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Sameera Sam

bsameera@3ipeople.com


Job ID :J21492

Location : Atlanta, GA

Duration :6 months.

Interview Type :Video

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Job Type :Contract

Background Checks :County Criminal History, Drug Test, Education Verification, Motor Vehicle Report

No Of Openings :1

No Of Hours per week :N/A

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IT Project Manager II

$89 - $89

Hourly

< 3 Years

Experience

Atlanta, GA

Location

Job Description

We have a position for a IT Project Manager II with one of our clients in Atlanta, GA for an initial contract duration of 6 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

Agile Project Manager

Our client is looking for an experienced lead Lean/Agile practitioner to join our Integrated Business Technology team in Atlanta, GA.  The Agile PM’s primary purpose is to lead scaled agile teams to success and navigate the complexity of delivering value consistently in large and complex environments.  The Agile PM resolves and escalates impediments, manages risk, assures value delivery, and drives program-level continuous improvement.  This person has the responsibility of facilitating the formation, learning, and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean/Agile mindset, adopting, and continuously improving practices in their context, and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream. They play a critical link between multiple scrum teams; facilitating communications, opening the flow of information, and sharing important progress updates to ensure all teams involved in that Product area are focused on successful delivery. The Agile PM is accountable for the overall coordination, execution, and delivery of value through the program while ensuring alignment with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

This role will focus on working inside the Analytics team addressing Intelligent Automation and AI.

Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, this is a temporary work-from-home role but will ultimately work at the Atlanta headquarters.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Oversees small to medium-size groups of teams with complex scope and inter-dependencies.
  • Facilitates the coordinated preparation of release planning for their product area, including cross-team coordination, delivery synchronization, and systems-level inspection & adapt, as well as communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery.
  • Manage changes to the monthly plan and the impacts of those changes.
  • Responsible for backlog management as well as agile data integrity for accurate reporting.  This includes the collection of metrics and KPIs.  Recommend new metrics for the team's context and foster continuous improvement conversations using metrics.
  • Coordinate major feature releases and ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams, or portfolio groups are involved in value delivery.
  • Resolve/report issues and manage dependencies and risks across teams.
  • Drive continuous improvement through the facilitation of retrospectives quarterly, or more often as needed, to improve backlog management, Product team reviews, sprint reviews, or Portfolio coordination and higher-level function.
  • Actively participate in helping the organization to maintain alignment, learn new techniques, and improve technical and quality practices.  Work with Agile PM community to determine ways to help the company improve cross Portfolio coordination and collaboration.
  • Facilitate contextual adoption of the Scrum Framework, including daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews & retrospectives, and other related team and intra-team meetings.
  • Facilitate contextual adoption of Lean Thinking, including visualization and continuous optimization of delivery flow using the Kanban Method.
  • Foster team collaboration and proactive, open communication.
  • Encourage an experimental and fail-fast & learn mindset.
  • Sustain and promote usage of information radiators for the teams and broader organization.
  • Guide Feature and Story-level refinement to the Definition of "Ready" in preparation for the next upcoming sprints
  • Work with the team and Product representative to maintain a healthy backlog and roll short and mid-term planning for upcoming releases
  • Forms and guides teams to high performance by helping the team navigate interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. Create and sustain an environment of psychological safety and trust among team members, and between the team and the larger organization
  • Encourages brainstorming, creative thinking, open minds, equal voice, and perspective sharing. Encourages the team to be confident and courageous, thinking outside the box.
  • Coaches the team on Lean, Agile, and Scrum principles with a goal of continuous improvement. Able to subtly observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and growth opportunities of individual team members and /himself, and invite team members into coaching conversations to inspire learning and growth.
  • Create a fun, open, and learning environment, experimenting with various methods to improve and grow
  • Promote teamwork to enable a Lean flow of value and achieve sprint goals
  • Lead the teams towards increasing levels of growth in the Lean/Agile context.
  • Participate in scaling Lean/Agile adoption throughout adjacent areas of the organization.

Preferred Skills

AMP, AMP, AMP, AMP

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