Direct Client Agile Project Manager

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Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 12+ Months

Need only on 1099 / W2

IT Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master is going through exciting journey of cloud transformation. We are looking for experienced Agile project managers/practitioners who can help Hertz cross-functional teams with the transformation journey. This is a hybrid role that also requires strong Scrum Master and Project Management experience. Lead technology teams and stakeholders in CHEF best practices, Agile SAFe, Scrum delivery practice.

When assigned to Agile projects using the SCRUM methodology, the Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master will effectively and efficiently manage the delivery sprints from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. The responsibilities of the role will include running daily scrums, collaborating with the product owner, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing tickets and unblocking barriers to keep the team moving.

You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the engineering & development teams, product owners, project management office (PMO) and senior leadership teams. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have impeccable communication skills. Manages work stress effectively and is professional.

This role is the primary "face" of a project. Successful candidates conduct their work with high levels of professionalism, quality, diligence, adaptability. The winning candidate will be skilled in agile practices, motivated, passionate, committed, and a fast learner, self-starter, able to drive work, while at the same time being adaptable, coachable, and open to new approaches to lead technology projects.

• Lead SAFe Program Increment planning for team; help define work and plan execution
• Facilitate daily grooming, stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
• Manage the development releases and facilitates sprint releases
• Guide the team in time estimating practices and facilitate team estimates
• Hold the team accountable for JIRA tool usage and documentation
• Interact with other Scrum Masters and project managers to ensure inter-team dependencies are addressed
• Drive team iteration execution, communicate with leadership and stakeholders, protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
• Maintain and publish team data and metrics in JIRA to support estimates and execution (release burn up, velocity metrics, sprint burn down etc.)
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations
• Work with team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
• Implement and support principles, rules, and processes
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
• Work with PMO team to enforce CHEF process
• Help define milestones, deliverables, for PMO and leadership reporting
• Manage and report risks, issues, dependencies
• Create and manage projects with strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in re: strategy, scope, and timeline
• Deliver solutions via projects that are on time, on budget, and in scope
• Drive close project collaboration across business, technology, and third-party teams, vendors
• Create project plans, socialize them with stakeholders, and keep them up-to-date and available on file share
• Superior & demonstrated team building & development skills to harness powerful teams
• Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of leadership within the organization
• Provide timely updates so that progress against each individual incident can be updated as required
• Presents high level project readouts for senior management
• Facilitates effective mediation of team conflicts
• Lead and direct technology solutions through all phases of the project
• Ability to bring methodology to chaos, nimble with changing requirement
• Focus on outcome manage scope, schedule, and reporting
• Focus on planning and execution. Execute work and outcome to planned schedule
• Proactively mitigate risk and solve problems
• Resilient to taking feedback and incorporate learnings to upcoming work
• Where required help establish new processes and document the process in confluence
• Ability to plan and act with minimal direction
• Ability to effectively manage work stress in fast-paced environment
• Focus on bringing value to PM role and work
• Take initiative to reach out to cross-functional team and help manage dependencies
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program

• 12 years of PM experience using Agile and waterfall…