Description
Prestigious Digital Marketing Agency is seeking a Senior Agile/Scrum Project Manager, with experience in working with Adobe AEM Technology stack. The Sr. Agile Project Manager is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile and traditional project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering agile projects that provide exceptional business value to the internal and external stakeholders. The APM may be responsible for managing several concurrent high visibility projects in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions. The Sr. Agile Project Manager should be well versed and have led Traditional and Agile project methodologies. The Sr. Agile Project Manager will confer with project personnel to identify, resolve issues, and manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
Responsibilities
- Lead day to day execution of one or more Agile teams
- Facilitate daily standups with team, including stakeholders
- Facilitate sprint planning sessions and provide sprint commitment updates to business
- Facilitate retrospective meetings and track actions to closure
- Work with Product Owner to prioritize product back log
- Assist development team and Business Analysts to refine product functionality and product back log user stories
- Radiate team communications and impediments to release and program level teams
- Communicate progress, raise risks or issues to Product Owner
- Shield team from external influences not relevant to current sprint work
- Collaborate and coordinate with other Agile masters in a multiple agile team environment
- Facilitate technical discussions with Architects to resolve technical challenges the team encounters
Required Experience
- The ideal candidate should have 7+ years of Project Management experience including Agile Scrum Master experience.
- Experience in ADOBE AEM Technology Stack is a must
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Must be able to work in a fast paced environment where production releases occur in 6-8 week durations
- Ability to interpret burn down charts, Agile & Kanban boards to know the teams progress
- Ability to identify RISKS or ISSUES during the sprint and help team in resolution of issues which impede progress.
- Good exposure on sizing techniques used in agile process viz. Story Points
- Ability to improve team maturity levels in understanding process and improving productivity in terms of velocity
- Ability to train or educate team on agile process
- Exposure using Agile Life Cycle Management tools like JIRA or Rally
- Knowledge management tools such as Sharepoint, Confluence etc.
- Ability to travel to Mexico twice every 6 months.
Preferred Experience
- 5+ years as a project manager
- Experience in E-commerce and Content Management Systems
- Cloud project experience
- Ability to function as Agile Master for multiple projects
- Ability to mentor other Agile masters is a plus
- Spanish language knowledge is highly desired
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or other related field
- Most recent experience as a Agile Master for Adobe AEM projects
- Must be a Certified Agile Master
- Good communicator with excellent planning and execution skills