Job Title: Project Manager (Contract) - Job#5329
Location: Remote or Hybrid work schedule, Tue, Wed, Thursday in Richmond, Virginia
Work Status: Green Card holders with 3 years residency or US Citizenship required. No Corp to Corp.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- PMP, Scrum, and Agile certifications preferred.
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate technical concepts to all audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to be successful operating in a virtual environment.
- Ability to ask probing questions, identify unstated assumptions, and resolve conflicts.
- Experience with Agile tools like Version 1, Jira is preferred
- Broad knowledge and expertise of Project/Agile methodologies and industry best practices to lead high performers who work individually as well as a cohort
- Ability to work some evenings and weekends (10%) to support IMR, DCR, Production Releases, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate intake and own work execution of technology-based architecture team members with inputs from customer, IT leadership, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters and other stakeholders
- Coordinate prioritization, resource allocation, capacity, and assignments by working closely with stakeholders
- Apply agile frameworks and best practices like SAFe, Scrum and Kanban to manage architecture backlog
- Clear impediments for the team and communicate risks, issues, and organizational impediments to leadership.
- Facilitate agile/scrum ceremonies such as PI ceremonies, sprint ceremonies, scrum of scrums, summits and working sessions
- Ensure a healthy continuous improvement environment
- Provide communication and reporting to stakeholders on current health, areas for support and plans for improvement
- Manage innovation portfolio, including pipeline of initiatives from concept through disposition and communicates initiative and portfolio status
- Own and/or support presentation & narrative (story telling) of technical concepts, recommendations, alternatives to a diverse set of stakeholders
- Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of project-oriented work efforts. Establishes and implements project management processes and methodologies for the IT community to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations.
- Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review; and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
- Responsible for tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of customers. Coordinates communication with all areas of the enterprise that impacts the scope, budget, risk and resources of the work effort being managed.
- Assists Program Manager(s) in partnering with senior management of the business community to identify and prioritize opportunities for utilizing IT to achieve the goals of the enterprise.
- Must possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques.
About Delphi-US
Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations from Main Street to Wall Street. Our mission is simple: To connect great people to great companies. We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions along with increased interviews and offer rates. You'll find our team is friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf, armed with industry trends, an understanding of employer needs.