IT Project Manager/Scrum Master
Location: Vienna, Virginia - Remote
Category: Project Management
Employment Type: Contract
Job ID: 15848
Date Added: 09/19/2023
- IT Project Management experience with a focus on supporting software upgrades
- Strong communicator to various levels of management
- Liaise with Business, Scrum teams and Technical Stakeholders
- PM/Scrum Master on dedicated team
- Manage project activities through all life cycles (utilizing Service Now, SharePoint, proprietary software, etc.) to ensure the best quality product is delivered
- Report on project activities
- Provide input to Annual Financial Plan (budget)
- Experience with configuration management
- Experience and knowledge of IT security policies is desired
- Experience managing software development and deployment into test and production environments is required
- Experience with Service Now is strongly desired
Project Leadership
- Manages the full life-cycle of the project following SDLC
- Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute:
- Scope Management, Schedule Management, Issue/Risk Management, Procurement Management, Communications Management, Change Management , Quality Management, Vendor Management, Contract Management
- Uses tools to manage ongoing team efforts, updating release schedules, staffing profiles, roadmaps, applications docs, and monthly reports.
- Ensures on-time and on-budget delivery of projects through organizing, developing and routinely forecasting project plans and project budget to ensure
- Change Leadership – Manages the transition to ensure adoption of change, builds strong partnerships and communication plans with all project stakeholders and project team members
- Adheres to the PM processes and actively prepares for / participates in all structured project reviews
Leading Projects
- Lead as a PM/Scrum Master on a dedicated team supporting IT software and hardware upgrades and rollouts.
- Leads and engages multiple small to medium projects simultaneously focused on a portfolio of applications, all components of a larger business solution.
- Ensures alignment of all project roles and responsibilities and they are articulated to each team member, modified as required, and accomplished throughout the project
- Takes initiative to improve processes, team organization, and reporting
- Monitors and measures staff/resource assignment results against project / task goals and accountabilities
- Develop and maintain effective rapport with vendors, experience reviewing invoices and overseeing work/deliverables
- Proactively provides consistent, concise, relevant, reliable and timely information to all appropriate internal and external audiences/stakeholders through a variety of media
- Ensures accuracy of information to enable effective business decisions
Qualifications
- 7 -10 Years IT Project Management experience with a focus on supporting software upgrades is required.
- Prior experience working in the Financial Industry with Debit Card processing is desired.
- An active PMP Certification is required
- The position is full time remote but it is desired to be local to either Vienna, Virginia, Winchester Virginia or Pensacola Florida
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Nice to Have
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) – Nice to Have
- Proven experience as a PM/Scrum Master utilizing a S/W development life cycle.
- Strong focus on delivery and actively turns lessons learned into better and faster ways to deliver. (Courageous servant leadership)
- SharePoint, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Service Now
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