Senior Project Manager
Primary Responsibilities
- Ensure that delivery frameworks and best practices are understood and enacted by the team
- Ensure Agile Principles delivery values and practices are followed conduct training if required
- Responsible for process improvements and conducting ceremonial meetings
- Coach team members to adhere to delivery principles and best practices
- Help the team understand how to work effectively within the organization.
- Protect the team from external interfaces and interruptions.
- Ensure the team is fully functional and productive
- Assist product owners with product backlogs and ensure the team maintains a healthy backlog.
- Be a servant leader and change agent
- Conduct/participate in leadership meetings PI Planning, Product Management in current and emerging delivery SCRUM and Agile trends tools and techniques
- Act as a Delivery Lead for one or more Agile teams.
- Establish team-level cadence and drive team level events in alignment with program level cadences
- Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage the adoption of good agile practices
- Provide agile practice leadership and education to the organization enabling scrum teams and product owners to ensure successful delivery of continuous business value
Required Skills
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- 10 years of overall experience in software engineering, preferably in healthcare
- 5 years of hands on experience in managing delivery teams.
- In depth knowledge of agile tools such as Rally, JIRA, preferably with Rally experience.
- In-depth experience with Kanban, Scrum, and Scaled Agile frameworks.
- Knowledge of the Software/System Development Life Cycle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent presentation and relationship skills
- Project Management support skills for Business Partner projects
- Ability to lead projects by collaborating with enterprise and/or external teams
- Thought leadership skills to engage with the enterprise through speaking, learning forums blogging etc
- Ability to work with less structured, more complex issues and serve as a resource to others
- Change agent skills to foster a learn by doing environment.
- Ability to help teams develop and implement practices and metrics for continuous improvement
- Skills to foster a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback and metrics
- Analytical and investigative skills to provide explanations and interpretations within the area of expertise