Essential Functions:
- Collaborate and provide coaching to Product Owner to ensure success:
- Development of backlog including prioritization, sequencing, definition of ready, definition of done
- Grow, groom, and refine a backlog through evolving to user stories and detailed success criteria
- Effective, consistent communication regarding product vision, value, goals, and backlog items to the team and stakeholders
- Effective stakeholder Management; impact assessment, engagement and alignment
- Facilitate Retrospectives and Health Checks; follow up on actions for improvement fostering continuous improvement of Teams
- Coach and mentor Teams that are maturing in an Agile / Kanban delivery model to ensure successful delivery:
- Support Team estimating, planning, and assignment of tasks
- Iterative and incremental development, and handle emerging and evolving requirements
- Building cross-functional team and use Agile engineering practices
- Encourage communicate openly, transparently, and respectfully with others to create working agreements
- Adopt sprints starting from value, vision, and goals and ending with a demo and working software
- Respect time boxes, including the sprint itself, planning, the daily stand-up, demo, and retrospective
- Servant Leader of the team; work with functional leaders to remove impediments for the team
- Ensure adherence to Allianz IT Solution Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) process
- Accountable for ensuring required processes and documentation is completed
- Responsible for traditional Project Management tasks; including status reporting, meeting minutes, risks, issues, action items, and other communications
- Partner with Product Owner / Business leaders to effectively manager Team Financials
Knowledge, Skill & Competency Requirements:
- Experience leading teams using Agile, Kanban, Waterfall as Allianz has a mix
- Experience in technical solution delivery with demonstrated knowledge of SDLC (software development life cycle)
- Strong people leadership with excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels within the organization
- Experienced in formal techniques of risk / issue management
- Experience with Microsoft Project and financial management is required
- Excellent organizational skills
- Experience in Change Management
- Experience leading Quality Assurance activities to include System Integration Testing, UAT support and Test Automation
Education & Experience:
- 6-7 years of experience managing and delivering successful IT projects
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with Microsoft Project and financial management is required
- Project Management / Agile Certification is a plus
- Financial and Insurance Product Industry Experience is a plus