Agile Project Manager Jobs

Company Overview:

• With over 3000 professionals globally, Accolite has presence across the United States, Canada, and Europe and has digital labs in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Mumbai and Chennai.
• Accolite Digital is a leading provider of cloud and digital product engineering services across the banking and financial services, technology, healthcare, communications and media, and logistics industries.
• Headquartered in Addison, Texas, Accolite helps its customers successfully navigate their digital transformation journeys by providing digital product engineering, cloud services, data engineering, DevOps, customer experience and design services.

Role: Agile Project Manager

Duration: Fulltime/6-12 months contract

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

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The Agile Project Manager is responsible for planning, leading, consulting, and managing complex enterprise level Agile projects and programs. This role will communicate with project sponsors, stakeholders, and vendors to coordinate and facilitate all project activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Defines and manages a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management
• Aids in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members
• Defines project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery
• Supports the Product Owner in managing expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance
• Executes departmental tasks as assigned
• May work on multiple initiatives with cross functional teams simultaneously, maintaining accountability of all project delivery work
• Performs delivery planning and managing project risks for assigned projects and teams
• Prepares project documentation as required including plans, stories, burn ups, burn downs, release plans, postmortem and other documents as needed
• Manages software, systems, and business projects

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, or related degree
• Three (3) years of project management related experience

Preferences

• Project Management Institute-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience managing agile software development projects
• Experience working as Scrum Master
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to manage time and multiple commitments / projects simultaneously
• Strong written / verbal communication, organizational, and analytical skills
• Familiarity with the Kanban approach, utilizing Jira and Confluence toolsets
• Expertise with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
• Understanding of leadership development and engagement techniques in professional corporate settings
• Relevant work experience in technology with a broad understanding across multiple IT disciplines
• Ability to create and deliver influential large-scale project communications with clarity, confidence, and enthusiasm