Our client is seeking a Technical Project Manager (Agile, Scrum) III who will develop, maintain, and manage detailed project plans, action item registers, and major milestone timelines for all assigned projects.
Key Accountabilities:
Defines the workflow process, creates, and maintains process workflow documents to support business needs.
Organize and maintain documentation repository.
Facilitates and leads project meetings, scrum ceremonies, grooming sessions, planning sessions, technical working sessions, and status meetings.
Manages project status and information in the form of formal briefings, scrum sessions, project update meetings, and written, electronic, and graphic reports.
Business acumen as key point of contact and interface with business stakeholders and vendors.
Responsible for managing multiple complex or enterprise-wide technical programs consisting of multiple projects.
Coach individuals in Agile processes and tools.
Provide status reporting on project key performance indicators (KPIs), schedule, resources, and milestone delivery.
Develops the program strategy, supporting business case and various enterprise-wide, high-level project plans.
Ensures integration of projects and adjusts project scope, timing, and budgets as needed, based on the needs of the business.
Communicates with technology leadership, business leadership, Business Consultants, and vendors to communicate program strategy, direction, and changes.
Responsible for delivering all projects contained in the technology project portfolio on time, within budget, and meeting the strategic and business requirements.
Responsible for tracking key project milestones and recommending adjustments to Project Managers.
Manage specific new technical service engineering programs to meet broad service/product objectives.
Establish milestones and monitor adherence to plans and schedules, identify delivery risks, and obtain/drive mitigation strategies and solutions.
Coordinate across multiple engineering/development teams as needed.
Serve as a conduit between deployment and engineering to ensure requirements and design considerations are incorporated to improve deployment and sustainability of software and services.
Required Skills:
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or other related field—or equivalent work experience.
Project Management certified is a plus.
Comfortable working in a flexible methodology environment.
Possesses extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of Project Management methodologies and tools.
Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills conducive to team development; able to work well in cross-functional teams.
Capability and flexibility to wear many hats: scrum master, project manager, program manager, product owner.