Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Either in Milpitas, California or Raleigh, North Carolina (Hybrid 2 days a week)

Description:

Your demonstrated ability to consistently achieve this while continuing to improve your knowledge and skills will define success for your role. You will exercise independent judgement within defined policies and procedures to determine appropriate action as well as lead a small team to an outcome while being a role model for your team.
Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress & on-time schedule, within scope and budget, ensure resource availability and allocation.
Manage project scope, project schedule and project costs
Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, proactively prioritize activities within the project, manage customer expectations, tracking dependencies and action items, and organizing the team s effort and effectiveness.
Report and escalate project risks/issues to management as needed
Perform risk management exercises using appropriate tools to minimize project risks & perform risk mitigation analysis and provide workaround solutions
Effectively manage the team of application developers, analysts, testers system changes. Good Stakeholder management
Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
Become a change agent ensuring lean principles and best practices are followed.
Be a thought leader, understand the latest trends and capabilities to implement modern and successful solutions.
Communicate and Collaborate effectively with global customers, external vendors and internal team to drive results.
Contributing to your BU/Practice by
o Documenting your learnings from the current work and engaging in the external tech community by writing blogs, contributing in Github, Stack overflow, meetups / conferences etc.
o Keep updated on the latest technologies with technology trainings and certifications
o Actively participate in organization level activities and events related to learning, formal training, interviewing, special projects as assigned.
REQUIRED
12 years of overall experience. 2 3 years of experience as a project manager / scrum master.
Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams (7-8 members in each scrum team) with a focus on guiding the teams.
Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint reviews, grooming, tasking, estimating, and agile release planning
Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution
Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices
Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, leadership visibility, appropriate prioritization, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
Excellent presentation and communication skills

Good to have BA background
o Experience in managing requirement workshops, user story creations, scenario use case definitions.
o Understanding of software development life cycle, Relational databases, UX design etc.
o Familiarity with Web app and mobile app development process.
o Experience in process flow, data flow diagrams, user acceptance testing, user training documentation.

Thanks,

Saranya

Technical Recruiter | Dizer Corp