Technical Project Manager

Technical Project ManagerTechnical project managers chief responsibility is to manage the development sprints effectively and efficiently from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Your role will include mentoring your groups (interfacing with clients, running of daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets) and unblocking barriers to keep the teams moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the senior management, clients and development teams. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing company where you'll have the opportunity to guide the development of your teams.Responsibilities/Oversite:Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospectiveManage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releasesCreate or analyze business requirements documents and project timelinesGuides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimatesDrive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performanceWork with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocksAble to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivityLeads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the programImplement and support principles, rules and processesProactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flowMaintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and executionPresents high level project readouts for senior management and clientsSupports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scopeManage other special projects as assignedOther duties as neededSkills and Qualifications:BA/BS degree or equivalent work experienceMinimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprintsDemonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environmentExpert coach on implementation of agileDeep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental developmentStrong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams' needsPassionate commitment to delivering products on timeComfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audienceDeep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planningAbility to understand and represent both the business and technologyExcellent communicator in person, over the phone and through emailSelf-motivated, organized