Technical Project Manager (Agile, Scrum) II - Partners Consulting, Inc.

Philadelphia, PA 19103

About the Job

Title: Technical Project Manager (Agile, Scrum) II
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type: Contract

Our client is seeking a Technical Project Manager (Agile, Scrum) II who will be responsible for managing one or more highly complex or enterprise-wide domain(s) consisting of multiple projects.

Key Accountabilities:

Analyzes data and synthesizes information into meaningful reports that helps drive milestones.
Ensures integration of projects and adjusts project scope and timing as needed, based on the needs of the business.
Communicates with Senior leadership and business stakeholders on project strategy, direction, and changes.
Responsible for delivering all projects contained in the IT project portfolio on time and meeting the strategic and business requirements.
Responsible for tracking key project milestones and recommending adjustments to Project Managers.
Organizes and facilitates Agile ceremonies (planning, grooming, review, retrospective and daily standups).
Establish milestones and monitor adherence to plans and schedules, identify delivery risks, and obtain/drive mitigation strategies and solutions.
Coordinate across multiple engineering/development teams as needed.
Serve as a conduit between the business and engineering to ensure requirements and design considerations are incorporated to improve deployment and sustainability of projects.
Escalates risks and issues for roadblocks.
Analyzes risks and cross-functional requirements (overall).
Defines development processes and SLAs.
Ensures that the team delivers high-quality products to end users, within the agreed upon time-to-market deadlines.
Guides the Domain Lead's team in writing user stories, capturing customer feedback and participating in product demos.
Guides the Developers in writing tickets including granularity, story pointing, t-shirt sizing, and JIRA implementation.
Supports and educates the Team to best align with the Agile processes where implemented.
Manages and maintains collaboration and data repository tools (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, etc.).
Daily updates from the team.
Update Product board on a daily basis based on development activities. Use the user stories to build the product board and create traceability to all active tasks.
Backlog refinement sessions ( "definition of ready” by adding key contextual information and acceptance criteria).
Ownership of the product board including target dates and task assignments.
Updates weekly status reports for each project they manage.
Create and update product backlog for each of their projects.
Updates release calendar when release date is announced/scheduled within the product/scrum team.
Update release notes upon confirming the release scope add a placeholder if you don't have one yet).
Schedule and facilitate agile ceremonies for all projects.
Schedule and/or facilitate Domain Intake Meetings and maintain Domain Intake meeting agenda and meeting minutes.

Required Skills:

7 to 10 years Project Management experience in an Agile environment.
Bachelors or master's degree in computer science, Business Administration, or other related field—or equivalent work experience.
CSM (Scrum Master Certification) is required.
Must possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of Project Management methodologies and tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills conducive to team development; able to work well in cross-functional teams.
Experienced Scrum Master who will exhibit agile leadership and a deep understanding of what it means to conduct oneself as a servant leader.

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Source : Partners Consulting, Inc.