Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Orion Group is recruiting a Project Manager III / Agile Specialist for a global pharmaceutical organization. The role leads Agile delivery across technical software development and engineering initiatives, coordinating plans, priorities, dependencies, metrics, and stakeholders across Engineering, Product, PMO, Data Engineering, and AI/ML Engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies across multiple engineering teams, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Drive continuous planning and maintain visibility into rolling quarterly plans, priorities, milestones, and delivery expectations
- Maintain engineering team schedules and support resource planning by translating estimates into key milestone and delivery dates
- Track project milestones, dependencies, risks, deliverables, and timelines to ensure programs remain on track
- Identify and remove roadblocks that may impact engineering team progress or delivery
- Coordinate communication and alignment across Engineering, Product, PMO, and other business stakeholders
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to manage, prioritize, and refine product backlogs
- Ensure engineering teams have the appropriate product requirements, UX designs, and supporting information needed to meet delivery timelines
- Serve as a key liaison between software development teams and external/business stakeholders
- Manage and maintain team workflows within Jira, Confluence, and related Atlassian tools
- Develop and monitor Agile performance metrics, including burndown charts, velocity, sprint progress, and delivery metrics
- Use project and Agile metrics to identify risks, capacity concerns, bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve team performance
- Promote Agile best practices and help teams continuously improve processes, productivity, and delivery
- Support technical projects involving data engineering, AI/ML engineering, and software development
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience working in an Agile environment, utilizing methodologies such as Scrum and/or Kanban
- Demonstrated experience facilitating Agile/Scrum ceremonies for multiple teams
- Strong technical project management experience supporting mid- to large-scale software development or technology initiatives
- Prior experience partnering with Data Engineering and/or AI/ML Engineering teams throughout software development and delivery
- Advanced proficiency with Atlassian tools, particularly Jira and Confluence
- Experience managing project plans, engineering schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities
- Experience with backlog management, sprint planning, resource planning, and Agile delivery metrics
- Strong understanding of software development and technical delivery processes
- Excellent organizational, communication, stakeholder-management, and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt within a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
- Ability to work independently while coordinating across technical and business teams
- Must be able to consistently work Pacific Time hours
- Hands-on experience with AI development/productivity tools such as Claude Code and/or Microsoft Copilot
- Experience supporting AI/ML initiatives or AI-enabled software products
- Experience working across multiple Agile engineering teams simultaneously
- Familiarity with software engineering dependencies, technical requirements, UX/design handoffs, and product development workflows
- More technical than a traditional non-IT project manager
- Understands how software engineering teams operate
- Confidently work with developers, data engineers, AI/ML engineers, Product, and PMO stakeholders
Benefits
- 100% remote – U.S.
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