Actively build positive, collaborative relationships with the client to understand the client's business priorities and bring assets and expertise aligned with the priorities.
Provides leadership to the project teams. Promote empowerment of the teams, ensuring each team member is fully engaged, making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-level quality.
Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint demos, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog grooming meetings.
Act as agile coach adapting teams to agile/scrum methodology using techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver large-scale initiatives, features, and stories in an iterative fashion
Monitor and manage team goals and performance and ensure the team understands how they align and relate to broader business goals and strategies.
Deep-dive existing and potential problem areas, develop and communicate corrective action and mitigation plans, and drive follow-through to a successful resolution. Be hands-on when needed to help your team solve problems and get through crunch periods.
Establish and manage product roadmap. Manage changes to the projects scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
Responsible for overall contract and project cost management. Ensure projects remain in scope and within budget through active project budget tracking and burndown tracking. Work closely with corporate operations and the customer to ensure total expenditures are tracked and costs are managed and communicated through proper change management.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field
5-8 years of Project or Program Management and related experience in the federal government
Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
Ability to clarify the process, brainstorm solutions, and assist in conflict resolution
Experience using agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement
Experience adapting newly formed teams to scrum and leading their journey through the stages of storming, forming, and norming.
Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other scrum techniques
A love to learn and improve as a leader, always looking to bring something new and helpful to the team. Embodies the agile principles and leads by example
Strong knowledge of Scrum theory and agile practices
PMP certification/PRINCE2 certification (or other certifications acknowledged by organizations such as PMI or APM)

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Disability and Life Insurance
Parental Leave
401K
Paid Time Off

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

agile methodologyscrumproject managementperformance metricsbudget trackingburndown trackingproblem resolutionproduct roadmap managementsprint planningbacklog grooming

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationadaptabilityconflict resolutioncommunicationempowermentengagementinnovationcontinuous improvementteam building

Certifications

PMPPRINCE2