IT Project Manager – Scrum Master
American College of Cardiology
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington • District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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About the role
- Manage RFP/SOW process when onboarding vendors
- Manage and lead enterprise projects in support of your team and business colleagues.
- Contribute to a scrum backlog and execute projects in a transparent and open communication approach.
- Coach the team in using industry-standard Agile methodology and scrum practices and utilize best practices to help the team achieve customer satisfaction.
- Facilitate and/or assist the IT Product Owner with the various scrum meetings e.g., daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospective.
- Assist the team to create/organize user stories and/or assist in testing to help them achieve the sprint goals.
- Lead a project team to a successful, quality deliverable, by working collaboratively to identify the right solution based on customer needs.
- Serve on multiple teams based on customer priorities and project needs, handling multiple responsibilities and roles simultaneously.
- Be responsible for managing project budgets and continually evaluate project estimates.
- Manage vendor relationships and expectations when projects require third party integration.
- Assist in the determination of sprint expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel but always be willing to jump-in to clear impediments and roadblocks impacting your team.
- Proactively communicate and manage expectations and deliverables.
- Provide IT consultation and make project recommendations and decisions, by having discussions with stakeholders and scrum team members.
- Collaborate across IT, to ensure the success of your projects and those of your colleagues.
- Perform identified project management activities per the standards of the IT Project Management Office.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Proven Project Management, business requirements/process experience in both Agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise software tools including JIRA, MS Project, Visio, SQL, and Microsoft O365.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment and is also independent, and self-directed towards a proactive solution approach.
- Exceptional customer focus, time management, verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with software development processes, system interactions, with an ability to navigate complex systems.
- Proven experience coordinating or leading project initiatives
- Experience leading delivery of large‑scale data collection systems, data warehousing, ETL processes, and business intelligence solutions.
- A willingness, desire, and aptitude to learn new technologies.
- A willingness to continually improve processes and share lessons learned.
- Flexibility to adjust with shifting priorities and possess strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Working knowledge/experience of the scrum framework, scrum values, and scrum process.
- Possess excellent conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.
- Scrum master certification, e.g. Scrum Alliance, PMI, or Scrum.org (preferred)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (preferred)
- Experience with Microsoft Project Online (MSPOL) (preferred)
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI (preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or business administration (preferred)
- Experience with projects using .NET, SQL and MongoDB (preferred)
- Some exposure or experience with Web Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Sitefinity and Sitecore (preferred)
- Experience with Salesforce a plus (preferred)
Benefits
- insurance (medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability, and supplemental options)
- generous paid time off (pre-loaded vacation and sick, 12 holidays and an organizational shut-down during the last week of the year, parental leave, 2 community service days, and half-day summer Fridays)
- tuition assistance
- a very competitive 10% retirement contribution after a year of service
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Project ManagementAgile methodologyWaterfall methodologyData warehousingETL processesBusiness intelligence solutions.NETSQLMongoDBWeb Content Management Systems
Soft Skills
Customer focusTime managementVerbal communicationWritten communicationAnalytical skillsProblem-solvingConflict resolutionStakeholder managementNegotiation skillsCollaboration
Certifications
Scrum master certificationProject Management Professional (PMP)