Project Manager 2 – Contract Position

Contract Length: 3 months with the possibility of extending based on performance and project need.
**Local Richmond, VA candidates required.

Hybrid Role.

The IT Project Manager II will operate as a Servant Leader and facilitator for 2-3 Agile teams, ensuring the effective implementation of Scrum and Kanban principles.

The Scrum Master will operate as a Servant Leader and facilitator for 2-3 Agile teams, ensuring the effective implementation of Scrum and Kanban principles. The successful candidate will be a strong negotiator, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills and drive to make a difference. We need an individual that puts the team before themselves. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team, while promoting self-management and consistently driving a culture of continuous improvement.

Liaison & Communication

• Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments.

• Communicate with other management, developers, product owners and technical support specialists on product issues.

• Coach the team on best practices (maintaining a healthy backlog, develop high quality user stories, estimating and delivery)

Development

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

• Maintain process documentation.

• Ensure the team members are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Application Support

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance and reviewing quality of user stories.

• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.

Management

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team working agreement, standards, and tools.

• Develop and manage Team performance metrics, leverage to drive efficiencies in the process.

• Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions.

• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.

• Empower the team to self-organize.

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Four-year college diploma or university degree in computer systems design or computer science, and/or 10 years equivalent work experience.

• Must be a Certified Scrum Master,

• Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience and certification is a plus

Knowledge & Experience

• Scrum Master or Business Analyst experience is preferred.

• Understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.

• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.

• Understanding of organization’s development platform and languages.

• Ability to understand technical issues.

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.

• Team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.

• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.

• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.

• Collaborative in driving decisions.

• Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.