Job description
Greetings!
Our client Navy Federal Credit Union is the world’s largest credit union with over 10 million members, over $149 billion in assets, and over 23,000 employees.
Our client is seeking a Project Manager/Scrum Master-15696-Remote. You seem to have a rock-solid profile and your overall background seems to be a great match for the position.
Location: Remote (Must be local to either Vienna, Virginia, Winchester Virginia or Pensacola Florida)
Rate: $70/hr on W2
Please review the below information for clarity on the position description.
Description:
- 7 -10 Years combined IT Project Management experience as a Project Manager AND Scrum Master
- PMP Certification is required
- Must be local to either Vienna, Virginia, Winchester Virginia or Pensacola Florida
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – is required
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) – Nice to Have
- Proven experience as both a Project Manager and Scrum Master
- Strong focus on delivery and actively turns lessons learned into better and faster ways to deliver. (Courageous servant leadership)
- Sharepoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Service Now
1.Day to Day
- Liaise with Business, Scrum teams and Technical Stakeholders
- Strong communicator to various levels of management
- PM/Scrum Master on dedicated team
- Manage project activities through all life cycles (utilizing Service Now, Sharepoint, proprietary software, etc.) to ensure the best quality product is delivered
- Report on project activities
- Provide input to Annual Financial Plan (budget),
- Mainframe project management experience - is desired
- Experience with Service Now is desired
- Experience with Azure Dev Ops is Nice to Have
2. Project Leadership
- Manages the full life cycle of the project following SDLC
- Applies project management expertise and best practices/tools to define and execute:
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Issue/Risk Management
- Procurement Management
- Communications Management
- Change Management
- Quality Management
- Vendor Management
- Contract Management
- Uses tools to manage ongoing team efforts, updating release schedules, staffing profiles, roadmaps, applications docs, and monthly reports.
- Ensures on-time and on-budget delivery of projects through organizing, developing and routinely forecasting project plans and project budget to ensure
- Change Leadership – Manages the transition to ensure adoption of change, builds strong partnerships and communication plans with all project stakeholders and project team members
- Adheres to the PM processes and actively prepares for / participates in all structured project reviews
3. Leading Projects
- Lead as a PM/Scrum Master on a dedicated team supporting IT infrastructure upgrades and facilities upgrades.
- Leads and engages small to medium projects simultaneously focused on a portfolio of applications, all components of a larger business solution.
- Ensures alignment of all project roles and responsibilities and they are articulated to each team member, modified as required, and accomplished throughout the project
- Takes initiative to improve processes, team organization, and reporting
- Monitors and measures staff/resource assignment results against project / task goals and accountabilities
4. Vendor Relationships
- Develop and maintain effective rapport with vendors, experience reviewing invoices and overseeing work/deliverables
5. Communication
- Proactively provides consistent, concise, relevant, reliable and timely information to all appropriate internal and external audiences/stakeholders through a variety of media
- Ensures accuracy of information to enable effective business decisions
A Project Manager ensures that the work scope is completed in a quality manner, within budget, and on time by providing leadership in planning, organizing, and controlling the work effort
1. Strong project management skills, including planning, scheduling, and budgeting
2. Excellent leadership and team coordination abilities
3. Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
4. Knowledge of risk management and process improvement techniques
