Project Manager/Scrum Master
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America
Contract Minneapolis , Minnesota, United States Posted 2 months ago
About Position
Project Manager/Scrum Master (Contract)
$0.00 / Hourly
Minneapolis , Minnesota, United States
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Contract Minneapolis , Minnesota, United States Posted 2 months ago
Skills
• Must have experience managing AGILE Scrum Teams • Demonstrated communication and influencing skills. • Knowledge of Project Management methodologies and tools. • Knowledge and understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). • Knowledge of industry products functions marketing and/or service policies and procedures. • Experience in formal techniques of risk management • Excellent organizational skills. • Experience working with some of the following Agile tools: ServiceNow Agile JIRA Confluence AzureDevOps or other similar ALM tools • Experience working closely with business teams • Excellent organizational skills. • Excellent relationship management skills • Experience in change management • Financial and Insurance Product Industry Experience is a plusDescription
• Facilitate program events such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, the Scrum of Scrums, and the Portfolio leadership meetings.
• Facilitate Program Increment (PI) planning events and readiness ceremonies and drive activities and tasks for the development of a vision, roadmap, and program backlog
• Facilitate synchronization events, including ART sync and Solution Train sync
• Facilitate Release and DevOps activities to support the delivery of end-to-end value.
• Track and report the ART performance, identify dependencies, risks, and impediments identified during PI planning and throughout the PI lifecycle
• Facilitate the Agile Release Train (ART), escalate impediments, manage risk, and help drive program-level continuous improvement.
• Resolve escalated impediments, and/or escalate impediments to Leadership and Management as required
• Communicate the train’s progress via weekly updates to management highlighting successes, risks, areas of improvement, and suggested resolutions.
• Facilitate team collaboration with Solution Architect and Test Lead to ensure high quality technical delivery.
• Participate in Portfolio and Program Management process improvement and standardization activities.
• Interface with project stakeholders
• Consult with management on an ongoing basis to maintain strategic link to business needs.
• Assure compliance with company project management policies and standards.
Responsibilities
- • Minimum 4 years working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, DevOps)
- • With a minimum of 2 years of in SAFe environment.
- • Direct experience working as an RTE or Program Manager
- • Bachelor’s degree
- • Experience implementing SAFe or a similar Agile scaling framework
- • Facilitating many of the SAFe ceremonies including but not limited to PI Planning, PI shareout, scrum of scrums, demos
- • Identifying and managing risks and dependencies between teams
- • SAFe certified
- • Hold at least one SAFe certification: SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or SAFe Program Consultant.
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