Job Description:

Job Description:

Roles & Responsibilities:

·         Manages one or more medium to large-size moderately complex projects that may be transformational and strategic in nature, including project design, development, implementation, and staffing requirements

·         Assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope, time, cost and quality objectives, and further defines project requirements and schedules

·         Develops methods, procedures, and quality objectives, including metrics for assessing progress; uses established project standards, procedures, and quality objectives, sometimes with assistance

·         Provides the technical project team with constructive feedback pertaining to project performance

·         Establishes and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients

·         Provides work direction and general technical project management to assigned projects, including scheduling, work assignments, and reviews project efforts to ensure the project meets technical specifications as outlined in the conceptual and detail design documents

·         Monitors project milestones, technical status and critical dates to identify potential jeopardy of project schedule; identifies ways to resolve schedule issues and keeps management aware of the situation

·         Coaches or mentors less-experienced employees and provides technical assistance as required

·         Conducts project kickoff meetings, communicates individual roles and project expectations and ensures that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively

·         Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction

·         Train, coach and mentor one or more teams to embrace agile values and principles

·         Train and coach the teams on all aspects of planning and execution including vision, release roadmap, user story creation, story mapping, release planning, sprint events, progress monitoring and continuous improvement

·         Help the teams to focus on sprint and release goals and delivery commitments and help to solve team impediments as well as protect the team from external interferences

·         Interface with other agile teams and the rest of the organization to manage dependencies and coach other agile teams, program level and portfolio level teams as needed

·         Constantly strive to improve the teams* performance

·         Define and roll out agile metrics and assist with the identification, collection and reporting on metrics and make recommendation for improvements to respective stakeholders across the enterprise.

·         Provide visibility to the stakeholders by defining and implementing information radiators. Define metrics, identify and collect data and report metrics and status to stakeholders periodically and as needed

·         Provide guidance on achieving higher levels of agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and enterprise frameworks

·         Provide feedback from teams* retrospectives to the Enterprise Agility Office for improvement

·         Performs other duties as required