Agile Project Manager

ROLE: Agile IT Project Manager

DEPARTMENT: Projects

TYPE: Full-Time

WORKING HOURS: 9:00 am-5:00 pm

PROJECT MANAGER ROLE OVERVIEW

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing and finalizing projects throughout the software development life cycle. The PM documents deadlines, assigns responsibilities, raises issues and monitors progress throughout the software development process. The company employs the Agile Scrum framework and the project manager generally acts as the Scrum Master coordinating all of the rituals defined in the framework. As a company focused on innovation the candidate will be responsible for trying to customize and optimize the process for the Scrum teams.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Lead projects as a scrum master in new software development
• Try new methods to optimize the Scrum process
• Facilitate all Scrum rituals: Sprint Planning (What & How), Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Monitoring deadlines, deliverables, and outstanding action items from developers, QA, Product Managers and business owners Using Servant leadership methodologies, provide support to the team
• Document agreements, issues, obstacles, solutions and priorities for projects
• Communicate updates to project stakeholders and drive issues to resolution
• Represent the Systems Project Management team at business and management meetings and interact with senior leadership and business stakeholders
• Input and update JIRA and Confluence
• Track and report metrics around velocity
• Build consensus when team is experiencing conflict
• Track work rejected either from QA or UAT
• Defend the scope of the project from scope creep
• Assign or collect story points for each user story to estimate cost to deliver each project
• Provide budget estimations to be used in business cases for new products and features
• Coordinate degree of doneness across the teams
• Analyze impact of bugs and determine when a “hot fix” is necessary
• Understand how the users interact with each of the systems
• Work with Product Management to groom the backlog

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

• Bachelor’s degree related to technology
• 3-4 years’ experience using Agile/Scrum
• Scrum Master certification (CSM) is required
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP) is optional
• Familiarity with Agile and Traditional PM concepts, practices and procedures
• Familiar with JIRA and Confluence
• Ability to analyze problems, present options and facilitate the decision-making process
• Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines
• Strong organizational skills, balancing the ability to work well with people, negotiate and continually manage expectations under time-constrained circumstances
• Ability to manage conflict on teams in a positive way
• Strong attention to detail as it relates to accuracy in documentation and data, monitoring processes and organizing a system of records
• Ability to take responsibility for actions and outcomes and persist despite obstacles
• Demonstrate dependability and show a sense of urgency about getting results
• Demonstrate resourcefulness by both guiding the team to remove impediments and finding the right resources to produce successful project outcomes
• Desire to innovate and improve upon processes

WHO WE ARE

GlobeTax is the leading provider of withholding tax recovery solutions for financial institutions and their clients worldwide. We pride ourselves on cultivating subject matter expertise, pioneering innovative solutions, and maintaining industry leadership to achieve our vision that “No Investor Overpays Withholding Tax.”

WHY GLOBETAX

TRAINING

• All new hires are provided with rigorous training that offers a comprehensive view of the services industry, GlobeTax’s product offerings, and division of departmental responsibility. After onboarding, employees are offered frequent opportunities for training and education to foster continued career growth and development.

COMPANY CULTURE

• In our recent Employee Satisfaction Survey, employees reported “Company Culture” as their favorite part of life at GlobeTax. Past events include a reception atop the World Trade Center, Mets, Yankees, and Rangers games, bowling night, comedy shows, trivia, and more.

• During our “GlobeTax Gives Back” week, employees volunteer during work hours at a charity of their choice. Philanthropic opportunities are also organized on a quarterly basis.

• GlobeTax promotes health and wellness by hosting weekly workout classes, sponsoring intramural sports teams (soccer, kickball, and volleyball), organizing an annual Wellness Week, offering an annual company softball tournament, and more.

BENEFITS AND PERKS

• GlobeTax is proud to offer a comprehensive Benefits Program, including medical, dental, vision, a 401k with company match, commuter savings, paid days off, sick days, corporate gym memberships, and more.

ACCOMODATIONS

The role requires sitting for extended periods of time and the ability to speak and hear. Specific vision abilities include close vision for data entry.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to ensure individuals with disabilities can perform essential functions. GlobeTax is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.