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Position: Agile Project Manager(Hybrid) Location: Raleigh, NC.12 MonthsEmployment type: C2C.NC FAST (Families Accessing Services through Technology)is looking for an experienced Agile Project manager.This role advises the teams as well as leadership on NC FAST 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. This Resource will facilitate prioritization and planning of efforts for one or more products to a high standard. Resource must be coachable and knows how to work with Product Owners/Managers, Scrum/flow Masters, and Stakeholders, works as a good team player based on Agile principle to enable understanding, learning and behaviors that drives customer and business value. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 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, conducting formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders, ensure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and help developing Federally required documents as requested, and status documents.Skill matrix Required:SkillRequired / DesiredRequired ExperienceConsultant ExperienceStrong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs.Required10 Years Strong experience in understanding and implementation of Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum)Required5Years Development of business/functional requirements, RFI’s, RFP’s, Federal level reporting documentation and systems analysis.Required7Years Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint.Required10Years Experience in business planning, program management, project management in multi-platform environments.Required5Years Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills.Required7Years Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the program/project.Required5Years Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks.Required7Years Experience in gaining buy-in and support from stakeholders.Required7Years Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs.Required7Years Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner.Required2Years Hand-on experience in software development and debugging using programming language like Java or .Net/C# etc.Required2Years Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification.Highly desired Knowledge of DevOps practices.Highly desired Hands-on SQL experience in relational database like Oracle, SQL Server etc.Required2 Years