Project Manager Scrum Master

• Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrumevents, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to upper management, stakeholders and/or, Customers.
• Ensure quality of Scrum execution story cards definition of readiness and done, commitments on-time delivery. Ensure the quality of capabilities and user stories delivered with highest customers experience.
• Works with Product Owner to ensure proper balance between features and high-quality working product.
• Facilitates Release (Planning) Workshop
• Coach the Scrum Team including the Product Owner on agile requirements, agile planning, backlog refinement, best practice, etc.
• Updates teams activities in a project management tracking tool transparency of release vision
• Promotes commonly accepted better Agile/Scrum practices.
• Promotes transparency by ensuring that all Scrum events take place to facilitate opportunities to inspect and adapt
• Coordinates among the Scrum Team and monitors adherence to Scrum practices
• Keeps team focused on current Sprint goals (Big Visible Charts, standup focused)
• Evaluates criteria for product and proposal analysis.

Deliverables:

• Deliver programs and projects on schedule and on budget
• Present projects at the Quality Checkpoints
• Present projects at the Department Level Project Reviews

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, JIRA to deliver solutions.
• 8+ years of experience as a scrum master or in a similar role.
• At least 8 years experience and significant hands-on Program and Project management experience from project initiation to implementation using formal project management methodologies and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders with evidence of willingness and ability to express and protect departmental interests.
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong analytical skills. Leadership and management experience.
• Demonstrated effective communicator and writer, able to tailor message to receiving audience.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated experience using MS Project Office Professional and MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.
• Certifications CSM, SAFe 6 related

Preferred:

• At least five years experience with project management of Information Security related projects.
• At least five years experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project Server (EPM), etc.
• Certifications: PMP and InfoSec - Security+, SSCP and/or CISSP