Manager - Program & Project Management

Job Title: Manager - Program & Project ManagementWork Location:Irving, TXResponsibilities:Should have technical background. No specific technology however should be sound in SDLC and should be able to get hands on if required.Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases, Handle end to end delivery with client.Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.Drive 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 performance.Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks.Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow.Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution.Presents high level project readouts for senior management.Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.Skills and Qualifications:Minimum 6+ years of project management experience and Scrum Master leading sprints.Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum.Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs.Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics.Passionate commitment to delivering products on time.Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience.Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning.Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology.Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email.Self-motivated, organized.