Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee multiple IT and Technology projects simultaneously, covering the entire project lifecycle from discovery to delivery
- Coordinate both internal resources and third-party vendors to plan and execute projects effectively
- Lead discovery and planning meetings to define project scope, schedule, milestones, delivery, and release plans
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget by actively managing project timelines and budgets
- Identify and manage project risks to minimize their impact on project outcomes
- Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and collaboration
- Generate project metrics and status reports to provide visibility into project progress
- Continuously measure project performance and communicate key issues to leadership
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business, and Change Management teams to facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and user training before project releases
Qualifications and Experience:
Years Of Experience:
- 7+ years of IT or Technical Project Management experience, leading multiple teams/projects.
- 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
Skills Required:
Agile Management
- Manage multiple Scrum teams concurrently, ensuring effective Agile project management
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and demos with the team and stakeholders
- Lead daily stand-up meetings and remove impediments or blockers to ensure team productivity and keep the sprint on track
- Conduct sprint retrospectives to identify areas for process improvement
- Lead sprint planning sessions and work with Scrum teams to ensure that the sprint aligns with team capacity and velocity
- Collaborate with Scrum teams to deliver the sprint backlog and prepare the team for sprint demos and deployments
- Timely escalate issues or blockers to stakeholders and leadership for resolution
- Maintain and publish Agile Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as sprint velocity, burn-down, and burn-up charts
- Identify and manage dependencies with other internal or external teams to ensure seamless project execution
- Ensure that project management tools like JIRA, SharePoint, and Confluence are used as sources of truth for project-related information
Building Blocks of Success
- Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (advanced degree preferred)
- 7+ years of IT or Technical Project Management experience, leading multiple teams/projects.
- Experience managing large-scale digital transformations or enterprise-level implementations like ERP, P2P, SCM, CRM is required.
- Experience managing IT/Technology projects led by 3rd party vendors.
- 3+ years of Scrum Master experience.
- Knowledge of Agile approaches (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.)
- Demonstrated success using Agile performance metrics to drive team accountability and continuous improvement.
- Experience managing Atlassian products or similar toolsets.
- One or more of the following certifications preferred – PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, any SAFe Certification
- Prior IT delivery experience in consulting and development/technical experience are highly desirable