Senior IT Project Manager - Release Train

Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning.

• Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment.

• Assist Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments.

• Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site Reliability Engineering teams.

• Define the program dashboards to manage and report the status on product implementations.

• Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities.

• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning.

• Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment.

• Assist Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments.

• Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site.

• Reliability Engineering teams.

• Define the program dashboards to manage and report the status on project implementations.

• Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities.

• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.

• Facilitate scrum activities and meetings (daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives) between the Scrum Team and Product Owner(s).

• Lead one or more agile development efforts within the organization.

• Document areas of improvement and action items coming out of the sprint retrospectives.

• Work with Product Owner(s) to keep the backlog(s) groomed.

• Maintain and report on relevant sprint metrics.

• Administer and maintain the accuracy of the scrum board.

• Ensure quality standards for all deliverables and promote continuous process improvement.

• Act as a liaison between Development Teams and Product Management, ensuring that appropriate project process is made.

• Identify and resolve obstacles that may hinder the team from meeting project milestones/deadlines.

• May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

• Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams.

• Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination.

Agile Ceremony Facilitation

• Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams.

• Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management.

• Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process.

• Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.

• Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement.

Delivery Team Support

• Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform.

• Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minimize disruptions.

• Assists in the coordination of operational issue resolution.

• Facilitates team development, mediates conflicts protecting the team and encourages healthy team dynamics.

• Fosters team responsibility, self-accountability, transparency and self-organization.

• Leverages coaching skills to help the team learn to solve its own problems.

Advice and Guidance

• Introduces and encourages team to explore healthy Agile development practices, focus on quality and technical excellence, predictable delivery, automation, and continuous delivery.

• Teaches and encourages a balanced backlog that delivers valuable features for customers, reduces technical debt, provides business value, and enables product sustainability.

• Helps the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements.

Maximus is currently seeking a Senior IT PM - Release Train has primary responsibility of facilitating the learning and growth of two or more Agile teams in developing a lean-Agile mindset, improving practices and guiding them to more predictable delivery. The RTE plays a role in facilitating Agile ceremonies and planning of releases, removing impediments, providing guidance, and supporting Agile teams., '- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education.

• 7+ years of working experience as a dedicated Scrum Master, RTE, or PM

• Scrum Master certification or equivalent certified professional.

• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum or Kanban.

• Working experience with Agile scaling frameworks, preferably SAFe.

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$105,040

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$157,560