Senior Project Manager

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Agile methodologies, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, IT, Project management, Scrum Agile Methodology

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to play the role of Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach for Product development teams working on Health IT Products, with opportunities to switch teams and collaborate as our fast-paced business grows and evolves. We need our Project Managers to be agile, versatile, develop people, mature processes with servant leadership and problem-solving qualities.

Required Skills:

• Agile Project Management for high-end Product Development.
• Agile Estimating, Planning, and Forecasting.
• Servant leadership.
• Coaching Agile Practices and Scrum Values to cultivate the right culture.
• Facilitate interactions (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective).
• Inter-team and intra-team conflict resolution.
• Removing impediments and roadblocks.
• Creating communication channels (Organization, Product Owner, Developers, Stakeholder).
• Processes and Policies Implementation.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a servant leader to the team(s), establishing and maintaining an environment where the team(s) can be effective, fostering a relationship between the team and the Product Owner as well as other dependent teams, and protecting the team from outside interruptions.
• To encourage open communication and transparency while focusing on predictability, quality delivery, continuous improvement of the team, and overall program execution.
• Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
• Responsible for managing the Scrum teams developing products using Agile methodology.
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitated meetings, scheduled meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of the adaptation process.
• Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings.
• Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
• Helps Product Owner to maintain the product backlogs in good shape and ready for the next sprints.
• Should be a problem solver, and avid learner with the behavioral attribute of respect, integrity, innovation, and teamwork.
• Resolve conflict using Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect.
• Needs to be an expert in estimation and planning. Should know how to create useful, reliable, and practical plan(s) for software development project(s).
• Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practice(s) and work product(s).
• Maintain Agile chart(s), ratio(s), and metric(s) that provide organization visibility and insight about the team morale, quality, and productivity showing continuous improvement.
• Utilizes team feedback and metric(s) to identify opportunities and improvement area(s) for the team(s).
• To coach individuals and interactions over processes, best practices, and tools and about Agile Scrum to deliver successful deliverables.
• Help team or individual to clarify goal(s) and actions to achieve them.
• Ability to shield team(s) from outside distractions and interferences.
• Ability to ensure the correct use of the Scrum process.
• Developing the ability to help onboard or acts as a mentor to Scrum Masters with less experience.

• Proactively identify risk(s) /impediment(s) and facilitate quick resolution(s) using company networks such as PMO, IT, CS, HR, Enterprise Management, and other departments, for impediment removal.
• Track the preparation work required in readiness for future sprints in the form of backlog refinement and show-stopper impediments removal.
• Monitor team velocity to be effectively used for product backlog planning.
• Holds experience in educating and promotion of Agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, Test-driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and refactoring preferred.
• Ability to evaluate and inspect the performance of the team(s) and individual quarterly with transparency using proven key performance indicators.
• Become a career coach for the team members to understand and identify their natural talent and forte; groom their competencies, career paths, and personalities to reach their fullest potential.
• Build a solid understanding of the US HealthCare IT domain – Provide feedback to the Business Analysis team on the documentation and UXI.
• Close collaboration with Client Services to watch Support tickets SLAs and opportunities for improvements.

Qualifications:

• BS, MS degree in CS, SE, AI, or Data Science.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in an Agile environment.
• Proven experience identifying a Scrum team’s gaps in the Scrum framework and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on Scrum values, Agile manifesto values, and principle.
• Experienced in coaching new Agile teams, cross-functional team members (Dev, QA, BA, Architecture), Product Owners, and Product Managers to achieve best practices.
• Strong coaching and mentorship experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive base salary and yearly bonus.
• Health benefits (Outpatient, Inpatient, Maternity).
• Provident Fund company match up to 8% of the base salary.
• Company-sponsored trainings, workshops, education, and development programs.
• Collaborative yet fun-loving atmosphere: space that fosters employee wellbeing.
• Commuter support, supportive workspaces, gym facility, and daycare.