Senior Project Manager

Job Description

About the jobIts fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what theyre doing!Qualifications:

• BS, MS degree in CS, SE, AI, or Data Science.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in an Agile environment.
• Proven experience identifying a Scrum team?s gaps in the Scrum framework and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on Scrum values, Agile manifesto values, and principle
• Experienced in coaching new Agile teams, cross-functional team members (Dev, QA, BA, Architecture), Product Owners, and Product Managers to achieve best practices
• Strong coaching and mentorship experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Professional Scrum Master experience in any well-known software environment
• Must be a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from an accredited certification body
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) will be preferred
• Proven experience in coaching the Product Owner in some of the product backlog management techniques e.g.: Agile user stories with acceptance criteria and breaking them down into smaller tasks to achieve a high degree of transparency
• Demonstrated ability to teach, coach, inspire and motivate people to change their values and practices as evidenced by experience persuading key stakeholders (like Executive Sponsors, program/project managers, and line managers) to become servant leaders and to empower people who use the Scrum framework
• Proven experience to create transparency using Information radiators for example helping teams create velocity tracking and graphs (e.g. Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown) using either Agile project management software (e.g. JIRA, DevOps) or advanced Microsoft Excel skills so that the team(s) can monitor the progress themselves
• IT healthcare domain knowledge will be preferable.

• Agile Project Management for high-end Product Development
• Agile Estimating, Planning, and Forecasting
• Servant leadership
• Coaching Agile Practices and Scrum Values to cultivate the right culture
• Facilitate interactions (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective)
• Inter-team and intra-team conflict resolution
• Removing impediments and roadblocks
• Creating communication channels (Organization, Product Owner, Developers, Stakeholder)
• Processes and Policies Implementation

• Serve as a servant leader to the team(s), establishing and maintaining an environment where the team(s) can be effective, fostering a relationship between the team and the Product Owner as well as other dependent teams, and protecting the team from outside interruptions
• To encourage open communication and transparency while focusing on predictability, quality delivery, continuous improvement of the team, and overall program execution
• Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team
• Responsible for managing the Scrum teams developing products using Agile methodology.
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitated meetings, scheduled meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of the adaptation process
• Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings
• Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting
• Helps Product Owner to maintain the product backlogs in good shape and ready for the next sprints.
• Should be a problem solver, and avid learner with the behavioral attribute of respect, integrity, innovation, and teamwork.
• Resolve conflict using Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect.
• Needs to be an expert in estimation and planning. Should know how to create useful, reliable, and practical plan(s) for software development project(s)
• Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practice(s) and work product(s)
• Maintain Agile chart(s), ratio(s), and metric(s) that provide organization visibility and insight about the team morale, quality, and productivity showing continuous improvement
• Utilizes team feedback and metric(s) to identify opportunities and improvement area(s) for the team(s).
• To coach individuals and interactions over processes, best practices, and tools and about Agile Scrum to deliver successful deliverables
• Help team or individual to clarify goal(s) and actions to achieve them
• Ability to shield team(s) from outside distractions and interferences
• Ability to ensure the correct use of the Scrum process
• Developing the ability to help onboard or acts as a mentor to Scrum Masters with less experience
• Proactively identify risk(s) /impediment(s) and facilitate quick resolution(s) using company networks such as PMO, IT, CS, HR, Enterprise Management, and other departments, for impediment removal
• Track the preparation work required in readiness for future sprints in the form of backlog refinement and show-stopper impediments removal
• Monitor team velocity to be effectively used for product backlog planning
• Holds experience in educating and promotion of Agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, Test-driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and refactoring preferred
• Ability to evaluate and inspect the performance of the team(s) and individual quarterly with transparency using proven key performance indicators.
• Become a career coach for the team members to understand and identify their natural talent and forte; groom their competencies, career paths, and personalities to reach their fullest potential.
• Build a solid understanding of the US HealthCare IT domain ? Provide feedback to the Business Analysis team on the documentation and UXI
• Close collaboration with Client Services to watch Support tickets SLAs and opportunities for improvements

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