Project Manager (Security)

A Top Fortune 50 Financial Services Company is seeking a highly motivated Project Manager to work hybrid for our client in Vienna, VA.

About the Opportunity:

• Schedule: Monday - Friday


• Hours: Standard business


• Setting: Hybrid (1 day on-site per week)

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects across ISPMO teams ensuring timelines, deliverables, and quality standards are met.


• Serve as a hybrid Project Manager/Product Owner/Business Analyst/Scrum Master to provide end- to end support for product and operational initiatives.


• Maintain and organize product backlogs by capturing, refining, and prioritizing user stories and business requirements.


• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and refinement sessions.


• Leverage ADO boards to create and track user stories, manage boards, assign tasks, and monitor team progress.


• Collaborate closely with stakeholders, business partners, and vendors to define objectives, capture requirements, and ensure alignments.


• Prepare, edit, and deliver presentations, reports, and project documentation using MS office Suite and M365 applications.


• Ensure adherence to agile best practices by following established policies, procedures, and methodologies within the Scrum framework.


• Proactively identify and resolve project risks, dependencies, and blockers to maintain steady delivery progress.


• Support effective communication between teams, leadership, and stakeholders by maintaining transparency around project status, issues, and next steps.


• Oversee documentation processes to ensure project artifacts, deliverables, and decisions are accurate, accessible, and properly maintained.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of project management experience and prior experience performing product ownership, business analysis, and scrum master responsibilities.


• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced environment.


• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), including backlog management, boards, tagging and reporting.


• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework with experience facilitating Scrum.


• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to context-switch and manage deliverables across multiple initiatives.


• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and collaboration tools (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint).


• Strong business analysis skills, including gathering requirements, writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria.


• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create clear, accurate and well-formatted documentation.


• Self-starter with strong time management skills and the ability to work independently between scheduled meetings.


• Ability to work onsite one designated day per week.


• 8+ years of project management experience and prior experience performing product ownership, business analysis, and scrum master responsibilities.


• Prior experience supporting multiple agile teams simultaneously within a PMO environment.


• Advanced proficiency in ADO for reporting, dashboarding and managing complex backlogs.


• Experience with vendor management and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration


• Familiarity with technical documentation and linking artifacts within ADO and/or SharePoint.


• Prior experience in security-related or technology-focused projects.


• Familiarity with process improvements methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.


• SAFe certifications


• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)


• Certified Product Owner (CSPO)


• PMI-ACP or equivalent certification