Project Manager Full Time

About the job
Job description – Key Responsibilities / Duties:

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 2-4 week durations
Ability to interpret burn down charts, burn up charts, SCRUM & Kanban boards to know the teams progress
Good exposure to sizing techniques used in agile process
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