IT Project Management Specialist Advisor

INDIST# Job Description: Dimensions Responsible for one to three products or services Low up to moderate complex product development and services Oversee and participate in business analysis and organizational change management Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and prioritization. Understand and adhere to IT and corporate governance processes. Nature and Scope This position provides agile leadership and oversight for low to moderate-complexity products/efforts/delivery teams, which provide solutions to a narrow range of products/solutions in focused business areas. Focus is on delivering Information Technology features/outcomes to internal groups involving new or improved practices, procedures, techniques, or systems. Implementation is accomplished through small cross-functional teams which are not direct reports and are shared resources. Teams will be comprised of individuals from multiple departments and typically single business units and geographical locations. Influencing skills are leveraged, combined with the ability to execute. May require minimal travel to overcome geographic, technical, and cultural barriers. Incumbent exercises judgment following department policies, practices, procedures, and techniques. The incumbent will lead the agile activities supported with moderate direction and supervision. Customers vary based on services or products Activities will be managed in Azure DevOps or another agile tooling Work is reviewed by product owners and supervisors Work can be conducted in person or remote fashion based on the requirement of the sponsors This position report to a manager and has dotted line reporting to agile centers of excellence Principal Accountabilities Lead the team ceremonies: Scrum sprint planning, grooming, sprint demos, and retrospective Facilitate team conflict resolution by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect Help a team/individual/product owners clarify goals and actions to achieve them Facilitate team to estimate and plan product/solution in a variety of tools with minor supervision Ensure team is incorporating feedback from customers, end-users, and key stakeholders to increase value for our customers continually Shield teams from outside distraction/interference Track and remove impediments with little to no assistance Collaborate with functional SMEs to better define product scope, goals, and deliverables Collect business requirements to enable the team to prioritize features/capabilities within the backlog Work with the Product Owner to document and make visible the product/solution scope, goals, and deliverables Develop estimates, schedules, effort, and cost based on best practices and experience Develop and manage a comprehensive plan for products/solutions. Identify capacity related risks, recommend potential mitigation, and escalate appropriately, and remediate Create an environment of accountability within the delivery team Work closely with functional team members to understand product/solution inter-dependencies. Execute product delivery based on agile methodologies defined by the enterprise Become proficient at using DevOps/Agile tooling and related tools Work with subject matter experts to ensure that teams are consistently delivering the highest value Prepare, present and review provided features and capabilities regularly with product owners and stakeholders Work with internal and external technology suppliers and product owners to ensure an accurate product/solution budget and manage to it Manage scope, communicating risks to scope, timeline, budget, and resolve issues Identify, document, and escalate resource constraints, conflicts, and impediments Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders to meet project deliverables and benefit case Ensure product/solution alignment with enterprise standards and processes Create an appropriate support model that addresses the support need of the product/solution Update technical and job knowledge by learning from more senior-level scrum masters, self-education, and read professional publications Qualifications: 5+ years of IT experience or equivalent or 5+ years of product/project management experience 4+ years of agile/scrum experience BS degree or equivalent Three plus years of experience working in an Agile environment as a Scrum Master Knowledge and demonstrated expertise in applying Agile best practices, Scrum ceremonies, and scaled Agile practices Two years of experience in the software development life cycle (requirements gathering, system design, development, testing, release cycle, support) Experience running the five Scrum ceremonies Two plus years of experience in sprint and program increment planning Experience implementing Agile estimation techniques Two plus years of experience in removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to aid in doing so Two plus years of experience at fostering a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or judgment, where there is an emphasis on problem-solving Self-starter, initiative, leadership, excellent judgment, excellent problem solving, excellent communication, and human relations skills Working knowledge of program management concepts and approaches The ability to facilitate cross-functional teams across the IT organization and related business groups Proficient in Office 365 applications (MS Project, Outlook, Teams, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Skype, etc.) Basic experience using Azure DevOps or similar applications Preferred: Five plus years of progressively responsible job-related experience Experience working with Product Owners Experience creating product backlogs Certified Scrum Master (CSM) One year experience working on teams developing large, complex product solutions Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a highly collaborative fashion Deep knowledge of IT infrastructure (Network, Database, Server) technologies and concepts Previous experience leading Information Technology programs and projects Ability to immerse oneself in an industrial software market and quickly add value to a project The multi-disciplined individual with familiarity in a variety of concepts, practices, and procedures related to modern web development, content management systems, mobile application development, user experience, and responsive design Strength in guiding teams towards self-organization Three plus years experience in agile software development methodologies This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result.