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    Senior Project Manager - New York, United States - City of New York

    City of New York
    City of New York New York, United States

    1 month ago

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    Description

    The Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) is a public pension fund that provides New York City educators with retirement, disability, and death benefits.

    TRS is currently the City's second-largest pension system and it is one of the largest pension plan sponsors in the United States, with more than $ billion in assets and over , members, retirees, and beneficiaries.


    Job Description

    The Senior Project Manager (SPM) oversees projects, ensuring code quality, meeting acceptance criteria, unit testing, and managing processes. They will plan, lead, organize, and motivate teams to deliver high-quality, enterprise-level agile programs. The SPM role oversees Agile teams in a fast-paced enterprise environment, ensuring compliance with development processes and standards.

    Additionally, they will develop a project oversight approach, blending traditional project management principles with Agile development to achieve goals within constraints and coach team members to optimize efficiency and product quality.

    Working closely with the Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts and Release Managers, the SPM will facilitate and guide the teams through agile practices and ceremonies, including backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint demos, and retrospectives with a focus on producing high-quality, bug-free code that meets the needs of the business and member community.

    The TPM will keep the Program Manager apprised on a weekly basis of the activities, roadblocks, and progress of each team.

    One of the main goals of the TPM is to provide a "no surprises" environment for the Program Manager, the user community, and executive management.


    Responsibilities


    • Responsible for regular and timely delivery of highest quality code; prepare and distribute progress reports to Program Manager; manage development risks and issues; work with scrum masters to correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects
    • Assist/Work with team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing/resolving roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members.
    • Support and coach team members in managing expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance.
    Facilitate and guide the teams through agile practices and ceremonies, including grooming sessions, planning, daily stand up meetings, demos, reviews, and retrospectives

    • Oversee the development projects and ensure the quality of all signoffs and milestones.
    Also oversee the development of Acceptance Criteria, the grooming of User Stories, and development of unit test plans. The focus in on quality, completeness, and accuracy, not just "checking the boxes" that something has been completed.

    • Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep teams running on pace with planned cadences.
    • Support Process Owner with intra team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.
    Minimum Qualifications

    1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university including or supplemented by 12 credits in mathematics, statistics, accounting, and/or actuarial science and four years of satisfactory full-time experience implementing the provisions of a retirement plan involving the use of mathematical, statistical, actuarial or accounting computations, 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or supervising professionals implementing the provisions of a retirement plan involving the use of mathematical, statistical, actuarial or accounting computations; or

    2. An associate degree or 60 credits from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 12 credits in mathematics, statistics, accounting and/or actuarial science and six years of satisfactory full-time experience as indicated in "1"; or

    3. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

    However, all candidates must have 60 credits from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 12 credits in mathematics, statistics, accounting and/or actuarial science and the 18 months of experience in a supervisory, administrative, managerial or executive capacity as described in "1" above.

    Preferred Skills

    • A proven track record of successfully implementing high quality software development projects using Agile methodologies including 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager managing enterprise level, complex projects with multi function teams.
    -2+ years as a Scrum Master in software development projects, managing teams in a Scrum, SAFe, or similar methodology, with the ability to advise on industry best practices. Also 2+ years in a hands-on software application development or testing role such as Microsoft Project, Visio, SharePoint, and all Office Tools and Microsoft Team Foundation Server.-Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of Agile, SAFe, Kanban, and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.-Experience overseeing multi-function project scrum teams including Developers, Testers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts, and QA Personnel.-Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building-Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands-Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment is self-motivated and organized with the ability to work independently.-Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics. Also user story grooming, developing acceptance criteria, and test cases.-Experience managing/implementing project time tracking systems with project and task estimation techniques.-PMP certification-Certified SAFe Agilist-Certified Scrum Master
    55a Program
    This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program.

    Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

    Public Service Loan Forgiveness

    As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs.

    For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at class="jobad-residencyRequirement"> Residency RequirementNew York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment.

    However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County.

    To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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