Project Scrum Master
*Local to Richmond, VA only please
**This is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days/week onsite
Description:
- The clients Information Technology Division is seeking a senior technical Project Scrum Master to drive the project delivery of the development and implementation of a cloud-based data management platform that will support the agency’s data management needs.
- The successful candidate will have a proven track record of developing and implementing effective cloud-based solutions for complex data management problems.
- The candidate must have data security cloud infrastructure with knowledge of transportation related data preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Drives consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle including project plans release, plans resource allocation and management of project, risks scope schedule and delivery of value.
- Coordinates Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning Daily Standups Retrospectives Sprint Demos Story Refinement and Release Planning.
- Tracks and communicates project’s progress from a schedule cost and risk perspective to the project team stakeholders and management.
- Establishes an environment where the teams can be effective and helps removing obstacles.
- Protects the team from outside interruptions and distractions.
- Ensures a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team.
- Tracks and reports team velocity and other project metrics.
- Promotes continuous improvement and helps teams to increase productivity.
- Helps Product Owner and team with Product backlog management.
- Adheres to the clients and VITA project management practices as defined.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
- Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements and support data management needs.
- Ensure data is collected stored and processed securely and in compliance with all applicable regulations.
- Analyze data and provide insights to support decision-making by project management teams.
- Provide training and support for end-users to ensure the platform is used effectively.
- Demonstrable capability and experience in planning implementing and maintenance of local master data systems and processes across business units and functions.
- Understanding of data and leveraging it to deliver business value. Ability to discuss requirements with data teams
- Experience in data governance concepts and data governance implementations.
- Ability to use agile approach and methodology to drive master data governance processes.
- Ensure documentation of requirements and uses cases facilitate design workshops for assigned project.
- Ensure definition of test objectives designed test plans and test cases for assigned project.
- Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
- Define measure and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
Qualifications
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of Agile project management principles and practices.
- Ability to work with customers understand their business practices and manage their expectations.
- Ability to set clear performance standards and hold team members accountable while keeping team engaged and on track.
- Ability to help Product Owners to create and prioritize Product Backlog.
- Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring coaching collaborating and team building.
- Strong analytical organizational and decision-making skills.
- Ability to analyze and document business and system processes.
- Ability to balance the competing demands for quality scope schedule and cost.
- Well-versed with Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies.
- PMP and CSM Certifications required.
- SAFe Certification preferred.
- Experience with SAFe framework is a plus.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
- Experience managing large multi-stream projects.
- PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project
- Microsoft Office products Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Experience managing cloud-based solutions for data management and analytics., Required 8 Years
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and software systems, including Azure and Google Cloud., Required 8 Years
- Experience with data processing and storage tools (e.g., Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Event Hub, Azure SQL, Synapse)., Required 8 Years
- Knowledge of transportation data and project management with transportation data is a plus, Required 8 Years
- Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning) is preferred., Required 8 Years
- Technical Business Analyst understanding of data integration and data project, Required 8 Years
- Experience in the roll-out and adoption of governance tools such as Alation, Collibra, Informatica, or Microsoft Purview., Required 8 Years
- Experience in both Agile and Waterfall project management. & Agile Scrum Master, Required 8 Years
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