Project Manager - IT - Mastery at Axelon Services Corporation
Springfield, MA
About the Job
Job Title: Project Manager - IT - Mastery
8 months contract
This position may be fully remote.
Duties: Accountability
This individual is key to ensuring execution is monitored at team level, team maintains the factory model & provides escalation as needed. Entrenched in details of the team. Can span between 3 &4 teams.
Execution & Delivery (Team Level)
Daily monitoring of the team's or multiple team's execution status and progress. This includes review of JIRA board for the team, checking comments on issues & escalating accordingly if blocked.
Help each team that you manage to clear blockages and resolve issues. This could be through escalation.
Partner with the Delivery Lead and Tech Leads in the process/providing them insight into blocked work on the team execution.
Run daily huddle, and ensure team is on schedule and is building per the requirements / specification (design).
Facilitate & prepare sprint review meetings with the team (determine who will do team demoes, what work has been accomplished, has the project's goals been met).
Outline and share risks/decisions and update on confluence.
In order to improve execution & manage the factory model, perform retros with the team; also ensure team is adhering to team agreements.
Monitor slack and email throughout the day.
Manage dependencies with the entire API set of teams.
Prepare for sprint review meetings by preparing materials and potentially team slides - verifying data on the slides and making sure the API Leaders know all of the details about what is happening; be prepared for questions.
Ability to ask technical questions to team members and to push back and ask more questions when items don't appear to make sense.
Validate responses from team members when questions and issues arise. Do this through escalation to Tech Leader or Architects.
Reporting
Sprint Review Reporting.
Update at the beginning of each sprint, the sprint dashboard and the prod support dashboard.
Coaching:
Coach team on items like sprint dashboard - ensuring work is complete, subtasks, unplanned work.
Build hierarchy in Jira with Senior Scrum Master in USA.
Coaching to ensure grooming improves.
Jira set up and use.
Planning:
Work on sprint capacity updates based on the calendar.
Be informed and involved in future requirements that need to be brought in
Update at the beg of each sprint, the sprint dashboard and the prod support dashboard.
Update the one-page reports on week to prep for current sprint updates.
Skills
Jira Expert.
Scrum Expert.
Excellent organizational and PM Skills.
Deep knowledge of Office tools.... Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Confluence, and G-Drive knowledgeable.
Organized/stay on top of things to ensure smooth execution & supporting Delivery Lead
Strong communication skills with ability to think and speak extemporaneously.
Ability to give updates comfortably in front of up to 50 people.
8 months contract
This position may be fully remote.
Duties: Accountability
This individual is key to ensuring execution is monitored at team level, team maintains the factory model & provides escalation as needed. Entrenched in details of the team. Can span between 3 &4 teams.
Execution & Delivery (Team Level)
Daily monitoring of the team's or multiple team's execution status and progress. This includes review of JIRA board for the team, checking comments on issues & escalating accordingly if blocked.
Help each team that you manage to clear blockages and resolve issues. This could be through escalation.
Partner with the Delivery Lead and Tech Leads in the process/providing them insight into blocked work on the team execution.
Run daily huddle, and ensure team is on schedule and is building per the requirements / specification (design).
Facilitate & prepare sprint review meetings with the team (determine who will do team demoes, what work has been accomplished, has the project's goals been met).
Outline and share risks/decisions and update on confluence.
In order to improve execution & manage the factory model, perform retros with the team; also ensure team is adhering to team agreements.
Monitor slack and email throughout the day.
Manage dependencies with the entire API set of teams.
Prepare for sprint review meetings by preparing materials and potentially team slides - verifying data on the slides and making sure the API Leaders know all of the details about what is happening; be prepared for questions.
Ability to ask technical questions to team members and to push back and ask more questions when items don't appear to make sense.
Validate responses from team members when questions and issues arise. Do this through escalation to Tech Leader or Architects.
Reporting
Sprint Review Reporting.
Update at the beginning of each sprint, the sprint dashboard and the prod support dashboard.
Coaching:
Coach team on items like sprint dashboard - ensuring work is complete, subtasks, unplanned work.
Build hierarchy in Jira with Senior Scrum Master in USA.
Coaching to ensure grooming improves.
Jira set up and use.
Planning:
Work on sprint capacity updates based on the calendar.
Be informed and involved in future requirements that need to be brought in
Update at the beg of each sprint, the sprint dashboard and the prod support dashboard.
Update the one-page reports on week to prep for current sprint updates.
Skills
Jira Expert.
Scrum Expert.
Excellent organizational and PM Skills.
Deep knowledge of Office tools.... Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Confluence, and G-Drive knowledgeable.
Organized/stay on top of things to ensure smooth execution & supporting Delivery Lead
Strong communication skills with ability to think and speak extemporaneously.
Ability to give updates comfortably in front of up to 50 people.