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Job Description#indistJob Summary:Our Client's Project Management practice group is currently seeking an IT Project Manager/Scrum Master who has strong experience in Finance/Supply chain process to support one of our global Healthcare devices/Life Science clients, based out of Pittsburg, PAThis Scrum Master can coach/mentor, build and lead a strong Scrum team that follows the Agile manifesto/principles for faster delivery, innovative, business-centric for the successful delivery of LIMS systems for continuous delivery. The PM/Scrum Master will be adept at building and maintaining relationships; is highly analytical, customer-obsessed, adaptable, and enjoys bringing structure and discipline to ambiguous spaces to realize measurable value for the business.You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, and balance short & long-term business needs against constraints.Responsibilities and Duties:
- Partner with cross-functional teams work as PM/Scrum Master to support the Data Science/Finance product teams
- Leverage lean thinking in building processes and metrics, growing agile practices across the organization to support end-to-end product delivery.
- Communicate product risks, progress, launches and retrospective across all stakeholder teams - consistently and transparently.
- Strive constantly to improve and establish a high bar in product/project execution using objective metrics.
- Establish business priorities, identifying and communicating product progress, risks and mitigation plans, launches and retrospectives in collaboration with stakeholders - consistently and transparently.
- Develop and maintain product goals, delivery plans (milestones, deliverables and schedules), success criteria/KPIs and performance against them.
- Plan out sprint resourcing and manage/groom your team's development backlog.
- Be detail-oriented and proactive in identifying and closing gaps in the product development lifecycle.
- Present product updates to senior-level stakeholders, welcoming feedback and implementing/driving changes quickly.
- Lead team to resolve all program/project issues and impediments on a timely manner, effectively communicate, manage expectations and resolve conflicts working closely with team and leadership.
- Build and execute operational and technical project plans, facilitate all project gate reviews, utilize PPM tool and effectively escalate issues to meet the project milestones/goals.
- Align to business and IT priorities by effectively leveraging Agile/ SCRUM SAFe methodologies, while coaching and mentoring team members.
- Manage multiple product Scrum teams (internal, external, & for multiple divisions) in parallel, with regular standups, promoting team collaboration, innovation and quality outcomes.
- Actively manage backlog aligning to business priorities, identify risks and impediments, prioritize conflicting needs, handle matters expeditiously and proactively, follow-through on tasks to successful completion with minimal guidance, often with deadline pressures.
- Provide regular status update to the Leadership and Management team with constant drive to make improvements to the outcomes.
- Demonstrate high adaptability and flexibility to take responsibility to support new projects that has priority and as communicated.
- Minimum 5 years of experience as IT project manager with minimum 3 years' experience as Agile Scrum Master preferably for Technology stack DevOps/Jenkins/GitHub- knowing LIMS, Akamai is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, Information Technology or 10 years' experience in Information Technology projects.
- Certified in Agile/SAFe (CSM) methodology
- Experience as Application Project Manager/Scrum Master leading multiple Scrum teams supporting Data Analytics projects
- Experience in Business Intelligence, Data Science and Data Engineering working with different business and product teams,
- Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies, facilitating the ceremonies like backlog grooming, epic /User story, daily standups, estimation and velocity, resolving impediments, sprint retrospection, coaching team members and usage of JIRA, Confluence and metrics reporting.
- Strong communicator with effective presentation skills delivering formal presentations & facilitate Demo to various levels of management articulating project/Sprint status, risk mitigations, benefits & financial realizations.
- Familiarity with the DevOps implementation focusing on the Continuous Integration and deployment leveraging automation building deployment pipelines with focus on quality and speed to market.
- Self-motivated and independent critical thinker who can visualize and guide team during conflicting situations to stay focused on business goals & priorities
- Has strong experience in Agile SAFe methodologies, Kanban, Scrum of Scrums, lean budget, managing release train, process improvements, provide training on Agile tools & dashboard.
- Effective conflict & impediments management in a fast-paced environment, take higher responsibilities working with cross functional team who are working on multiple priorities
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with ability to influence stakeholders and team members with variety of personal styles to focus on right priorities under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills is a must.