
Senior IT Project Manager
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Completes project(s) of various size that are of moderate to high complexity to scope, schedule, financial impact and deliverables agreed to by the project stakeholders and leadership.
- Evaluates project status and identifies any issues or risks. Collaborates with stakeholders, business analysts, etc. to track project scope, budget, deliverables, timeline and detailed work plan, etc.
- Documents and maintains records of project plan changes/updates. Monitors project resources and day-to-day planning of operational aspects of the project to ensure that deliverable timelines are met.
- Provides status updates and related reporting to ensure that projects are staffed with the appropriate Information Technology (IT) staff, stakeholders and vendor resources.
- Serves as a subject matter expert in hardware or software project's structures and technology.
- Mentors more junior project managers, and provides expertise in support of highly complex projects or program design, as needed.
- Provides feedback to project team resource managers on more junior project team member's performance during the project. Performs other duties as required.
Scrum Master Job Requirements and Responsibilities:
- Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
- Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
- Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
- Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
- Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
- Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
- Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
- Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
- Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams