Specialized Project Manager at Kforce Inc.

Greenwood Village, CO 80111

About the Job

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Specialized Project Manager in Greenwood Village, CO. Summary: The Specialized Project Manager, known on this team as the back-end integration analyst (BEIA), manages the entire project lifecycle from intake through delivery to production. In this capacity, the BEIA is responsible for performing elements of the roles Business Analyst, Agile Coach, Project Manager, Scrum Master, and Delivery Manager. The BEIA does not occupy every role every day, nor do they need to be an expert or former practitioner of each, but must have facility with the terminology, processes, and practices that these roles are responsible for. The BEIA must absolutely possess the critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and familiarity with the roles or their equivalents in other methodologies, sufficient to act as the team's Scrum Master, Project Manager, and Business Analyst on a day-to-day basis. Responsibilities:

Performs intake in accordance with Data Platforms Orchestration Services team process
Creates necessary JIRA tickets from provided requirements
Guides the development team through estimation and sprint planning, and tracks development deliverables to completion while ensuring project and program teams, as well as the development team's leadership, are kept up to date on project status on an ongoing basis
Ensures that the engineering team understands, and works on tasks in accordance with, project priority
Assists the team's senior manager with determining and managing development team capacity and communicates and tracks progress against committed timelines
Maintains roadmap status so that stakeholders, both within Data Platforms Orchestration Services organization and within client organizations, are aware of project status, risks, open items, blockers, and committed delivery timeline

Requirements:

Possess excellent oral and written communication skills
Possess strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
Possess the ability to remain effective in their role in a crisis
Possess the willingness to request help or knowledge when needed
Possess the ability to function on their own with modern office software or learn it quickly enough not to disrupt the team's effectiveness
Possess the professional decorum to communicate with team members from junior developers through leadership at the senior director and VP level as needed
Ability to write effective requirements documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, and software test guidelines
Ability to troubleshoot and investigate software behavior using a browser's included developer tools, Splunk, Datadog, and an API client
Able to help members of other teams understand the needs and communications of the software development team
Able to help the development team understand the needs and communications of stakeholders and Data Platforms Orchestration Services leadership
Able to work to learn and, ideally, master the software tools listed below
Willing to learn and understand the architecture and overall functionality of the software services the development team is responsible for
Should be comfortable with, or eager and able to learn, the following tools: Atlassian Confluence; Atlassian JIRA; Drupal CMS; Apollo Studio; Swagger UI; Datadog; Splunk; Karate (KarateLabs test platform)
Should be comfortable with, or eager and able to learn about, the following technologies and concepts: REST APIs; GraphQL APIs; Content Management Systems; Blue/Green or Canary deployment; Kubernetes; Helm Charts; Microservice architecture; Cloud-based software environments; Cloud-native software development
Willing to be onsite 3 days/week

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.