Project Manager/Scrum Master

Project Manager/Scrum MasterLocation: Phoenix, AZWorking with leading integrated teams to deliver solutions in support of key product initiatives programs by working closely with product managers, owners, scrum masters, architects, developers, and QA teams.Working within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the technology development schedule for major product releases.Handling and tracking status, progress, and other critical metrics in relation to the plan and publishes progress reports to senior partners.Assigning development resources to activities and monitoring progress and performance across resource channels.Maintaining release and dependency plans across customers, development teams, external partners, and third parties.Actively identifying, managing, and raising risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives.Pro-actively anticipating program project’s risks and issues and ensures that appropriate mitigation planning is in place to avoid compromising delivery.Applying discretion on when to raise issues versus work through issues with the team.Resolving impediments precluding teams from making progress against plans and deadlines.Leveraging knowledge and understanding of solution arch, system integration, and E2E data flow for Test Management, Test data preparation, Test execution, and coordination with Test Engineers and QA Leads for impacted tech teams.Ensuring deliverables across Technology teams are high quality and clearly documented.Conducting Pre and Post PI Planning sessions, daily stand ups, scrum of scrums, and retrospectives at the end of each planned unit of work with a focus on continuously learning from the past.Finding opportunities to embrace innovative technologies and processes.Ensures effective usage of change control procedures and processes to maintain control on scope, schedule, and cost.Contributes to continual process improvement.