Job Description

Technical Project Manager & Scrum Master
 

· The Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master is chief responsibility is to effectively and efficiently manage the development sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment.

· Your role will include running daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets and unblocking barriers to keep the team moving.

· You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the engineering, customer success and senior management teams.

· The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and demonstrate strong leadership and technical abilities.

Responsibilities

· Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective

· Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases

· Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines

· Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates

· Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)

· Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance

· Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks

· Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity

· Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program

· Implement and support principles, rules and processes

· Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow

· Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution

· Presents high level project readouts for senior management

· Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope

· Manage other special projects as assigned

· Other duties as needed