What you will do
- Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team
- Manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned initiatives
- Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of governance
- Establish cadence and facilitate team ceremonies
- Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work
- Leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for initiatives
- Mentoring and developing team members
- Be a voice of reason and authority, while enabling the team to self-organize and innovate
- Actively participates in product planning sessions, risk management processes and change management/communication
- Track and report on team and project KPIs – Velocity, Burndown, Cycle time, Lead time, capacity, SPI, EV, rate of change requests, errors etc.
- Partners with shared service teams such as EDS, EID
- Ensure that all representatives have an environment conducive to openly and honestly sharing information for Team success
- Communicate clearly, professionally, and regularly with clients, partners and vendors
Must haves
- 5+ years of related experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, or Scrum Master
- 3+ years direct Agile Scrum Master experience
- Experience with Agile Methodologies
- CSM, SSM or PSM certification required
- Experience overseeing multi-function project teams with at least 10-15 team members
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience
- Prior experience in software development as an analyst, tester, developer, or project manager
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles
- Prior experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development initiatives
- Experience managing and delivering large, complex initiatives in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams
- Ability to lead software development initiatives and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands
- Effective communication skills
- Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly-credible leadership to development teams
- Be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
- Effective interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
- Upper-intermediate English level.
Nice to haves
- SASM, CSP, SPS or other advanced certification preferred
About the project
The benefits of joining us
Professional growth
Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps
Competitive compensation
We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities
A selection of exciting projects
Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands
Flextime
Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.
Your AgileEngine journey starts here
Test task
We will review your CV and send you a test task via email
Intro Call
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Technical Interview
You will have an interview with your future team lead