Agile Project Manager

Volkswagen Financial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, is the trusted key to mobility for its brand partners. We are committed to supporting the Audi, Ducati, and Volkswagen brands and their Dealers, specializing in providing accessible mobility solutions for its Customers. The company's offerings include Retail Leasing, Retail Financing, Commercial Financing for new and used vehicles, and End-of-Term vehicle disposition.

Role Summary

An IT Agile Project Manager (APM) is responsible for planning, leading, organizing and motivating agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering agile projects that provide exceptional business value to users. An APM may be responsible for managing several concurrent project or product development initiatives in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions and vendors. An APM may play a number of roles in actual practice, blending more traditional project management and scrum master practices to achieve high quality results.

Responsibilities within this Role

Project Management - 50%
Management of full technology development lifecycle in a disciplined iterative project delivery model (DiPD) following applicable VCI SDLC practices, guidelines and procedures including:
o Scope management
o Schedule Management
o Budget Management
o Change Management and Impact Analysis
o Communications Management
o Risk and Issue Management
o Vendor Delivery Management
o Procurement Management (provide support to Procurement Management team to fulfill deliverables)
Manage vendor and cross-functional team dependencies for product development and integrations to meet initiative objectives
Maintain project and/or program tracking and work breakdown structures (Planview, MS Project, SmartSheet)
Understand, advocate and communicate business unit objectives, goals, vision and strategy to team to enable application/technology solutions that contribute towards achieving value
Ability to recognize and mitigate conflict and problems with project, product and team resources and apply escalation appropriately
Environment/Project coordination (balancing multiple project delivery dates with environment constraints)
Ensure that application processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards.
Manage development initiatives with major vendors and service providers to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization in a socially and compliant manner.
Support action plans where necessary to improve Business Unit satisfaction levels.
Provide inputs to scheduled progress reporting which includes comparing forecasts to actuals (budgets, schedules, scope, etc)
Support Resource Manager in recruiting which includes interviewing, hiring and onboarding
Ensure all approvals are captured as required through the development lifecycle
Coordinate application production support for defined products

Scrum Master - 50%
Ensures a minimum a two sprints worth of user stories are ready in the team backlog
Sprint planning and tracking
o Agile tracking tools (i.e. JIRA, TFS, )
o Manage story progression in lifecycle (wall status within a sprint)
o Burndown
o Velocity
o Capacity planning
o Release planning
Facilitate the daily standup meetings
Facilitate the sprint planning meetings
Facilitate the sprint demo reviews
Facilitate sprint retrospectives
Accountable and responsible that the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions, reduce/prevent interruptions (protect the delivery team)

Qualification requirements

Required Experience:

10+ years' experience in project management role managing a high performing multi-function teams of 10+ resources in application development, implementation and ongoing product support
Responsibility of managing a $1M+ budget per project investment
5+ years' experience in Scrum Master role managing multiple high performing multi-function teams of 5+ resources concurrently
10+ years of Software / Application Development (Multiple development methodologies)
5+ years of Auto Finance Experience
5+ years of Vendor Management Experience leading technology integrations

Required Education:

B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or related discipline, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or equivalent job experience.
PMP Certification or equivalent

Desired Education:

Advanced Degree a plus
Scrum and/or SAFe Agile Certification

Required Skills:

Agile Software Delivery Lifecyle
Traditional Software Delivery Lifecycle
Scrum Master experience:
Sprint planning and tracking
Facilitating daily standup meetings, demo reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning
Project Management experience in:
Scope
Schedule
Budget
Change Management and Impact Analysis
Communications
Risk and Issue
Vendor Delivery
Procurement

Desired:
Certified Scrum Master

Volkswagen Financial Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

This role description is a guideline and does not create contractual rights between the Company and any of its applicants. The Company does not enter into any type of employment contract, implied or written, with its applicants regarding job security.

This Organization participates in E-Verify. We maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Volkswagen Financial Services - The key to mobility

VW Credit, Inc., dba Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS), was founded in 1981 as the captive financial services arm of Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and is affiliated with Volkswagen of America, Inc., Audi of America, Inc. and Ducati North America, Inc. VWFS offers services to Volkswagen, Audi, Ducati customers, and authorized dealers as Volkswagen Financial Services, Volkswagen Credit, Audi Financial Services, and Ducati Financial Services. The company offers competitive financial products and services to customers and authorized dealers in the United States. VWFS is headquartered in Reston, VA.

VWFS is seeking individuals from diverse professional backgrounds who can bring fresh perspectives and ideas to help us drive forward in the ever-evolving financial and mobility services industry. As we continue to grow, we are excited to welcome talent from a variety of professional backgrounds to join our team. We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, as it fuels creativity, fosters innovation, and strengthens our ability to serve our customers better. Are you a forward-thinker, a problem-solver, or an innovator? This is an opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that values diversity, creativity, and collaboration.

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