IT PM / Scrum Master

Job Description

Day to Day
*Liaise with Business, Scrum teams and Technical Stakeholders
* Strong communicator to various levels of management
* PM/Scrum Master on dedicated team
*Manage project activities through all life cycles (utilizing Service Now, ADO, SharePoint, proprietary software, etc.) to ensure the best quality product is delivered
*Report on project activities
*Provide input to Annual Financial Plan
*Experience with Azure Dev Ops & ServiceNow

Project Leadership
* Manages the full life cycle of the project following SDLC
* Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute:
* Scope Management
* Schedule Management
* Issue/Risk Management
* PI Planning
* Communications Management
* Change Management
* Quality Management
* Vendor Management
* Contract Management
* Uses tools to manage ongoing team efforts, updating release schedules, staffing profiles, roadmaps, applications docs, and monthly reports.
*Ensures on-time and on-budget delivery of projects through organizing, developing and routinely forecasting project plans
* Change Leadership – Manages the transition to ensure adoption of change, builds strong partnerships and communication plans with all project stakeholders and project team members
* Adheres to the PM processes and actively prepares for / participates in all structured project reviews

Leading Projects
* Lead as a PM/Scrum Master on a dedicated team supporting Scrum Ceremonies
* Leads and engages small to medium size scrum teams simultaneously
*Ensures alignment of all project roles and responsibilities and they are articulated to each team member, modified as required, and accomplished throughout the project
*Takes initiative to improve processes, team organization, and reporting
* Monitors and measures staff/resource assignment results against project / task goals and accountabilities

Communication
* Proactively provides consistent, concise, relevant, reliable and timely information to all appropriate internal and external audiences/stakeholders
* Ensures accuracy of information to enable effective business decisions
* Proven ability to not only lead scrum ceremonies but tangible experience of executing PI Planning and helping teams achieve agreed upon outcomes