Role: Project Manager
Location : Tempe , AZ
Type : contract
Duration : 6 + month
Total Experience: 12+ Years
Skills Required: Project Management , Data programs , Professional Certifications , Financial budget/Accounting ,AWS
Certifications [preferred] PMI, PMI-ACP
The Basics:
- Expert at Project Management – PMP, PSM/CSM, CSPO, Lean, Kanban. Strong execution drive and technical aptitude to deliver customer value – Lead cross functional development from design through delivery
- Builds great partnerships and relationships with globally distributed cross-functional partners (e.g. Business, Product, Technology, Design, Architecture, Legal, Compliance, et al.)
- Possesses excellent inter-personal skills with amazing written/verbal communication skills
- Customer centric with innovative problem solving skills
- Extremely organized, Goal oriented, and experienced in Data analytics as well as Financial budget/Accounting (CapEx/OpEx) principles
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree [Technology preferred]
- 5+ years of experience serving as Project Manager/Scrum Master in planning and delivering software solutions, such as online and mobile user experiences, underlying transactional systems, and integrating disparate systems
Competencies
- Leadership
- Customer Focus
- Collaborative: Ability to partner with cross-functional partners to achieve goals at various levels throughout the organization and lead others to do so by example
- Communicative and social: Must be able to communicate (written/verbal) well with all levels of the organization
- Innovative problem solving with strong data crunching and analytical skills
- Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable & effective workplace
- Autonomy/Empowerment: Must be able to guide team(s) to self-organization
- Open/Transparent: Must desire to bring disclosure and transparency to both business and technology and build trust amongst partners
- Conflict resolution: Must be able to facilitate discussion at the team level and suggest alternatives or different approaches
- Continual improvement: Must continually be growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and team members
- Facilitative: Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate value-add principles to product development scrum team(s)
- Assertive: Experience with working teams in adhering to Agile/Scrum/Lean concepts and principles
- Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the job and can influence those around her/him
Roles:
- Leads the software development planning and delivery process
- Provides servant leadership and building multiple high-performing Agile scrum teams
- Bring transparency to Business, Product and Technology organization about development and grow trust
- Leverages tools (e.g. Jira and Confluence) to elicit and define business and technical requirements, track requirements, prioritize features, curate content, sequence deliverables into sprints, and report progress
- Good problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to coach and mentor all roles on a development scrum team