IT Project Manager / Scrum Master

Company: MathWorks
Location: Natick, MA 01760

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Do you want to help ensuring successful and expedient delivery of features, tools, systems and/or IT Infrastructure? On this role you will support multiple IT scrum teams and help them improve their agile maturity with the purpose of delivering projects, features, and minimum viable products in a predictable and efficient way.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitates daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and demos.
  • Plans projects and releases.
  • Tracks and communicates team velocity, sprint/release progress, and projects status.
  • Coaches teams to achieve higher levels of agile maturity.
  • Assists as needed with backlog maintenance.
  • Communicates status of projects and releases.
  • Identifies and removes impediments.
  • Facilitates discussion and conflict resolution.

Minimum Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or a master’s degree and 5 years of professional work experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

  • 5+ years project management experience, including 2+ years of Scrum Master experience in an IT organization.
  • Ability to understand technical issues.
  • Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
  • Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
  • Ability to coach teams to reach their highest potential.
  • Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
  • Collaborative in driving decisions.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.
  • Preferred: Scrum master (CSM, PSM) or PMI-ACP certification.
  • Preferred: Experience with Jira.