What you'll do:
- Manage business and technical deliverables to the project budget and timeline throughout the various project phases
- Develop and document project plans, budgets and schedules
- Identify and document the roles, tasks, and responsibilities of the project team
- Document release/deployment plans, present to leadership
- Schedule and manage releases, create deployment tickets
- Schedule, coordinate and lead release and certification calls
- Identify gaps/risks early and establish mitigation plans
- Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverables are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases
- Manage day-to-day scrum activities and influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices, Schedule and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies as needed
- Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget
- Work with leads and product owner to provide development sizings & cost analysis estimates
- Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks
- Utilize scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally
- Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems
- Assist development and operations teams in resolving needs and roadblocks identified by team members
What you have:
- Three or more years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments
- Scrum Master and Release Manager experience
- Two or more years of technology experience, previous development or QA experience
- Previous technical experience with the Microsoft technology stack (C#, SQL Server) or with Java
- Ability to understand technical issues and facilitate resolution
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Expert knowledge of MS Project, Excel, and MS Word along with general familiarity with Outlook, Visio and other MS Office applications
- Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision- making and conflict resolution skills with a solid ability to ability to identify stakeholders, assess their needs and manage their expectations through effective communication
- Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
- Experience working with an Agile methodology on large scale, technically complex projects for a large enterprise
- Results Driven (Prioritizing, Taking Initiative, Taking Ownership)
- Team Leadership (Coaching Others, Dealing with Stress, Demonstrating Teamwork, Influencing Others, Interacting with Others, Maintaining Composure, Motivating Others, Providing Direction and Leadership)
- Certified Scrum Master and PMP Certification (plus)
- Financial Industry experience (plus)
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