Agile Project Manager - New York, United States - TEKREQS, Inc.

    TEKREQS, Inc.
    TEKREQS, Inc. New York, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
    Location: New York, NY

    Have the opportunity to join a fast growing cloud-based software product firm located in New York City as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master. You will enjoy a vibrant and diverse organization with exceptional leadership committed to providing everyone with career building opportunities. The environment is fast paced and dynamic with work/life initiatives that allow for individual goals to be realized. This firm offers excellent benefits effective first day of employment

    This firm is seeking a highly skilled, team-oriented individual to be an Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master for a high performance cross-functional team of experts. The successful candidate will be an energizing leader, possess strong inter-personal communication and facilitation skills, be detail-oriented, thorough and results-focused.

    RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Organize and conduct daily Stand Up meetings.

    • Partner with Product Management to achieve maximum project return on investment and meet project objectives.

    • Manage sprint planning and execution which includes the management of project progress and provide status & visibility

    • Participate in release planning and scheduling by providing empirical Scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, and creating velocity forecasts.

    • Identify and manage cross-team dependencies.

    • Ensure high throughput of development teams by identifying potential issues and roadblocks and working on preventing or eliminating them.

    • Work with Product Management, Business Analyst, Architects, and UI designers to plan ahead and ensure product backlog is prioritized, groomed, and has sufficient detail, so that it is ready to be worked on by Scrum teams to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework.

    • Facilitate issue resolution within the team.

    • Work in cross-functional project teams that include Development, Product Management, Business Analysts, UI, and Quality Assurance.

    • Facilitate Scrum teams that include team members in engineering, testing and product owner/product management.

    • Create and maintain release burn downs, velocity projections and project forecasts in order to create project visibility and enable timely project adjustments.

    QUALIFICATIONS:

    • Must have a minimum of 3 years of professional technology experience having worked within software delivery.

    • Requires a minimum of 1-4 years of experience working as an Agile Software Project Manager and/or Program Manager.

    • Must have 1+ years experience working within an Agile or fast paced interative web development environment.

    • Fundamental understanding and experience with Software Development project life cycles (SDLC).

    • Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required. Proven track record of being a strong team player with a results oriented attitude.

    • Self-starter able to work well in new and undefined environments.

    • Outstanding organizational and time-management skills.

    • Experience working with a dev team highly preferred.

    • Experience working in a dot-com startup or a technical web product company is a plus.

    • Proactive mentality.