Technical Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Client:
The client provides information technology (IT) services, including business outsourcing, infrastructure technology, and application services. The application service offered by the company includes application development, maintenance, and support. The markets served by the company are financial services and insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, transportation, communications, and consumer and retail industries.

Rate Range: $60-$65/Hr

Job Description:
The primary responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• 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
• Conduct Sprint retro 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 Dashboard for senior management
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Manage other special projects as assigned

Knowledge & Skills:
Strong understanding of:

• Healthcare issues, information systems, management issues, and current trends.
• Conceptualizing business strategies while implementing information systems and technology strategic direction.
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
• 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
• Data Lake, Enterprise Data Warehouse experience would be added advantage.
• Infra, Security and Cybersecurity experience would be added advantage.

About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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