Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid 3 Days a Week Onsite) Duration: 12 Months Contract to Hire Payrate: $ 63 - 67 per hour

AI Development Platform Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

The AI Development Platform provides firmwide GenAI capabilities to enable the firm's tech teams to develop and deploy GenAI solutions to meet desired business outcomes. This role is for a Technical Project Manager with a strong Scrum Master background, supporting a dynamic, fast changing team. The individual will focus on keeping the team unblocked from external dependencies, ensuring clear visibility into delivery status, risks, and issues for Product Owners, and guiding a pragmatic, gradual evolution toward mature and effective agile delivery. The role requires comfort operating in ambiguity, adapting approaches over time, and balancing structure with flexibility to enable consistent outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Actively identify, manage, and resolve external dependencies and impediments across teams and stakeholders to ensure the squad remains focused and unblocked in its delivery
• Leverage tools such as JIRA and Roadmunk to provide clear, transparent visibility into delivery status, risks, issues, and dependencies, enabling effective prioritization and decision making by Product Owners
• Ensure deliverables, expected outcomes, roles, and responsibilities are clearly defined and communicated, while remaining adaptable as priorities and team structures evolve
• Serve as a Scrum Master where appropriate, facilitating agile ceremonies and practices in a pragmatic way that supports delivery rather than imposing rigid process
• Partner closely with Product Owners and Tech Leads to incrementally improve planning discipline, backlog clarity, and delivery predictability over time
• Use metrics and tooling to surface trends and risks, focusing on actionable insights that help the team improve flow and execution
• Maintain lightweight but effective project documentation and stakeholder reporting aligned to the pace and maturity of the team
• Foster a collaborative, transparent team culture that encourages continuous improvement, learning, and shared ownership of outcomes
• Support the team's gradual evolution toward mature, effective agile delivery, introducing structure and best practices incrementally as the team's context and readiness evolve

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience driving delivery in complex, fast changing environments
• Strong grounding in Scrum and agile principles, with the judgment to apply them flexibly
• Proven ability to manage dependencies, remove blockers, and improve delivery flow
• Ability to provide clear, concise communication of status, risks, and issues to Product Owners
• Deep expertise in JIRA and delivery tracking tools
• Ability to influence behavior and outcomes without formal authority
• Proven experience operating across siloed organizations, building alignment and cohesion to enable effective end to end delivery.
• Familiarity with GenAI, data, and compute infrastructure concepts
• Hands on experience acting as a Scrum Master or agile delivery lead

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting teams as they evolve toward agile maturity, rather than operating only in fully mature agile environments
• Hands-on GenAI development experience
• Financial services or large scale transformation experience

Qualifications:

• 4-6 years working as a technical project manager

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization. Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors. Equal Employment Opportunity Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Fair Chance Employment Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances. Accommodations We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us. Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates : Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.