Project Manager / Scrum Master

Job Title: Project Manager / Scrum Master

Job Description

Project Manager (Agile Release Train) - Plano, TX
Onsite 5 days/week | Local candidates only (no relocation) | Urgent hire

Join a multinational telecommunications technology leader where your leadership will directly shape how large-scale systems are designed, improved, and delivered. This is a high-visibility role with real room to grow your career while working at global scale.

What You'll Own:

Lead with Agile Excellence:
- Drive program and release-level processes for an Agile Release Train, bringing strong servant leadership, technical savvy, and domain expertise to every interaction
- Coach and mentor teams on Agile, Lean, and SAFe principles, helping them level up with every Program Increment
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs, clearing the path for teams to do their best work

Shape Program Strategy:
- Facilitate Program Increment planning sessions, bringing together leadership, stakeholders, and delivery teams to align on goals and priorities
- Act as the critical link between business and technical teams, ensuring everyone moves forward with a shared vision

Drive Quality and Impact:
- Partner with stakeholders to gather, document, and maintain clear requirements and user stories, whether in Agile or Waterfall environments
- Coordinate testing and UAT efforts to confirm deliverables meet both business needs and quality standards
- Manage change requests with a sharp eye on scope, timeline, and risk, keeping projects on track and stakeholders confident

Build What's Next:
- Support project planning, from timelines to resource allocation
- Continuously identify smarter ways to manage requirements and improve team processes and tools

Required Skills

Required:

- Has over Four (4) years of experience working as a Project Manager, Five (5) years of experience working as a Scrum Master and knowledge of Release Train Engineer.
- Extensive understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Waterfall, Agile Scrum and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
- Experience in facilitating Sprint Ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) for each of the Agile SCRUM methodology sprints as a SCRUM master.
- Expertise in handling SCRUM artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn Down chart
- Knowledge of Agentic AI and autonomous AI systems that can act independently to achieve pre-determined goals without constant human oversight.
- Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.