*Hi,*
This is *Sushmitha* from *Innovative Information Technologies,* please find the requirement mentioned below with one of our Clients and please respond with your Consultant’s updated profile. *Below is the Job Description for your reference:* *Role: Sr. Agile Project Manager* *Location: Costa Mesa, CA* *Duration: 8+ Months* *Interview: In-Person interview is a MUST* • Experience in a Waterfall-to-Agile transition is what the client is really looking for. • These PMs must have leadership skills and possess political awareness. They will be working with project teams, helping to develop SCRUM teams internally and also managing a portfolio of projects at the PMO level. (Traditional task master PM style is not what they are looking for.) • PMs most have dynamic and friendly communication styles with a “driver” style. The culture is in a state of transformation so the PMs need to look ahead and anticipate next steps. The environment is similar to a high tech start-up and the projects are in consumer services for financial/credit services. Looking for someone with high energy, professional and politically savvy. *Job Responsibilities:* - Will perform as an Agile Coach working across the program portfolio to help increase the agile maturity of the software development teams; Will help improve, manage, and grow the agile process - Will maximize use of technology to encourage close collaboration of distributed (on shore and offshore) teams of product managers, developers, and QA testers to resource, define, and schedule activities required to develop and launch new software - Responsible for driving effective scrum ceremonies including daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives - Responsible for tracking and distributing relevant metrics and reports periodically to show team progress and velocity - Identify and understand impediments and help remove them and drive improvements to optimize how the team works - Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining(aka grooming) and managing the product backlog; help Product Owner to manage customer expectations and stakeholder communications *Knowledge and Skills:* - Demonstrated experience with widely successful agile methods and techniques: Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework, Kanban etc. - Excellent servant leadership and interpersonal skills - Must possess and utilize exceptional communication skills to keep teams operating at maximum efficiency while also insuring senior leaders and executive management are informed of progress at all times - Demonstrated ability to build, develop, and coach high performing software development teams - Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc) - Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment and work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work - Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.) - Ability to build and maintain relationships with external vendors, internal partners - Demonstrated strength in problem definition and resolution - Moderate to expert-level knowledge of Atlassian (JIRA, Jira Agile, Confluence) or other Agile tools to measure team productivity and report metrics *Qualifications: * - Bachelor’s Degree (Ideally in Business or Computer Science/Engineering) - One or more related certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) - 4+ yrs. of project management experience in technical development or consulting environment - 3+ yrs. of experience playing Scrum master/Agile Project Manager especially in large programs involving multiple scrum teams - Experience in a waterfall-to-agile transition is a plus *Thanks & Regards* *Sushmitha* *Sr Technical IT Recruiter* *Innovative Information Technologies Inc.* WBENC; NY WBE; NMSDC Certified Minority Supplier sushmi...@innovativeinfotech.com | www.innovativeinfotech.com 609-751-0690, Ext 219 | Fax: 609-228-5326 [image: cid:image001.png@01D105AE.6C47D3B0] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Companies Looking for IT Out Staffing & Recruitment" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to arunsinh+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to arunsinh@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/arunsinh. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
