Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master
Description:
The Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master is responsible to effectively and efficiently manage the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing software company where you’ll have the opportunity guide the development of our portfolio of products.
Responsibilities:
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· Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
· Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
· Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
· Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
· Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
· Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
· Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
· Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
· Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
· Implement and support principles, rules and processes
· Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
· Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution
· Presents high level project readouts for senior management
· Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
· Manage other special projects as assigned
· Other duties as needed
Skills and Qualifications:
BS/MS degree in software engineering or equivalent work experience
Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
Self-motivated, organized
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Up to Rs300,000.00 per month
