Senior Technology Program Manager & Scrum Leader

Job Title:
Senior Technology Project Manager / Scrum Master
Location: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Birmingham, AL, Columbia, SC
Type: Permanent Full Time

Responsibilities

• Lead a defined workstream within a larger enterprise technology program, coordinating project planning and execution across the software development lifecycle.
• Manage schedules, requirements, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and delivery metrics.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Prepare executive status reports and support timely issue resolution.
• Coordinate user onboarding activities, including communications, training, access, readiness, production support, and adoption.
• Communicate with technical teams, especially regarding data engineering, SQL, data pipelines, and Python, to support a financial modeling system.

Requirements

• 5+ years managing technology projects and 7+ years of progressive IT experience.
• Strong experience with project planning, schedule management, delivery governance, risks, issues, dependencies, and executive reporting.
• Experience coordinating SDLC activities, including requirements, development, testing, release readiness, deployment, and production transition.
• Scrum Master experience facilitating sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and impediment removal.
• Proficiency with Jira for managing backlogs, stories, defects, dependencies, risks, sprint progress, and delivery metrics.
• Experience using Confluence for project documentation, requirements, decisions, meeting notes, and release communications.
• Strong requirements management, traceability, documentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience coordinating user onboarding, training, access, readiness, support, and adoption.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel for analysis, reconciliation, tracking, project controls, and reporting.
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts, SQL, data pipelines, and Python.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage projects of comparable scope and complexity.
• Financial services experience, particularly with financial modeling systems, is highly desirable.
• Educational Requirements:
  
  Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
• PMP and Scrum Master certification are preferred.

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