Scrum Master / Project Manager - Enterprise Data Warehouse

Looking for an EDW Scrum Master/PM

We have an immediate need for an IS Sr Project Manager / Scrum. The IS Sr Project Manager / Scrum Master works under minimal supervision to plan, direct and coordinate activities of large, long-term, inter-departmental infrastructure or development project(s) to ensure goals and objectives of the project(s) are accomplished within prescribed timeframe and budgetary parameters.

Candidates must have recent, real-world agile project management experience.

Responsibilities:

Communication and Presentation

• Keeps stakeholders, including management, informed of progress to goal; negotiate adjustments to the schedule and resources to ensure overall quality of completed project
• Functions as central point for all project communications
• Leverages most effective means of communication based on situation/urgency
• Develops and delivers presentation content to drive understanding and alignment across Team and Project Sponsors (Governance structure)

Establishes Effective Project Governance

• Identifies and facilitates acquiring a Sponsor role that is executed at the appropriate level of the organization
• Identifies and facilitates acquiring a Steering Group that is supporting/influencing the Sponsor while representing cross-functional perspective with common project goals
• Identifies and facilitates acquiring a Stakeholder Group that represents and can influence project direction and deliverables

Release Management

• Collaborates with multiple project teams to organize EDP releases according to the department process.
• Works to create release notes that are consistent with release scope and content.
• Ensure validate steps are planned and executed.
• Participates to ensure communications are flowing as needed, both internally and with Product Owners.

Risk Management

• Identifies & analyzes project risks to determine highest potential risk exposure that should be proactively managed
• Identifies & focuses resolution of issues and risks using appropriate levels of escalation considering impact to scope, schedule, budget or quality.

Project Detail and Schedules

• Develops a project work breakdown structure
• Develops and manages a project schedule/timeline using approved Project Management tools (WorkOtter, Jira, SharePoint, etc.)
• Develops, monitors, and manages the project staffing plan and resource allocations approved by resource managers
• Determines Resource Assignments with task estimates (ETC's)
• Use negotiation skills to balance completing work with resources needed to achieve project success

Project Financials

• Develops a project budget and track actual and forecasts weekly
• Manage project budget in Excel and Work Otter for financials and resource allocation

Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on project management & Scrum Master skills - at least 5 years of experience managing complex IT efforts.
• Management of large teams with members working in multiple locations.
• Experience structuring work into various workstreams within a large project and managing multiple IT projects concurrently.
• Strong applied use of PM & Scrum tools/techniques (planning, risk management, budgeting, cost control, assessment, software/SaaS acquisition/RFP, develop & management of Jira board, Scrum ceremonies, etc.).
• Experience with vendor contracts and vendor management.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), English-language skills, facilitation skills, etc. and ability to represent work at all levels of the organization (up to Executive levels).
• Excellent people skills developing strong relationships, building a trusting team environment, and ability to listen & translate into actionable plans.

Experience with the following is desired, but not mandatory:

• Cloud Data Platforms in support of Marketing, Customer Analytics & Personalization in an omni-channel retail environment.
• WorkOtter, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Understand business process transformation and change management practices.