Job Description :
Title – Sr Project Manager
Location: Lenexa, KS
Position Type – 1 contract position – on site (no remote work)
Length – 12+ Months
Interview – Face to Face Interview is required – Local candidates only

Job Descriptions:
Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate both technical and business requirements.
Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously and demonstrates good management skills.
Provide project estimation, delegate tasks, and monitor progress of the project.
Excellent planning and organizational skills.
Responsible for removing any impediments to help the delivery teams meet their sprint commitments.
Work with product owners to define user stories and clear backlog
Conduct sprint planning meetings and estimation of tasks
Run daily stand-ups, track progress, hold retrospectives, and product demos
Drives and works with a cross-functional teams including Project Management, Development, QA, Support, End User, and Product Managers
Mentor team members, provide guidance, leadership, and advocate best practices to the team in the areas of agile, scrum and overall product development process.
As a SCRUM Master ensure project deliverables are on time and on budget including:
o Proactively report risks, road blocks, Sprint burn-down and release progress.
o Finds and works to remove development and project roadblocks; motivates the development team and protects the team from outside distractions
o Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and client goals.
Assist in troubleshooting production issues and perform root cause analysis to ensure timely and accurate resolutions.
Making sure that all code is well-written, well-documented, and well-tested
Participate in latest technology research applicable to meet new business challenges.
Familiarity with best practices for technology and business level technology implementation.

Minimum Job Requirements
Experience in software development and project management using Agile/SCRUM methodology.
Experience facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and product demos
Experience in managing multiple, concurrent software projects involving cross functional teams.
Proven track record of building motivated, collaborative, and productive development teams
Excellent organizational, statistical, analytical, problem solving, written and oral presentation skills.
Experience developing critical, customer facing applications
SCRUM Master Certification is required.
             

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