Job Description:

The Agile Technical Project Manager will be part of the IT Project Management group (IPM). The IPM is Shared Services Program management function to help the business units and the Enterprise achieve the business strategy and goals. The IT Program Manager and IPM define OKR's (Objectives, Key Results) in support of Enterprise and Portfolio strategic initiatives
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
Manage Stakeholder Relationships
Manage Development Project & Sprint Plan
Manage Project Progress
Manage Project Acceptance
Manage Project Transitions
Evaluate & Improve Project Performance
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
Other duties as needed
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, burn down 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