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Description:

Improve the existing Agile processes and help change behaviors across cross-functional team leads to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the whole team.

Coaching techniques for effective product backlog management and leads the team to understand the need for clear and concise backlog items

Contributes to the development of release plans with data and insight and leads the team to develop quicker service delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity

Leads and coaches the teams they support in their Agile adoption, including planning Agile implementations within the organization and leading change that increase the productivity of the team

Leads the team to make measurable, continuous improvement and coach the team in self-organization and cross-functionality.

Removes impediments to the team’s progress and manages cross team dependencies, including working with peers to resolve cross-team impediments

Facilitates Agile events and provides transparency to team process and progress, including measuring and diagnosing team performance

Trusted representative of Team members and leaders, viewed as a strategic partner in the delivery of high-quality, high-value products that contribute to the success of our technology initiatives while creating an environment which embraces Agile Values and Principles

Leads in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, operationalizing the plan, build, delivery process, to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile in the organization

Makes recommendations to set the strategic direction for planning and tracking artifacts and tools, and in establishing and maintaining team metrics which provide a comprehensive view of team health, and encourage continuous improvement

Perform project risk assessments and critical path analyses to ensure team deliverables are being appropriately tracked and met. Work with Engineering directors to identify and potentially escalate project risks and issues to ensure effective resolution in a timely manner.

Define a framework to define, capture and track metrics for portfolio health and performance, working with individual project and engineering managers as applicable

Construct and maintain cross-functional integrated project plans including project timelines

Evaluate the impact of project activities across the portfolio and where there may be points of synergy or conflict

Regularly reviews and evaluates opportunities to improve the agile best practices in order to achieve higher maturity including soliciting feedback from teams

Establish end-to-end processes that focus on creating customer and business outcomes, and measuring their impact

Conducts initiative reviews to ensure consistency and performance.

Candidates interested in this role must:

Have 10+ years of experience managing complex, technology cross functional initiatives across portfolios in agile environments

Be highly competent in portfolio program management, agile methodologies, project management, and business relationship management.

Proficient in using Jira and Confluence, and willing and able to learn jql

Have practical experience in leading and successfully delivering large projects and leading Agile teams

Having experience in setting up and improving Agile processes

Have shown successful leadership of teams to deliver on goals.

Skills:

Scrum, Agile, Jira, Agile methodology, Project management, Scrum methodology, Sdlc, Agile transformation, Agile methodologies

Top Skills Details:

Scrum,Agile,Jira,Agile methodology,Project management,Scrum methodology,Sdlc,Agile transformation,Agile methodologies

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Position is 100% remote but needs to know that most of team sits in EST. I'll be stack ranking candidates who meet the top skills in the req by brand of companies and stability. This is a 3.5 year effort to start and has a lot of visibility. Client likes to see candidates from any big tech company (google, apple, amazon, meta) or tech heavy financial company like Capital One, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, etc.

• There’s a lot of interdependencies, cross functional, and team dependencies. Manager is looking for an independent contributor who will set up processes, train the team on agile, remove dependencies, and they’ll do some req gathering and convert them into user stories. Working with tech lead.

• They’ll say “here are the roadblocks, need help over here, and I see some risks here…”

• They’ll do reporting on how the project is going, sprint ceremonies, refinements, Sprint planning, help product with write some user stories, be in requirement meetings. They’ll be a second set of eyes. Help engineering & product teams.

• CorpFin (corporate finance) tech team is who this person will be working with

• Below are the projects they’ll support:

2. Public offering review – full modern, 12 year old app, super complicated, can’t make any updates to it so it’s a complete modernization

3. Private expense review

   ○ This team has been following agile already

   ○ They just want someone who will come up with new ideas & help us deliver

Experience Level:

Expert Level

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.  If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

§ Medical, dental & vision

§ Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

§ 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

§ Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

§ Short and long-term disability

§ Health Spending Account (HSA)

§ Transportation benefits

§ Employee Assistance Program

§ Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.