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Our client is seeking a highly experienced and motivated Lead Agile Project Manager to guide their software development teams in Huntsville, Alabama . This role is pivotal in driving the successful delivery of complex software projects, ensuring adherence to Agile methodologies and best practices. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects, managing scope, resources, timelines, and budgets. Your expertise in Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile frameworks, along with strong leadership and communication skills, will be essential for fostering collaboration, removing impediments, and ensuring high-quality product delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor multiple agile development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, roadmaps, and release plans in collaboration with product owners and stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, requirements, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Track project progress, identify risks and issues, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Manage project budgets and resources efficiently.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, promoting continuous improvement.
• Communicate project status, updates, and key metrics to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ensure the adoption and adherence to agile principles and practices within the teams.
• Facilitate process improvements and the adoption of new tools and techniques.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management, with at least 3 years focused on Agile methodologies and software development projects.
• Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager leading multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), principles, and practices.
• Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and build strong working relationships.
• PMP, CSM, CSPO, or similar certifications are highly desirable.
• Experience in the aerospace or defense industry is a plus.

This role offers a significant opportunity to shape product development and drive innovation within a leading technology company.

Our client, a cutting-edge software development firm, is looking for a seasoned Remote Agile Project Manager to guide their development teams in delivering high-quality software solutions. This fully remote position is integral to orchestrating complex software projects using Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration, and ensuring timely delivery of products. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), proven leadership skills in managing distributed teams, and a deep knowledge of Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.

Key responsibilities include facilitating Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. You will work closely with product owners to refine the product backlog, ensuring clear user stories and acceptance criteria. Managing project scope, timelines, and resources effectively to meet delivery commitments will be a primary focus. Identifying and mitigating project risks and impediments, and proactively addressing them, is crucial. You will foster a collaborative and productive team environment, encouraging open communication and continuous improvement. Tracking and reporting on project progress using relevant metrics and tools is essential. Ensuring adherence to Agile principles and best practices throughout the project lifecycle is paramount. You will also mentor and coach team members on Agile practices and principles. The ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, providing clear updates on project status and potential challenges, is vital. This remote role demands exceptional organizational skills, self-motivation, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We are seeking a proactive and results-oriented individual who can empower teams, drive efficiency, and deliver exceptional software products that exceed client expectations. Your role will be instrumental in the successful execution of our client's product roadmap and the continuous innovation of their technological offerings.

Our client is looking for a seasoned Senior Agile Project Manager to lead complex software development projects from inception to successful delivery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US . This role requires a strategic thinker with exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills. You will be responsible for guiding cross-functional teams through the entire project lifecycle, ensuring adherence to Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and best practices. This includes planning, executing, and closing projects, managing scope, budget, and timelines, and mitigating risks effectively. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing multiple concurrent projects, fostering a collaborative team environment, and driving continuous improvement within development processes.

Your primary responsibilities will involve facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, as well as managing the product backlog and ensuring clear communication between development teams, stakeholders, and leadership. You will be instrumental in removing impediments, coaching team members on Agile principles, and promoting a culture of transparency and accountability. This position demands a deep understanding of software development lifecycles, project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana), and risk management techniques. You will also play a key role in stakeholder management, ensuring alignment on project goals and deliverables, and proactively communicating project status, risks, and issues.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• PMP, CSM, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in project management, with at least 5 years focused on Agile software development environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with significant budgets and timelines.
• Expertise in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and a strong understanding of SDLC.
• Proficiency with project management software and collaboration tools.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge software solutions and drive project success in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US . Join our client's dynamic team and help shape the future of their technology offerings.

Our client is seeking a highly experienced and results-oriented Senior Agile Project Manager to lead complex software development initiatives within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. This pivotal role is based in the heart of San Francisco, California, US , a hub for innovation and technology. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end management of multiple software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget. You will play a crucial role in defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. This includes developing detailed project plans, managing timelines, allocating resources effectively, and mitigating risks proactively.

