Technical Project Mgr II Contract

Job Description
The Technical Project Manager will serve as the Scrum Master/Project Manager for
several concurrent agile development teams. The Technical Project Manager is a
process coach within those teams and is responsible for driving adherence to Agile
values, principles, and best practices. For some teams, you will serve as a Scrum
Master and work within the formal roles and responsibilities of Scrum, and with others,
you will coach teams on executing other agile processes. The Technical Project
Manager also radiates team information and notifies the rest of the organization of the
team’s progress against their objectives as well as anticipating and removing blockers
and impediments. A good Technical Project Manager understands how to assess their
team’s maturity and coach them to higher levels of maturity while maintaining a
sustainable and comfortable pace for the team and the organization.
Reporting into the Manager, Technical Project Management, the Technical Project
Manager will work collaboratively as part of a larger business-unit PMO, coordinating
external dependencies when needed and participating in regular PMO-level Standups.
The Technical Project Manager will also assist their agile team in longer-term release
planning, product road mapping, capacity planning, and quarterly release planning as
needed to communicate goals and resource-allocation to the larger organization.
Responsibilities
● Serve as the Scrum Master/ Kanban Process Engineer on 2-3 Operations or
Development teams.
● Act as a servant-leader and process coach to your teams, helping them reach
higher levels of agile adoption.
● Facilitate decision-making and communication between the team and the product
owner.
● Assist the larger PMO with reporting status, longer-term planning, and meeting
large external and internal milestones.
● Ensure smooth communication within the project team and other cross-functional
teams
● Interface with external stakeholders and manage stakeholder expectations as
needed.
● Work to anticipate and quickly remove blockers and impediments to your teams’
progress.
● Work closely with other members of the PMO to track and balance inter-team
dependencies to avoid blockers and impediments related to cross-functional
work.
● Influence continuous improvement of both your teams’ methodologies and PMO
processes.
● Facilitate Team Scrum Ceremonies and actively engage in Retrospectives and
improvements
● Participate in Quarterly Planning sessions and continuously gather requirements
with Product/Engineering/Stakeholders
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
● 4 years of experience in a technology or internet-oriented project management
role
● Minimum of 2 year experience as a ScrumMaster with technical or production
teams.
● Bachelor’s Degree required
● Experience in process and implementation management in a technology
company
● Knowledge of Agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, TDD, Continuous
Integration
● CSM or PMI-ACP certification
Desired Qualifications
● Technology expertise: web software, application infrastructure, data center
deployments, content delivery, video streaming, IP transit, and server
architecture
● CSM, SAFe Certification, PMI-ACP, PMO
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