Project Manager - IT

TECHNICAL SKILLSET REQUIRED:

- Degree in Computer Science or related field

- 7-8 years of experience in managing IT Projects in an Agile environment

- Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle

- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices

- Certified Scrum Master is a big plus

- Significant experience in Project Management implementation using agile methodologies (Iterative, Scrum, Kanban)

- Experience in driving Projects in rapidly changing fast paced agile software development environments.

- Familiar with Sprint Planning, User Stories, Release Planning, Scrum Ceremonies Managing projects, Facilitating Requirements Gathering sessions

- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

- Able to manage partners through clear understanding and ability to apply the concepts of risk management, conflict management, stakeholder management and change management

- Proven ability to lead, monitor and motivate distributed engineering teams and get the most out of self-organizing them

- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity

- Hands Experience in working on Project management tools like (Jira, Confluence, Trello)

- Professional attitude, with strong attention to detail. Dedicated and pragmatic with regards to problem solving

- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and demonstrates ability to work independently communicate/understand highly skilled engineering teams with confidence

- Experience in creating various reports and dashboards for stakeholders

ROLE:

- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least three year for a software development team that was diligently applying Agile and Scrum principles, practices, and theory.

- Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of agile adaptation process

- Own the Software Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across for multiple applications across various portfolios. The releases can be inclusive of new platform development, application updates, operating system patches, security improvements or any Projects and Programs

- Planning, scheduling, tracking and managing Sprint milestones and deliverables

- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

- Able to set own high standards of performance and delivering results

- Coordinate across cross-functional projects, proactively identifying dependencies and risks between different teams at different locations

- Effectively manage Sprints within schedule and to excellent quality standards

- Manage software product life cycle processes to facilitate high quality product releases

- Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews

- Maintain high-level understanding of all projects across the organization and consider impact of a release with other ongoing / upcoming projects

- Continually work towards making improvements in the Scrum process

- Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

- Help teams and organization is adoption of agile as a framework

QUALIFICATION:

- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

- 6+ years of hands on experience in project/program management out of which 3 yrs in Agile Scrum role

- Solid understanding of Project management principles along with knowledge in agile preferred

- Formal Training or any certification in Project Management & Agile practices