Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Overview

This role is responsible for leading ‘Cloud-readiness’ technical projects impacting large volumes of enterprise datasets and ensure delivery of secure, cloud-based data platforms for advanced reporting and analytics.

Key Accountabilities

• Gather detailed business requirements, scope work, clearly identify solution criteria and resources needed to deliver them along with establishing realistic expectations and timelines
• Successfully deliver desired outcomes of assigned project(s)/product teams. Projects will often be complex, ambiguous, and broad reaching.
• Manage team progress, timelines, budget, and ensure highest-value deliverables are being appropriately prioritized.
• Manage multiple projects or workstreams, own schedules, outline key milestones, traffic deliverables, identify risks and solutions, and deliver specific project artifacts.
• Lead the identification, management, and mitigation of highest risks, especially those related to business risk or potential business disruption.
• Effectively communicate project status, risks and issues, and escalate for resolution when appropriate. Tailor the message appropriately to various levels of project leadership.
• Build and maintain trusted, collaborative working relationships with project team members (including global & remote employees), leadership, stakeholders, and sponsors.
• Motivate and energize the team to deliver results.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in project management, including 3 years minimum in coaching and leadership of Agile product teams
• Ability to motivate cross-functional teams, quickly and efficiently handle architecture pivots and evaluate tradeoffs as conditions shift
• Experience managing multi-year programs that change in character, size and intensity as they evolve from being development front-loaded and transitioning toward operations
• Understanding of IT design aspects and ability to engage Engineers in technical discussions to grasp complex issues, appreciate tradeoffs, challenge and validate assumptions, and drive decisions based on technical details
• Ability to see the Big picture and zoom into the details, decomposing complex deliverables in order to drive iterative delivery
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of project management methodologies, processes, workflows, and terminology
• Broad working knowledge and experience in applying Agile mindset, methods, tools (Scrum, Kanban, etc)
• Demonstrated drive to successfully deliver high impact, high value project/product outcomes within project constraints and guidelines. Proven ability and experience in successfully managing multiple projects and responsibilities simultaneously.
• Consumer First (client focused) mindset: proven ability and experience in building and maintaining trusted and credible client relationships
• Ability to adapt style and approach to unique needs of clients and team members
• Proven experience with early risk identification and mitigation, particularly those with strong business impact or potential for disruption. Able to navigate ambiguous situations, identify and solve for blockers and bottlenecks, make trade-offs to balance needs, and know when to escalate to keep the project moving forward.
• Ability to discern and ask insightful or difficult questions and maintain a multi-perspective approach while driving to appropriate and timely decisions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to synthesize complex issues and concepts and articulate recommendations clearly and concisely
• Proven ability and experience in influencing at all levels of the team (team members, peers, project leads, directors, stakeholders, and executive sponsors)
• Ability to self-manage multiple, competing priorities and deliverables simultaneously. History of teamwork and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.
• Meticulous attention to detail, coupled with a proven ability to see the “big picture”. Strong organizational skills and budget management skills
• Knowledge and proficiency with MS Office and Project Management tools
• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Public Cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure) and Big Data platforms (Cloudera)
• Familiarity with DevOps tooling, processes and techniques
• Understanding of Data Governance and Quality practices and techniques with demonstrated experience stewarding organizations through their adoption
• Business and technical acumen
• Experience with project management tools and software (Azure DevOp/VSTS, MS Teams, Slack, Jira, Smartsheets, Sharepoint)
• PMP Certification