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.
• Promotes transparency through healthy communications and data integrity.

'- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience., * 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