IT Project Manager

• PM in related field required and 10+ years relevant work experience – Application Development
• Scrum Certification (Desired)
• PMP Certification (Desired).
• Experience in managing cross-functional and remote teams.
• Experience with MS Project.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Experience with Visio.
• One Plan, Power BI, and Kanban helpful
• Seasoned mature professional, Assertive, Accountable, Conflict resolution skills, will be dealing with a variety of different personalities.

Serve as the IT Department’s key link with business clients/product owners and development teams on key projects utilizing agile, waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies. Ensure cross-functional projects are successful by providing client support and ensuring business objectives are being met while managing the project scope, duration, and spending.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate the definition of project scope, level of effort, strategic alignment, stakeholders, and business value.
• Engage with the business and technology leads.
• Facilitate project planning, development of user stories and estimates, and sprint planning.
• Facilitate and assist with business analysis and project design.
• Establish project priorities, and manage resources, budgets, timelines, deliverables, risks, issues, and all other project management functions.
• Engage all project stakeholders at appropriate stages in each project to ensure that project work is moving toward useful outcomes.
• Provide meaningful progress and feedback reporting that will allow project stakeholders to make course corrections.
• Assist with vendor resource management.
• Foster an environment of successful delivery and continuous improvement.
• Manage the scrum process with the coordination of the scrum team in agile methodology.
• Remove impediments faced by the scrum team.
• Arrange daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo, and decision-making processes to facilitate swift response/feedback from the business teams.
• Help product owners keep the product backlogs in decent shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
• Facilitate group sessions such as retrospectives, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and stand-ups.
• Be effective in influencing individuals and groups.
• Independently initiate, identify, research, investigate, analyze, define, and document client requirements to support company objectives.
• Identify all affected stakeholders for a project.
• Conduct and/or participate in the analysis of client business processes and functional requirements and in the preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the information.
• Identify overlaps and related processes.
• Coordinate installation and first use of new applications.
• Resolve issues related to an application (new or current) involving, as required, team members, vendors, clients, etc., and escalate as needed.

  Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

•  Experience complex IT projects.
• Understanding of the Agile and Scrum Methodology
• Own the development of project plans using the associated project planning tools, which include work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, detailed tasks, and deliverables.
• Provide status on project milestones, alerting client/ project manager of any potential delays.
• Assist with the design and implementation of training programs for clients of new enhanced applications.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Ability to be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize and prioritize work.
• Formidable team building and collaboration skills.
• Strong history as a relationship builder with effective negotiation skills and proven interpersonal communication skills
• Proven ability to effectively communicate issues both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to drive teams to resolve issues and deliver successfully.

 Education/Experience Requirements

•  Well-versed in SDLC process knowledge.
• Scrum experience / Certification.
• PMP Certification (Desired).
• Experience in managing cross-functional and remote project teams.
• Experience with MS Project.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Experience with Visio.