Project Managers (Onsite)
Job Description
- Lead day to day execution of one or more scrum teams or project teams
- Facilitate release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, driving continuous improvement and effective stakeholder engagement.
- Facilitate sprint planning sessions and provide sprint commitment updates to business via status reporting as well as stakeholder review sessions.
- Work with Product Owner to understand, organize and prioritize the product back log.
- Assist development team and Product Owner to refine product functionality and product back log, proposing possible approaches or solutions to accelerate delivery and/or ensure product continues to meet business case objectives.
- Identify and remove impediments (risks and issues) impacting release and program level teams.
- Communicate progress as required (weekly / monthly status reporting and other enterprise governance exercises / checkpoints), raising risks and issues to Product Owner and other key stakeholders.
- Collaborate and coordinate with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Delivery Managers and Domain Managers in a multiple agile team environment.
- Facilitate technical discussions with Architects and Developers to resolve technical challenges the team encounters.
- Coordinate UAT testing with end users.
- Work with the Delivery Manager to introduce and continuously improve delivery best practices, (e.g., XP Engineering practices such as: automated testing, refactoring, pair programming, test driven development, and continuous integration).
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters, Program Managers, Project Managers and Domain Managers across the enterprise to adopt, standardize and document delivery best practices.
Competencies for Success
- The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of Agile Scrum Master experience as well as project management experience in more traditional methodologies.
- Strong team leadership skills, driving effective team operating models and improving team maturity levels in understanding process and increasing productivity via influence rather than direct authority.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including executive stakeholder management.
- Consulting experience highly preferred
- Strong change management experience
- Experience leading the change from waterfall methodologies towards agile methodologies and practices.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams highly preferred.
- Experience leading teams consisting of employees, contractors, and strategic partners.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment where production releases occur in 2 to 4 week durations.
- Ability to interpret burn down charts, burn up charts, SCRUM & Kanban boards to know the team’s progress.
- Good exposure to sizing techniques used in agile processes.
- Ability to improve team maturity levels in understanding process and increasing productivity in terms of velocity.
- Exposure using Agile Life Cycle Management tools including JIRA or Rally
- Familiar with knowledge management tools such as SharePoint, Confluence etc.
- Scrum Master and Scaled Agile Framework certifications are a must.