Agile Project Manager

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The selected candidate will be allowed to work remotely until all staff return to site. Local candidates only (living within 1 hour from the location) candidate must have a local state .

• Provide project management using agile practices and principles for various projects and products.
• Advises the teams as well as leadership on agile processes, procedures, values, and interactions as well as opportunities for continuous improvement and strives in enabling teams to become self-organizing, cross-functional, and accountable while assisting them to achieve their development goals, removing impediments, and resolving issues outside of the team's control.
• Facilitate prioritization and planning of efforts for one or more products to a high standard.
• Must be coachable and know how to work with Product Owners/Managers, Scrum/flow Masters, and Stakeholders
• Work as a good team player based on Agile principle to enable understanding, learning and behaviors that drives customer and business value.
• Provide scrum/flow master support to assigned team(s), understand technical need of team efforts
• Authoring all project management artifacts following the practices and guidelines from the PMI's PMBOK or Scaled Agile
• Help develop project budget/resource/timeline planning
• Monitoring expenditures, ensuring that project plans and schedules are established and maintained
• Conduct formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders, ensure that appropriate project controls are instituted
• Help developing Federally required documents as requested, and status documents.

• Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs.
• Strong experience in understanding and implementation of Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum)
• Development of business/functional requirements, RFI's, RFP's, Federal level reporting documentation and systems analysis.
• Strong hands-on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Experience in business planning, program management, project management in multi-platform environments.
• Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.
• Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the program/project.
• Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks.
• Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders.
• Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.
• Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.
• Hand-on experience in software development and debugging using programming language like Java or .Net/C# etc.
• Hands-on SQL experience in relational database like Oracle, SQL Server etc.

• Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification.
• Knowledge of Dev Ops practices.