Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lynker Corporation is a leading provider of innovative solutions in weather and climate science. They are seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to lead development and sustainment work, manage stakeholder communication, and ensure project delivery aligns with contract requirements.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day delivery of development and sustainment work, owning scope, schedule, and execution against the contract Performance Work Statement
- Serve as Scrum Master / Agile lead — facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, and keep the team's velocity and burndown healthy
- Act as a technical lead and trusted point of contact for the development team, contributing to architecture and design discussions, unblocking engineers, and making sound trade-off calls on sprint scope
- Produce clear, reliable documentation including meeting minutes, decision logs, action-item tracking, status reports, and risk/issue registers and follow each item to closure
- Manage stakeholder communication with the federal customer (Product Owner, COR, and end-user representatives), translating between technical teams and program leadership
- Maintain and groom the product backlog, write and refine user stories and acceptance criteria, and ensure work is properly prioritized and ready for development
- Track and report on cost, schedule, and performance; surface risks early and drive mitigation
- Coordinate releases and deployments, and support QA, user acceptance, and transition activities
Skills
- 5+ years of IT project management experience, including leading software development teams
- Demonstrated mastery of Agile and Scrum with proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead
- Strong technical leadership ability: comfortable engaging developers on architecture, code-level trade-offs, and sprint scoping decisions
- Exceptional documentation and note-taking discipline and able to capture decisions, action items, and follow-ups accurately in real time and maintain authoritative records
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field (equivalent experience considered)
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a federal Public Trust / background investigation
- Experience supporting federal customers, or other federal scientific or regulatory data systems
- Familiarity with the technical environment (e.g., Oracle/APEX, web-based reporting and data submission systems, large multi-user operational platforms)
- PMP, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM/PSM), or equivalent certification
- Experience with help desk / user support operations and service-level reporting in a sustainment context
- Prior experience in a federal government contracting environment
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost
- Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays
- Highly competitive compensation plan regularly calibrated against industry and location benchmarks
- 401(k) retirement plan with company-matching
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we're all company owners!
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life and accident insurance
- Tuition assistance/Training/Workforce improvement reimbursement per year
- Spot bonuses for exceptional performance
- Annual Employee Recognition Awards with bonuses
- Employee Referral Program
- Free centralized, self-directed Learning Management System to learn at your own pace
- Personalized career growth plans for every employee
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