IT Project Manager/Senior Scrum Master

• Ensure team and associate Scrum Masters are activity following the guidelines of Scrum and Agile to achieve business objectives with IT products, efforts and delivery teams
• Help a team/individual/product owners/Scrum Masters clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Facilitate team to estimate and plan product/solution in a variety of tools with no supervision
• Ensure team is incorporating feedback from customers, end-users, and key stakeholders to increase value for our customers continually
• Shield teams from outside distraction/interference
• Track and remove impediments with little to no assistance
• Mentor other team members and scrum masters in the agile methodology
• Collaborate with Technical and Solution Architects and SMEs to define program and project scope, goals, and deliverables
• Interpret & communicate business requirements to develop a comprehensive product backlog to reduce risk and enhance quality and delivery of prioritized features/capabilities
• Work with the Product Owner to document and make visible the product/solution scope, goals, and deliverables
• Develop estimates, schedules, effort, and cost based on best practices and experience and provide continual improvement guidance
• Develop and manage a comprehensive plan for products/solutions
• Identify capacity related risks, recommend potential mitigation, and escalate appropriately, and remediate
• Create an environment of accountability within the delivery team
• Work closely with functional product, program, and project team members to fully understand and manage program and project inter-dependencies.
• Execute product delivery based on agile methodologies defined by the enterprise
• Become highly proficient at using DevOps/Agile tooling and related tools
• Work with subject matter experts to ensure that teams are consistently delivering the highest value for feature level/product increments
• Prepare, present and review provided features and capabilities regularly with product owners and stakeholders
• Work with internal and external technology suppliers and product owners to ensure an accurate product/solution budget and manage to it
• Manage scope, communicating risks to scope, sprint timeline, budget, and resolve issues
• Identify, escalate, and assist in the resolution of resource constraints, conflicts, and impediments
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders to meet project deliverables and benefit case
• Ensure product/solution alignment with enterprise standards and processes
• Create an appropriate support model that addresses the support need of the product/solution
• Update technical and job knowledge by learning from more senior-level scrum masters, self-education, read professional publications and participate in educational opportunities

This is a 12-to-15-month temp assignment, working 100% onsite at the San Diego Facility. Role may require you work between the Kearny Mesa and Downtown San Diego location. May have potential to go temp to hire.

Schedule: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm plus overtime as needed.

• 5+ years of agile/scrum experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of directly related experience
• Experience working with 3+ teams simultaneously
• Eight plus years of progressively responsible job-related experience
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated expertise in applying Agile best practices, Scrum ceremonies, and scaled Agile practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a highly collaborative fashion
• Experience in all facets of the software development life cycle (requirements gathering, system design, development, testing, release cycle, support)
• Experience in mentoring Scrum Masters in their community of practice
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) (required)
• Previous experience leading Information Technology programs and projects
• Self-starter, initiative, leadership, excellent judgment, excellent problem solving, excellent communication, and human relations skills
• Mastery of agile software development methodologies
• The ability to facilitate cross-functional teams across the IT organization and related business groups
• Extensive experience using Azure DevOps and similar apps
• Bachelor's in IT, Computer Science, or related field.

Pay Rate: $59.70 per hour

*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.