Role: Program Manager (Agile)

Duration: 12+ months

Location: Remote

Experience Level: 10+

AzureDevops - 5+ Years

Open for C2C

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

- Coaching team members in agile principles and best practices

- Hosting and guiding the team(s) daily stand-up meetings

- Backlog refinement of features, user stories, defects

-Hosting and coordinating team(s) sprint reveals

- Hosting and guiding team(s) sprint retrospectives

-Assisting the Solution Leads/Solution Architects with Feature backlog refinement and prioritization

-Assisting and removing any roadblocks identified by the sprint team

- Creating the user stories for the feature that is defined by Solution

- Lead/Team Lead/Manager Assignment of bugs that the teams need to triage by severity and impact

- Understanding capacity and resources for programs/quarters

- Estimating proper delivery dates on the feature

- Maintaining and updating required/optional fields on Features, user stories, and defects

Typical task breakdown:

- The day is mostly made up of Scrum Master duties, along with Business Analyst duties of decomposition of features. They will also be acting as a Business Analyst, and working with the Business team on requirements.

These tasks are refined in the “Position’s Contributions to Work Group” listed above.

Interaction with team:

- Working with set team of Product owners and scrum teams located in US, along with teams located in India

Work environment:

- Hybrid working environment with Agile and Traditional Program Management

Education & Experience Required:

- Bachelors degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred. PMI or PMP certification preferred. 10+ years of experience required.

Technical Skills

The individual must be able to do the following:

- Must have at least 5+ years exp with Azure Devops listed

- Create work items in Microsoft Azure DevOps

- Create Dashboards in Microsoft Azure DevOps

- Create Queries in Microsoft Azure DevOps

- Must have at least one Agile role certification

- Use Excel for pivot tables, burn down charts, data analysis, reporting,data forecasting

- Properly create presentations for senior leadership pertaining to program statistics, health, work load, target dates, etc.

Soft Skills

Excellent written and verbal skills. Must be able to communicate program(s) to sprint team, working team, and leadership team.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:

- Any individual that does not have experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps.

- Any individual that does not have traditional program management skills

- Any individual that does not have Agile training/certifications with Agile roles such as Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Scrum Master

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• AzureDevOps: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote

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