Agile Coach

We are seeking a technical scrum master/agile coach who has had repeated success leading the delivery of medium to large scope IT initiatives of moderate complexity that involve obtaining agreement/adoption of project objectives and deliverables by key sponsors and stakeholders.

The successful candidate who can also ensure that a comprehensive project plan is developed and maintained to track deliverables and progress toward completion on time and within budget, utilizes traditional as well as Agile based project management methodologies and tools throughout project lifecycle.

Responsibilities Include: Plan, organize, lead, and deliver IT component of business projects within time, budget, and resource constraints.

Define scope, goals, and deliverables to support the Stakeholders and Sponsors requirements.

Provide regular status updates to relevant business and IT stakeholders.

Contribute, manage, and mitigate risk and issues Log for each project/initiative.

Lead and communicate high severity items in a timely manner to resolution.

Ensures that deliverables, artifacts, and repositories meet governance standards and are audit-ready.

Provides input for client management of the roadmap, including prioritization, estimation, resource capacity demand planning, risks, and dependencies.

Works directly with Architects and Business Analysts to manage the technical aspects of a development project.

Lead cross-functional project teams made up of internal and vendor IT resources.

Leverages formal change management processes to manage changes to scope, cost, schedule and to ensure alignment in expectations.

Provide coaching of core roles as part of the Scrum practices, facilitating, create and maintain artifacts, and assist the Product Owners.

Responsible for leading Product Owner to effectively apply and improve upon Agile practices.

Required Qualifications for this position include: Bachelor’s degree in computer-related field, or equivalent work experience.

5 – 8 years of experience in IT Project Management in both Waterfall and Agile environments.

Experience managing infrastructure, application development and mobile technology projects.

PMP Certification required.

Two or more of the following Certifications: Certified Scrum Professional – ScrumMaster (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Professional – Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSP-CSPO), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe 4 Program Consultant (SPC), Scaled Agilist (SA), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

Experience working within a large-scale delivery project and project management methodologies.

Excellent presentation and communication skills: both written and verbal before all tiers of client and corporate personnel.

Experience working with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool: JIRA, Rally, LeanKit, AgileCraft Working knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks and tools, including Lean/SAFe, Scrum, Kanban Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, MS Project.

Experience with ITIL preferred.

Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

Clearance Required: Public Trust Education : Bachelor’s Degree or higher and five to 10 years’ experience.

Snapshot of Benefits: Health, Dental and Vision insurance 401K Plan with a company match Paid Time Off Paid Holidays Flexible Spending Account Student Loan Repayment Assistance Continuous Training Group Life, and Short
– and Long-term Disability Insurance Itero Group, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or political affiliation.

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