What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager 3 (Scrum Master) - local to Michigan area (within 100 miles) position at HPTech Inc.?
Required Skills:
-5 years of experience serving as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.
-Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
-Hands-on experience using Agile lifecycle management tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally, VersionOne, etc.).
Preferred Skills:
-Experience as a project manager
-CSM certificate
-Experience with Medical or Financial Systems
Other Preferred Skills
- Proven experience supporting complex, enterprise-level financial or debt management software solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile methodologies (SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or similar).
- Strong understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), secure application development lifecycle (SADLC), and modern DevOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to guide teams in implementing Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and delivery forecasting.
- Strong ability to remove impediments, negotiate dependencies, and collaborate across cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, product, architecture, compliance, and operations).
- Proven ability to coach Product Owners in backlog refinement, story decomposition, estimation, and value prioritization.
- Experience supporting teams working with integration-heavy, API-driven, or data-centric systems.
- Strong understanding of regulatory, privacy, and security considerations in financial services software (e.g., PCI, SOC, FFIEC, CFPB-related requirements).
- Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead multiple Agile teams or a large, scaled program context.
- Experience working in fast-paced, cloud-first environments (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform).
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), CSM, PSM I/II, ICP-ACC, or equivalent certification.
- Experience working with debt collection/servicing systems, payment processing workflows, or financial case management platforms.
- Understanding of user-centered design, accessibility standards, and customer journey mapping.
- Experience supporting Quality Assurance processes including regression, user acceptance testing (UAT), and post-deployment validation.
- Ability to facilitate technical discussions, backlog elaboration sessions, and dependency alignment across multiple teams.
- Experience contributing to or establishing Centers of Excellence (Agile CoE) or process governance programs.
Key Competencies
- Strong servant leadership mindset with a focus on empowering teams.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to drive transparency, predictability, and continuous delivery.
- Comfortable facilitating executive-level reporting, burn-up metrics, dashboards, and KPI updates.
- Ability to maintain a positive, motivating influence within high-pressure or sensitive delivery timelines.