JPS Tech Solutions · 1 day ago
Agile Project Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expJPS Tech Solutions is seeking an Agile Project Manager to ensure the team adheres to agile values and principles while delivering high-quality products. The role involves coaching the Scrum Team, facilitating scrum events, and managing project scope, resources, and communication with stakeholders.
Information TechnologyIT InfrastructureSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers
Helps team to achieve a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques
Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally
Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams
Resolves team impediments and limits the external interference the team must deal with
Ensure transparency and collaboration across the team and other teams working and works with other Scrum Masters across the organization to facilitate scrum of scrum events
Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role
Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization
Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective etc
Facilitates cross team collaboration, and Scrum of Scrum level events
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team
Track and monitor progress daily and help the team achieve their commitments and when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining (aka grooming) and managing the product backlog and road mapping
Collaborate with the team in scheduling work, including defect remediation and refactoring, guarding against the accumulation of technical debt
Manage and report the status of scope, schedule, resourcing, and financials. Including tracking budget and product metrics
Qualification
Required
Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, collaboration, increasing transparency, and root cause analysis
Extensive knowledge of program and project management principles and methods
Knowledge of multiple PPM and agile frameworks (i.e. Waterfall, Hybrid, Scrum, XP, Kanban, LeSS, etc.)
Clear understanding of software development life cycle models
Adept at understanding requirements, refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Visio, ServiceNow and all MS Office Tools
Understanding of financial controls needed in project management and consulting work, experience with budget tracking
In-depth understanding of how to scope and estimate work
Understanding of execution metrics and how to leverage for teams' continuous improvement and reporting
Experience working with multiple teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
Proficient in Visio, MS Excel, PowerPoint and other Office applications to build process flows and presentations
Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of product/project development experience on an Agile Team
Must have first level PM and Scrum Master certification PMI-PMP, (CSM) (PSM), PMI-ACP
Preferred
Lean Six Sigma certification a plus
PMI- PgMP®
Second or Third level Scrum Master certification (A-CSM, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)
CSPO or equivalent
Track record of continued and recent education in Project/Program Management and Agile/Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc
Company
JPS Tech Solutions
JPS Tech Solutions offers software engineering, cloud, mobile development, and IT infrastructure solutions.
201-500 employees
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