IT Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:

- Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.

- Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases.

- Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.

- Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.

- Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional).

- Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.

- Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.

- Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.

- Implement and support principles, rules and processes.

- Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow.

- Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution.

- Presents high level project readouts for senior management.

- Supports product owners with dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.

Job Requirements:

- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience.

- Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints.

- Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, etc.

- Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment.

- Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum

- Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.

- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.

- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams & needs.

- Solid experience working with engineering teams to assess and size story/epics.

- Passionate commitment to delivering products on time.

- Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive/ Senior Management level audience.

- Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning.

- Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology.