IT Project Manager/scrum Master - Albany, United States - GrayAcumen Inc.

Description

• Manages timeline and financials along with risks, issues, decisions, and changes.
• Manages risk/issue escalations and drives resolution.
• Manages resources in a crossfunctional matrixed environment. Is responsible for executive level reporting and communication.
• Mentors other PMs and contributes to the project/product management discipline or other process improvements.
• Focuses on the needs of the team and ensures value is provided to the customer.
• Establishes clear boundaries in which the team can work. Assists with removing roadblocks and manages the process and culture to ensure team progress and continuous improvement.
• Mentors the team with Agile knowledge to ensure Scrum and other relevant methodologies are understood and applied.
• Helps the Product Owner enact effective backlog grooming techniques; facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum and sprint retrospectives; produces sprint burndown and other metrics.
• Liaises with architecture and operations when there are dependencies to systems and infrastructure.

• Comfortable with managing strong personalities and external vendor relationships.
• Experienced with technical projects, with an understanding of APIs, development, etc.
• Strong with standard PM functions, such as SOW management, finance tracking, reporting.
• Experience with technology operations process and terminology for methodologies supporting business and technology collaboration, intake documentation, and/or handoffs; experience with project scoping, requirements, and user stories preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects/products using both traditional waterfall and agile/sprint methodologies.

• BS/BA in Computer Science, IS, Business or equivalent required.
• Expert skills in development of user stories, Jira, and Confluence management.
• Proficiency for project management skills, Agile processes, quick learning capability, selfstarter, and good communicator.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new processes, systems, etc.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred

• Bonus opportunities

• 9 years

• 8 hour shift