Technical Project Manager
We are seeking a highly skilled, team-oriented individual to be a Technical Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master for high performing, 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.
Responsibilities
Able to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines and dependencies.
Defines and owns all engineering process for your teams.
Be a part of strategic planning and goal setting for your teams and communicates a clear vision of one’s team.
Organizes scrum ceremonies, work with product teams to build product roadmaps and assist in release planning.
Builds project plans, manage scope and schedule, identify risks and issues and publish status reports.
Collaborates across various cross functional teams including Engineering, Product, User Experience, Reliability and Security to ensure everyone is aligned to Project/Program goals.
Facilitates in release planning and scheduling by providing empirical scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies and mitigate risks.
Owns the identification and management of cross-team dependencies and be able to work across teams to achieve team’s objectives
Works with PMO to establish KPI’s and use the metrics to track team progress and decision making.
Develops working knowledge of technologies to manage development tasks, identify and resolve issues and effectively communicate with stakeholders.
Drives to build self-organized development teams and facilitate issue resolution within the team
Qualifications
3+ years in an Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master in an engineering organization.
Strong understanding of the Software Development project life cycle.
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 a good understanding of development metrics and the use of dashboards / reports to radiate information.
A background in software development is a plus.