Agile Project Manager 

Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months, contract
Pay: $65-75/hour W2

JOB DESCRIPTION
Our Retail client with over $80B in annual revenue has over 2,000 stores, across 21 US states, with over 400,000 employees. This company is a leader in sustainable retailing with a passion for delivering excellence. By driving omni channel growth, efficiency in the shopping experience and continuing to develop with new technologies; this company is growing and developing continuing success. The leadership team strives for work-life balance for all its employees, with options for overtime if desired.

This role is Agile oriented with some waterfall, therefore needing somebody with experience that can perform as a Scrum Master and a PM, This person should have experience in Infrastructure Cloud (Not applications in the cloud) and/or Hosting (Data Center, virtualization, Operating System Upgrades).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for facilitating all the scrum ceremonial meetings like the Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint Demo/Review & retrospectives.
• Helps the Product Owner and Scrum team create & maintain a healthy product backlog and helps the team in continuously managing & prioritizing the backlog.
• Helps the team plan sprints based on team capacity, remove impediments that may hinder progress and continuously monitor sprint progress and assist the team in meeting the Sprint commitments.
• Track team(s) velocity and publish metrics like velocity charts, sprint burn up/down charts and release burn up/down charts.
• Create, setup and maintain the Scrum/Kanban JIRA/ADS boards for the team and ensure all work is tracked and updated regularly on the board.
• Manage the overall scope of the project and negotiate with the PO/business on priority and what can be accomplished by the team.
• Protect the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
• Build out a sprint calendar, release plan(s) and manage the overall timeline & delivery of the project.
• Review project team allocations, project related POs/invoices & manage the project financials.
• Identify, track, manage, escalate and report on risks and issues.
• Create & publish weekly Clarity project status reports & host Steering Committee meetings.
• Negotiates and aligns the expectations with the capacity/ commitment and the team deliverables
• Keeps the RTE/ Program Manager and Portfolio lead informed of the milestones/ deliverables of the team
• Escalates as needed to remove impediments for the team
• Establish an environment for the team to thrive and bring out the best in them.
• Motivate the team and build positive, lasting relationships with the team and other stakeholders.
• Coach the team on Agile best practices and help the team continually improve by using retrospective meetings as learning and adjust/improve based on the findings/recommendations.
• Accountable to follow Agile processes for delivery of commitments
• Provides feedback into the improvement of Agile practice
• Responsible for end-to-end execution and on time, on budget and on scope delivery of the project
• Responsible for Financial Management, Risk Management and Dependency management for the project
• Responsible for developing a comprehensive project plan
• Works with the resource manager on the resource planning for the project
• Accountable for maintaining the RAAIDD log
• Escalates when required and holds people accountable for mitigation and resolution of risk and issues
• Works with Project Accountants to get information for Financial Management on the project
• Responsible for managing changes in project scope, objectives, requirements, and resources and adherence to change control policies
• Collaborates with solution team to take the project through change control process when required
• Collaborates with other project managers for dependencies and manages them with minimal impact to delivery
• Manages and tracks interdependencies and interfaces with related projects
• Collaborates with the solution team to ensure adherence to release management practices on the project
• Accountable and responsible for receiving Go-No-Go Signoff
• Holds delivery teams accountable for the development of architecture design document, test plans, deployment and hypercare plan
• Sets and manages stakeholder expectations
• Responsible for project level governance and status reporting to right stakeholders at cadence
• Keeps the Portfolio Lead and Program Manager informed on all the risks, issues and dependencies on the projects and seeks helps when necessary
• Responsible for issuing a communication close out email for the project and other close out activities including updating Clarity and retrospective
• Responsible for issuing communications for major changes (Before and after the change) that affect multiple applications and/or stores
• Set vision for the project, analysis and resolves issues.
• Understand the teams’ perspectives and protect the team by negotiating with stakeholders as required.
• Accountable to follow processes and ensures all artifacts are produced and phase gates approvals are obtained
• Coaches and mentors, the project team on the process and tools