Scrum Master Project Manager

Opportunity available for  highly skilled, team-oriented individual to be  Project Manager for high performance, cross-functional autonomous engineering teams. The successful candidate will be an energizing servant leader, be an enabler and driver, is a self starter and can work in an ambiguous environment, willing to learn and grow, work with technical teams, possess strong interpersonal communication and facilitation skills, be detail-oriented, thorough and results-focused. Qualified candidates must have experience with the software development project lifecycle in an Agile environment have prior Scrum Master and project management experience working in Agile teams.

Responsibilities 

• Manage 2-3 teams with multiple projects facing tight deadlines and dependencies.
• Partner with product development leadership in the definition and ownership of engineering processes for assigned teams.
• Drive to build self-organized product development teams and facilitate issue resolution within the team
• Participate in strategic planning and goal-setting with assigned teams, communicating a clear vision of one’s team.
• Organize scrum ceremonies, working with product development leaders and teams to plan and execute product roadmaps and assist in release planning.
• Build project plans, manage scope and schedule, identify risks and issues and publish status reports.
• Collaborate across various cross functional teams including: Engineering, Product, User Experience, Reliability and Security to ensure everyone is aligned to Project/Program goals.
• Facilitate release planning and scheduling by providing empirical scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies and mitigate risks.
• Own the identification and management of cross-team dependencies and be able to work across teams to achieve team’s objectives
• Engage program management to establish KPI’s and use the metrics to track team progress and decision making.
• Develop working knowledge of technologies to manage development tasks, identify and resolve issues and effectively communicate with stakeholders.
• You'll start each day with a scrum, working with a team to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate coding priorities.

Qualifications 

• 5+ years experience in a software development organization as an ScrumMaster and/or Agile Project Manager.
• Experience with Agile at scale (e.g. SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS)
• Strong understanding of the Software Development project life cycle
• Certification: CSM
• Familiar with technical constructs, process and development frameworks.
• Familiar with different software development best practices (BDD, TDD, pair programming, etc.)
• Has planned and executed on complex and large-scale cross-team initiatives.
• Has good understanding of development metrics and the use of dashboards / reports to radiate information.
• Has experience in identifying, fielding, and mitigating inter-team and intra-team conflict, and team/initiative roadblocks.
• A PMI certification is a plus.