Senior Agile Project Manager at Sky Solutions LLC

Responsibilities

• Works closely with Project Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure high-quality project delivery within an established project schedule, scope, and budget.
• Ensures teams deliver according to project plan and schedule.
• Participates in Agile ceremonies and planning, including stand-up meetings, sprint demos, and retrospectives.
• Participates and helps facilitate Scrum of Scrums meetings to prioritize and schedule ODST’s portfolio of work.
• Participates in business requirement analysis sessions and contributes to project plan development, including setting critical milestones and allocating delivery resources.
• Defines project milestones while working with business stakeholders, business partners, PMO staff, and technical managers to build delivery timeline.
• Maintains a strategic perspective of business drivers and technology capabilities.
• Manages project risks and develops mitigation plans to ensure on-time delivery.
• Acts as the liaison between project delivery teams, management, and business stakeholders while communicating through Scrum Masters and Business Partners.
• Contributes to monthly, quarterly, and on-demand report from the PMO, for a wide variety of audiences, including senior leadership.
• Performs vendor/contract management responsibilities, including managing external vendor/contract relationships, coordinating the vendor/contract selection processes, and monitoring vendor/contract performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required in Information Technology or a related field.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Executive Coach (CEC), or equivalent professional certification preferred.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience with agile practices, patterns, and techniques.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience managing information technology projects.
• Minimum of 7+ years of professional experience in an IT environment.
• Demonstrated project management experience in an agile environment and ability to work on multiple priorities/projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.
• Experience using both traditional waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in task management, risk management, and scope management.
• Ability to communicate about technical matters with business stakeholders and business matters with technical stakeholders.
• Experience with delivery methodologies in a fast-paced, complex environment – i.e., Scrum, SAFe, Extreme Programming.
• Experience with project management tools – i.e., MS Project, Atlassian Jira, SharePoint.
• Must have experience managing vendors/contractors.
• Must have experience establishing and communicating best practices.
• Must have experience with budget and cost management, as well as contract/procurement processes.
• Experience operating in a community of practice model strongly preferred.
• A self-starter able to administer a number of open, ongoing assignments at any one time, where some assignments are routinely unstructured, requiring autonomy and independent judgment. Ability to clearly articulate a position with sound logic, supporting empirical evidence, and impartiality.
• Ability to effectively represent the organization to a variety of both internal and external constituencies.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.