Agile Practitioner III

Location: Newport Beach, CA
Salary: $60.00 USD Hourly - $70.00 USD Hourly
Description: Our top insurance client is currently seeking an Agile Practitioner III

Job Title: Agile Practitioner

Location: Newport Beach, CA (2-3x per Week Hybrid)

Contract: 6+ Months (Contract to Hire/ Extend)

Summary:

• Agile Practitioner: As a Lead Agile Practitioner, you'll play a key role in client growth and long-term success.
• This position will report to the Data & Technology Manager and will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of data initiatives within the client Life data team.
• These initiatives deliver data products that support data-driven decision making for the business.

How will you make an impact:

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the software development life cycle
• Build and develop strong relationships with your team, business and technology stakeholders.
• Manage and communicate project resource needs, risks, issues and upstream/downstream dependencies to ensure value-based delivery and results.
• Apply Scrum framework for project execution and delivery
• Create visibility into progress of each sprint/ release through use of velocity, burndown charts, committed vs. completed metrics, etc.
• Create consistent planning, visibility, and reporting practices among development teams, both within individual product programs and across the portfolio
• Support and apply the discipline of agile project and program management and related best practices.
• Facilitate daily activities with cross-functional data engineering teams (pods) and business stakeholders that lead to outcomes and value generation
• Act as Agile mentor/coach
• Serve as Scrum Master and Technical Project Manager on one or more Agile Teams while simultaneously teaching and reinforcing best practices

The experience you bring:

• Over 8 years of project management experience with a focus on technology delivery, execution and process improvement initiatives.
• Proven experience in managing projects utilizing agile methodologies.
• A strong understanding of the software development life cycle and working with technical or data analytic teams.
• Experience supporting change management efforts, with the ability to identify and analyze impacts for internal stakeholders affected by initiatives.
• Ability to successfully deliver with geographically distributed data engineering teams
• Excellent facilitator and communicator, with ability to engage with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts and financial reporting.
• Outcome-driven self-starter who's comfortable with ambiguity, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative culture.

What makes you stand out:

• Over 4 years experience managing delivery for data technology organization
• Experience working in a hybrid Scrum master and Project Manager role
• A data driven individual with a good understanding of data engineering, data governance, and data quality fundamentals
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Financial services domain knowledge
• Experience operating in complex data systems environment
• Demonstrate flexibility to adapt to changing organizational priorities

TECHNCIAL SKILLS:

Must Have

• Act as Agile mentor/coach
• Apply Scrum framework for project execution and delivery
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP
• Experience working in a hybrid Scrum master and Project Manager role
• Over 8 years of project management experience with a focus on technology delivery, execution and process improvement initiatives.
• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the software development life cycle
• Serve as Scrum Master and Technical Project Manager on one or more Agile Teams while simultaneously teaching and reinforcing best practices

Nice To Have

• Financial services domain knowledge

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