Job summary:

Job description:

**** Federal/DoD Contract - Must be a US Citizen - No dual citizens; must be willing to go through a background check *** 100% Onsite - No remote due to security***Initial PO till 9/30/2021 with multi year extensions; usually the project goes for 4+ years with this customer**

*** Customer works on 4/10 schedule. The standard work week consist of ten (10) hours of work between 6:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. with one half hour designated as an unpaid period for lunch, Monday through Thursday ***

Full time with benefits (please check our benefits here  https://msysinc.com/benefits/  )    or long term hourly contract (w2/1099/c2c)

Duties

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with staff, management and stakeholders.
• Act as the Scrum Master for Agile meetings: document user stories/requirements, conduct demonstrations and sprint planning meeting with customers, lead development team sprint backlog grooming, estimate work in story points and develop schedules based on sprints, manage iterative testing thru the development cycle, keep track of changing scope throughout the iterative development, understand and help coach other project managers on agile software development methodology.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Plan, schedule, and track project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop best practices and tools for agile project execution and management.
• Develop software documentation such as software management plans, system requirements, test plans, etc.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Direct and manage agile project development from beginning to end.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.

Required Skills

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science/IT/related field plus 8 years of progressive information technology related leadership or Agile project management experience OR a combination of education and work experience (2 years of work experience is considered equivalent to 1 year of formal education)
•  Minimum of 3 years’ direct work experience in a disciplined IT Agile project management framework, including all aspects of process development and execution.
•  Strong familiarity with project management software, such as Microsoft Project and Team Foundation Server/Azure-Dev-Ops as well as technically competent with various software programs, such as Microsoft Office, Excel and SharePoint.
•  Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to work in a team-oriented collaborative environment
•  Highly self-motivated and self-directed
•  Strong customer relationship skills
•  Ability to support a staff of technical subject matter experts during non-standard business hours. 

• SDLC
• QA

Desired Skills

• Active/inactive clearance.
• waterfall to Agile migration

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Rajendra Reddy
His/her contact number is +(1) (202) 4706751
His/her contact email is rajr@msysinc.com

Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.