Project Manager/Scrum Master

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Company: NTT DATA Services
Location: Carlsbad, CA

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  • Senior PM/Scrum Master contract
  • 11 months (expected to run through 11/30/2020)
  • Rate $75/hr W2 only (Citizen/Green Card only)
  • Life Sciences experience would be a plus
  • HP PPM experience is required
  • Must sit in Carsbad CA

NTT DATA’s Client is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Scrum Master with strong Agile Project Management experience. This experienced resource will be expected to hit the ground running and have the following experience and knowledge:

  • Extensive Scrum-Agile implementation experience as well as the ability to work in a hybrid methodology environment.
  • Experience in a Life Sciences environment & Digital Marketing scenarios a plus
  • Experience in BI a plus.
  • PM Experience.
  • Strong Agile Project Management experience to facilitate Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily scrum calls, removing impediments to the team’s progress to its sprint commitments.
  • Solid organization, detail-oriented and capable of self-managing in a matrix role while multi-tasking multiple work streams/projects.
  • Very good documentation skills (roles and responsibilities, stakeholder analysis, project plans, Epics/Stories and schedules, status reporting).
  • Confident to handle tough stakeholders while building trust.

Job Level Specific Duties

  • Provide weekly status reports to key stakeholders, quarterly meetings, and presentation of monthly roadmap and highlights to VP of Digital Marketing.
  • Manage resource capacity plan, budget, and drive delivery of the projects.
  • PM Tool use and communication encompassing HP PPM, Jira, Confluence, and MS Team’s.
  • Maintain client relationships with product managers, sponsors as well as project leads from client organizations
  • Manage backlog grooming sessions, release strategy, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and issues log to resolution.
  • Leading daily scrum calls and weekly status report, identification of story tasks, external dependencies, and updates to issues and risks.
  • Develop, manage, and control the project plan/schedule and HP PPM Updates.
  • Works with Business and Technical resource managers to ensure the needed staff are available and assigned to the project.
  • New projects conduct thorough project kick-offs when needed to confirm project scope, roles and responsibilities (RACI).
  • Ensure data integration and modeling documentation is created or updated in a timely manner for business analyst reference.Skills
  • Experience with project budgets
  • Experienced with capacity management tools
  • Has experience creating dashboards and communications for the executive level
  • Advanced understanding software development projects
  • Excellent ability to drive projects to successful completion
  • Demonstrates advanced proficiency in the specific tools that are available and required as part of the company’s project management information system
  • Ability to identify, develop and quantify any required corrective action plans
  • Advanced ability to ensure that effective project controls are in place to monitor project or program performance
  • Advanced capability at providing effective performance reporting for the customer and company in order to monitor the progress of the project
  • Advanced facilitation and communication skills

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $75.00 /hour

Contract Length:

  • 1 year