Program/Project Manager - Agile Methodology (4-7 yrs)

Job Description :

- Lead the overall delivery setup and execution, people and financials management for the assigned software services projects/ program work streams in order to realize defined business outcomes with mid-sized, globally distributed teams.

- Partner with Agile leads, other delivery leads, clients, and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies, and tools, execution of ceremonies and drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements.

- Contribute to pre-sales and works with the legal and operations teams to ensure compliance.

- Manage relationships & status reporting within the organization, with clients & applicable third parties.

- Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program.

- People management responsibilities for team members, track leads, scrum masters, and product owners.

- Participate in Delivery Management and (or) Agile communities.

- The Scrum Master is trained in practicing Scrum and helps a team adopt Scrum in order to deliver quality releases quickly to market.

- Expertise with various Agile Methodologies -Scrum, Scrum with XP, Kanban, Scrum ban, etc.

- Expertise with various Agile Tools Jira, Xplanner, Confluence, RTC, TFS, Rally, etc. and ensuring adoption in a consistent manner.

- Act as a servant leader and shield the team from external interference and distractions to keep it in the group flow.

- Create self-organizing teams, build consensus, and resolve conflict.

- Responsible for the team to follow processes, establish and actively facilitate the cadence of all scrum ceremonies, and remove team impediments or escalate as per defined SLAs.

- Ability to partner with the product owner and manage backlog backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, ready groomed stories for next 3 iterations.

- Responsible for Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burn down Charts, QA Metrics (Quality/Technical Debt; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure activities, Team working Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker), etc.

- Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at the team and individual level.

- Articulate the overall project risk and risk mitigation plan and make it transparent to the relevant stakeholders.

- Good to have a functional understanding of the project and the business value being delivered.

- Keeps scrum artifacts updated and visible.

- Knowledge of engineering best practices (XP, Refactoring, Clean code patterns, CI/CD - DevOps, TDD/BDD/DDD, Trunk based development).