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Contract Agile Project Manager

Atmosera
USA Only

*** This is a part-time contract position***

 

About Us

Atmosera is an Azure Expert MSP and Microsoft Gold Partner with both Modernization of Web Applications & Windows Server and SQL Server Migration Azure Advanced Specializations. Our employees consist of senior architects and developers who are Azure MVPs, ALM|DevOps Rangers, Azure Architects, and Azure Administrators. Atmosera is a top 10 DevOps Partner and an authorized Azure DevOps and GitHub Fast Track Provider. With Gold competencies in Application Integration & Development, Cloud Platform & Productivity, Data Platform & Analytics, and DevOps, Atmosera serves clients through application innovation, advanced data services and AI, technical training, and managed Azure Infrastructure and Security services.

Overview

The Agile Project Manager is a servant-leader, working with development teams to successfully deliver projects. This role coordinates and interfaces with internal technical resources and key customer stakeholders, in adherence to best practices of Project Management frameworks and Agile principles. This person is a self-starter, responsible for working with internal and external teams to build out work plans, ensure execution on project deliverables that drive continued project momentum, and overall to ensure satisfactory completion of software and cloud project engagements. This individual removes impediments in the delivery process, manages the project budget, and reports on overall project status to internal and external stakeholders.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

  • Manage the overall Project Management Life Cycle, including delivery schedule/calendar and communication to internal and customer teams on project status and work streams that are in flight.
  • Lead and facilitate meetings with project stakeholders from all levels, including business relationship meetings and technical team meetings to determine progress, and facilitate resolution to questions or challenges.
  • Set up product iterations/sprints and manage delivery using Azure DevOps boards and backlogs.
  • Leverage Agile or Scrum practice to deliver projects, including backlog/requirements refinement, sprints/iteration planning and execution, clarifying a definition-of-done, daily team communication, progress visualization, retrospectives/demos.
  • Develop and maintain project roadmaps, ensuring visibility across globally distributed customer and internal teams.
  • Iteratively determine and define clear, actionable deliverables for each project, in collaboration with internal and customer teams.
  • Determine clear roles and responsibilities for resources on projects and ensure that projects are appropriately staffed to be successful.
  • Provide weekly budget and status reporting for project engagements.
  • Ensure that time is properly recorded by internal project participants.
  • Manage multiple concurrent projects at various levels of maturity.
  • Identify, track, and resolve project risks/issues using best practice problem-solving techniques.
  • Manage expectations and conflicts/obstacles and unexpected difficulties.
  • Develop and manage project schedules using modern tools including Azure DevOps, GibHub and Microsoft Teams.

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Strong communication skills, including:
  • Excellent verbal/oral/written communication skills
  • Excellent listening skills
  • Strong meeting facilitation skills using modern technology
  • Proven project leadership skills, including:
  • Ability to quickly organize teams towards a project goal with little to no supervision
  • Once a team is organized, ability to set up the project vision and the project backlog in collaboration with customer stakeholders and other team members and use this to manage the project from start to finish.
  • Collaborates with others regularly, focuses on removing impediments for others at every level of the project
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and change by applying proven project management skills
  • Ability to build trust and create relationships with internal teams and with external stakeholders through interpersonal skills like mentoring and coaching.
  • Proficient in the technical skills of an Agile Project Manager, including:
  • Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with a focus on details
  • Ability to multitask within projects and across projects
  • Preferred candidates will have Scrum certification(s) from Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance.
  • PMP or PMI-ACP certification is not a requirement, but each is a very nice-to-have.
  • Solid understanding of and proven experience using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) and modern project management toolsets

Experience

  • 3-5 years' experience working as a full-lifecycle project manager delivering technical software development projects using modern Agile Project Management methodologies
  • 3-5 years' experience scheduling and participating in Scrum ceremonies and activities such as sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and backlog grooming.
  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience managing business or technical project budgets, risks, and issues

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