Agile Project Manager - Hybrid

Title: Agile Project Manager - Hybrid
Location: Raleigh, NC, United States
Length: Long term
Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

Interview Type: Skype *** Very long term project initial PO for 1 year, expect to go for 4+ years *** Hybrid

Complete Description:

This Resource will facilitate prioritization and planning of efforts for one or more products to a high standard. Resource must be coachable and knows how to work with Product Owners/Managers, Scrum/flow Masters, and Stakeholders, works as a good team player based on Agile principle to enable understanding, learning and behaviors that drives customer and business value.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: provide scrum/flow master support to assigned team(s), understand technical need of team efforts, authoring all project management artifacts following the practices and guidelines from the PMIs PMBOK or Scaled Agile, help develop project budget/resource/ timeline planning, monitoring expenditures, ensuring that project plans and schedules are established and maintained, conducting formal presentations, coordinating with all project stakeholders, ensure that appropriate project controls are instituted, and help developing Federally required documents as requested, and status documents.

Required Skills:

Strong organization and analytical thinking skills with experience preparing Project plan for complex business needs. 10 Years
Strong experience in understanding and implementation of Agile values, principles, and practices (i.e., Kanban, Scrum) 5 Years
Development of business/functional requirements, RFIs, RFPs, Federal level reporting documentation and systems analysis. 7 Years
Strong hands on experience with tools like MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SharePoint. 10 Years
Experience in business planning, program management, project management in multi platform environments. 5 Years
Strong experience using risk and business impact analysis and reporting skills. 7 Years
Experience managing, maintaining, and analyzing data to derive meaningful and actionable insights about the program/project. 5 Years
Experience working with stakeholders for backlog item prioritization, grooming, and understanding of epic/stories/tasks. 7 Years
Experience in gaining buy in and support from stakeholders. 7 Years
Experience with work breakdown and estimation, sprint planning, monitoring progress and removing impediments to deliver solutions for business needs. 7 Years
Experience with JIRA to create/enhance dashboards, monitor progress of sprint/work flow, and providing statuses in timely manner. 2 Years
Hand on experience in software development and debugging using programming language like Java or .Net/C# etc. 2 Years
Hands on SQL experience in relational database like Oracle, SQL Server etc. 2 Years

Highly Desired:

Certified Scrum Master or Kanban certification.
Knowledge of DevOps practices.