Senior Project/Portfolio Coordinator

Accountabilities:: Maintain and organize Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar project boards, backlogs, workflows, schedules, and work items. Ensure work items contain clear acceptance criteria, accurate status information, appropriate tags, and relevant story-point estimates. Coordinate sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, release readiness reviews, and other project and team meetings. Track milestones, deliverables, deadlines, dependencies, risks, issues, resource constraints, and other factors affecting project execution. Maintain RAID logs and proactively identify potential schedule delays, roadblocks, and cross-team dependencies. Document meetings, track action items, and follow up with owners to ensure commitments are completed on time. Prepare recurring project status reports, dashboards, burndown charts, velocity metrics, and executive-level summaries. Translate technical progress, challenges, risks, and accomplishments into clear communications for program leadership and external stakeholders. Coordinate activities across software engineering, QA, UI/UX, DevOps, infrastructure, and other supporting teams. Monitor code reviews, pull requests, testing, deployments, and release blockers that could affect project deliverables. Maintain project documentation and repositories in Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub Wiki, or similar platforms. Ensure architecture diagrams, user guides, release documentation, compliance approvals, and other project materials are properly maintained and archived. Support application release schedules, testing and feedback cycles, production maintenance windows, and incident tracking. Monitor software licensing requirements, vendor updates, cloud-resource needs, and related project allocations. Track contract deliverables and required approvals against statements of work, project schedules, and program baselines. Provide day-to-day administrative and operational support that enables technical leadership to focus on engineering execution, team development, and strategic priorities. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered. At least 3 years of experience supporting software development, IT, or technical project teams. Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and the software development lifecycle. Experience managing project boards, backlogs, workflows, and reporting through Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms. Experience coordinating sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, release activities, and other Agile project meetings. Strong ability to develop and maintain project schedules, milestone trackers, action-item logs, and RAID registers. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical information into concise executive-level summaries. Experience developing project status reports, dashboards, metrics, leadership briefings, and other project communications. Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously. Ability to identify and proactively communicate project risks, schedule delays, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies. Strong collaboration skills with software engineers, technical leads, QA professionals, UI/UX designers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, vendors, and program leadership. Experience maintaining project documentation in Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub Wiki, or similar knowledge repositories. Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Ability to work independently, take initiative, follow through on commitments, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment. Experience supporting government contracts, formal deliverables, compliance requirements, or software licensing is preferred. Project management or Agile certifications such as CAPM, PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, or PMI-ACP are preferred. Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance or access authorization associated with the position. Ability to perform the physical requirements of the role, including prolonged computer-based work, repetitive hand and wrist movements, and participation in audible emergency communications, with reasonable accommodation where applicable. Benefits: Annual projected compensation range of $145,000–$175,000. Market-based compensation aligned with education, knowledge, skills, competencies, experience, position location, and contract requirements. Total compensation package in addition to base salary. Opportunity to support software development and application management initiatives in a technical, collaborative environment. Exposure to Agile delivery, portfolio coordination, technical program operations, and cross-functional project management. Opportunities to work closely with engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, QA, and technical leadership teams. Professional development opportunities through project management and Agile experience.