facilitate Scrum events and remove impediments to ensure milestone-based delivery.
Coordinate dependencies across development, data engineering, QA, DevOps, BA, and architecture workstreams.
Stakeholder Communication & Governance
Own stakeholder communication, escalation management, and executive governance reporting.
Run Steering Committee meetings, status checkpoints, and sprint review demos.
Maintain dashboards covering scope, schedule, quality, risk, and financial KPIs.
Risk, Issue & Change Management
Maintain the project risk register and drive mitigation actions.
Track milestone delivery and manage risks, issues, and change requests through formal change control.
Coordinate vendor-client dependencies including environment access, dataset delivery, UAT scheduling, and knowledge transfer.
Documentation & Deliverable Ownership
Maintain project documentation including project plan, RACI, risk register, status reports, and change logs.
Ensure all contractual deliverables across milestones are completed and formally accepted.
Support contracts team with scope change orders and subcontracting disclosures.
Required Qualifications:
12+ years of IT project management experience delivering web and data platform engagements end-to-end.
Experience running Agile / SAFe programs with milestone-based acceptance in public sector or regulated environments.
Active Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or SAFe Scrum Master) and/or PMP.
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or Jira for sprint planning, backlog management, and reporting.
Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams and vendor-client coordination.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive and technical audiences.
Experience managing risk registers, change control, and governance reporting for public-sector programs.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience delivering public-facing data portals, analytics, or health information systems for government agencies.
SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or equivalent certification.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and AWS environments.
Familiarity with HIPAA, HITECH, ADA Section 508, and data privacy expectations.
Experience coaching teams and working with Steering Committees.
Technical Environment:
Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, Teams
AWS environments (Dev/Test/Prod), Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git CI/CD
SAFe Agile, Scrum, milestone-based acceptance
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