Intermediate Project Manager

Role: Intermediate Project Manager

Location: San Diego CA (Onsite)

Type: Contract

POSITION OVERVIEW: Intermediate Project Manager

• POSITION GENERAL DUTIES AND TASKS: Intermediate PM position provides leadership and oversight for multiple concurrent high-complexity products/efforts/delivery teams executing implementation in multi-discipline business areas.
• Focus is on delivering Information Technology solutions to internal business groups involving new or improved practices procedures techniques or systems.
• Implementation is accomplished through multiple small - large cross-functional teams which are not direct reports and are shared resources.
• Teams will be comprised of individuals from multiple departments multiple business units and geographical locations.
• Efforts may typically include coordinating integrating and working with teams in a Waterfall or Iterative manner.
• Excellent influencing skills are leveraged combined with the ability to execute.
• May require occasional travel to overcome geographic technical and cultural barriers.
• The PM will be self driven and manage overall project with minimal direction or supervision.
• Facilitate workshops with SMEs and Product Owner(s) that contrubte valuable work items to a product backlog in order to deliver prioritized features/capabilities
• Ensure team is incorporating feedback from customers end users and key stakeholders to continually increase value for our customers
• Develop estimates schedules effort and cost using established estimating models best practices and past experience and provide continual improvement guidance
• Work with internal and external technology suppliers and product owner to ensure an accurate product/soltuion budget and manage to it
• Identify capacity related risks recommend potential mitigation and escalate appropriately and remediate.
• Manage scope communicating risks to scope timeline budget and resolve issues
• Identify escalate and assist in resolution of resource constraints conflicts and impediments
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders to meet program and project deliverables and benefit case. Prepare present and review delivered features and capabilities regularly with product owners and stakeholders

Required:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent years of directly related experience
• 5-7 years of experience working in an Agile environment as a Scrum Master
• Experience working with 3 teams simultaneously - 5 Years
• Experience with managing 3 to 4 Implementation projects - 5 Years
• Great knowledge and demonstrated expertise in applying Agile best practices Scrum ceremonies and scaled Agile practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a highly collaborative fashion
• Experience in all facets of the software development life cycle (requirements gathering system design development testing release cycle support) - 5 Years
• Experience with Agile execute is preferred. 5 Years
• Experience working with Product Owners - 5 Years
• Expertise with running story workshops that create product backlogs and story maps - 7 Years
• Expertise in sprint and program increment planning that produce consistent metrics and frequent delivery of working product - 7 Years
• Extensive experience using Azure DevOps or similar applications for Project tracking - 7 years

Preferred:

• Certification(s) in PMP SAFe and/or CSP or PMI-ACP)
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure (Network Database Server) technologies and concepts
• Mastery of Office 365 applications (MS Project Outlook Teams Visio Word Excel PowerPoint Skype etc.)