Job summary:

Job description:

*** Very long term project; Long term - usually goes for 3+ years***Webcam interview; initial remote due to covid then onsite *** 37.5 hours per week ***

Primary responsibilities include:

• Coaching team members in self-management and cross-functionality.
• Developing and maintaining project documents in accordance with enterprise project management methodologies and as needed by the project.
• Developing detailed project plans using project scheduling tools.
• Leading all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources.
• Motivating project resources to complete assigned duties and tasks.
• Preparing formal reports on the status and health of the IT projects, including periodic status reports, management dashboards and project metrics.
• Helping the product owner find effective techniques for managing the product backlog.
• Facilitating risk and issue management for IT projects by promoting transparency and communication for identified risks.
• Facilitating deliverable and project artifact approval processes.
• Working with the product owner to address any changes that impact the quality, schedule or budget of the project.
• Facilitating project meetings as needed, including scrum events such as retrospectives and reviews.
• Ensuring the upkeep and accuracy of the project in the project portfolio management system (Daptiv) to include project status, health, and timekeeping data.
• Working closely with agency business relationship managers, executive staff, and delivery center management to ensure project success and provide project status.
• Using knowledge of agile practices and frameworks (in particular Scrum and Kanban) to support and serve the agile teams in the delivery center.
• Serving as scrum master for agile development teams.
• Influencing and leading organizational change that positively impacts our agile teams.
• Providing and delivering project reports, presentations, and statuses to all levels of management with the delivery center and our customer agencies.
• Ensuring compliance with SDLC policies and procedures 
• Directing, coordinating, and tracking the activities of delivery center staff associated with the project.

Required Experience

1. Required: 6+ years full-time experience as a project manager for large and complex information technology projects.
2. Required: 2+ years full-time experience serving as a scrum master on a scrum team.
3. Required: Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate at all levels of an organization, including executive staff.
4. Required: Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate others to complete tasks.
5. Desired: PMP or scrum master certification.
6. Desired: 2+ years of experience in utilizing agile project management methodologies

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Gowtham Reddy(Shaji Team)
His/her contact number is +(1) (205) 5983015
His/her contact email is gowtham.reddy@msysinc.com

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