Jobs via Dice is seeking a senior Project Manager/Business Analyst to join their ETS Business Systems Delivery team. The role involves overseeing project management processes, facilitating communication among stakeholders, and ensuring successful project delivery from conception to implementation.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure the project team complies with operational standards and adheres to Microsoft Azure DevOps protocols for reporting tasks, defects, and time
- Organize and facilitate project status meetings, working sessions, and relevant scrum ceremonies (e.g., daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint retrospectives)
- Prepare and distribute comprehensive progress reports and meeting minutes
- Collaborate with the team to implement and maintain the overall project or work plan
- Collaborate with product owners to prepare business requirements documentation
- Write user stories and outline both the definition of done and the definition of ready
- Coordinate project schedules in close collaboration with the Product Owner
- Oversee adherence to all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and knowledge transitions, to minimize impact on project delivery
- Effectively communicate all requirements, project plans, and changes in commitments to stakeholders
- Manage relationships and coordinate activities across teams in different locations
- Define release scope and schedule, prioritizing consistent and timely value delivery
- Work collaboratively to identify obstacles and proactively facilitate their resolution
- Seek management support to address and remove team impediments as necessary
- Represent the project team during meetings and official functions
- Develop and manage project and work plans for assigned program work streams
- Balance and adjust scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risks to ensure successful project outcomes
- Monitor progress at defined milestones, implementing corrective measures to keep projects on time and within budget
- Secure senior management buy-in for all major project plans, commitments, and variations, including requirements, quality assurance, budget, schedule, and scope adjustments
- Define team member roles and expectations, ensuring optimal resource utilization
- Support team development by holding members accountable, removing obstacles, and facilitating growth
- Leverage organizational resources to enhance capacity for project work
Requirements:
- Advanced Scrum Master
- Agile Delivery Lead/ Project Management
- Agile Project Management
- Agile Scrum Master
- Azure Devops
- Business Analyst, Change Management
- Communication
- Create User Stories
- development of business rules and user stories
- Strong knowledge of project management and software development methodology and tools: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC, DevOps, SaFE
- Experience leading and mentoring IT project teams
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to react/produce in an Agile project atmosphere
- Demonstrated ability to develop comprehensive business requirements documents and detailed user stories
- Proficient in documenting and communicating project progress against established plans, and implementing corrective measures as needed
- Ability to manage the success of metrics defined by the project and the organization
- Ability to manage stakeholder relationships
- Ability to define, implement, and maintain project process guidance (e.g., project plan and subordinate plans), tailoring organizational processes as needed in collaboration with Scrum Master
- Ability to ensure team's adherence to project processes and best practices identified in collaboration with Scrum Master
- Ability to identify, clarify, and resolve issues and risks, escalating them as needed
- Ability to negotiate changes to commitments/requirements
- Ability to review ongoing and proposed projects to identify opportunities for reuse and process improvement
- a capable Project Manager
- Agile Business Analyst