Your responsibilities will encompass facilitating Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. You will be instrumental in fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment, ensuring clear communication channels are maintained between development teams, product owners, and other stakeholders. A key aspect of this role involves managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and providing regular financial reports. You will also be tasked with identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path activities.

We are looking for candidates with a proven track record of successfully managing software projects from conception through to deployment. Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential. A deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Asana) is a must. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, coupled with the capacity to adapt to changing priorities, will be highly valued. Experience in risk management, change management, and stakeholder management is also critical. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field is required; a Master's degree and PMP or Agile certifications are highly preferred. Join us in building the future of technology in San Francisco !

Our client is searching for an experienced Lead Agile Project Manager to oversee critical software development projects in Des Moines, Iowa, US . This role requires a seasoned professional who can guide cross-functional teams through the entire project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will be responsible for project planning, execution, and successful completion, managing scope, resources, and timelines effectively. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and a proven ability to foster collaboration and drive results. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing multiple complex software development projects from initiation to closure using Agile principles.
• Developing detailed project plans, including scope definition, resource allocation, budget management, and risk assessment.
• Facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coordinating with development teams, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment.
• Identifying and mitigating project risks and issues proactively.
• Tracking project progress and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) to senior management.
• Mentoring and coaching project team members on Agile best practices.
• Ensuring adherence to project methodologies and quality standards.
• Managing stakeholder expectations and fostering strong working relationships.
• Driving continuous improvement within the project management processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field. PMP or CSM certification is highly preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in project management, with at least 5 years focused on Agile software development projects.
• Demonstrated success in leading and delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile frameworks, principles, and practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, or Trello.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact within a growing organization and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions. Join our team in Des Moines, Iowa, US and lead our projects to success.

By joining our Personal Risk Services (PRS) team as a Project Manager, you'll play a key role in high visibility, large-scale initiative that is focused on modernizing a key policy administration system for our personal lines business. You'll leverage your deep technical and agile project management expertise to build relationships across business and technical teams, as they develop and enhance a growing product line for boats/yachts. As you do, you'll coach the team with your agile knowledge, guide the agile ceremonies, develop, and manage financials and related metrics for your projects, tapping into your organizational and technical expertise to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. Through it all, you'll have the opportunity to bring your ideas to the table, improving upon processes that ensure we're always able to meet the needs of our business partners.

In this role, you will manage multiple and concurrent technical projects with a focus on enhancing the product and integrating it with our premium booking systems as well as other downstream systems key to our business.

Develop, implement, and manage project roadmaps to align and evolve with key business objectives.

Serve as Scrum Master to your teams, implementing and guiding agile processes that ensure successful project delivery.

Draft and manage communications, documentation, and reporting mechanisms that provide both a resource repository and regular updates to key leaders and stakeholders.

Develop, track, and manage project budget, scope, timelines, and metrics for projects under your purveyance.

Partner with your product owner to define value, ensure that the whole team delivers on that value, and inspire continuous process improvement.

Arthur Lawrence is looking for an Agile Project Manager one of our clients in Houston, TX. Please find the job description below and send us your updated resume if interested:

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe)
• Excellent communication, leadership, and facilitation skills
• Effective time management and organizational abilities

Nice to Have Skills:

• Conflict resolution and team mediation skills
• Proven adaptability in dynamic project environments

About Us:

Arthur Lawrence is a management and technology consulting firm providing enterprise-wide business transformation and business applications implementation services to Fortune 100 and Big 4 organizations. Our in-depth technical knowledge and broad experience in working with world-class companies enable organizations to leverage our capabilities in developing winning strategies and cost-effective solutions.

We are a UN Women Empowerment Principal Signatory and are certified by National Minority Supplier Development Council.

Recent Associations & Acknowledgments:

• Been recognized as a 2023 TOP WORKPLACE by the Houston Chronicle
• IAOP Award; Ranked in the top 100 internationally
• Ranked among the Inc 5000 twice - as one of the FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES OF AMERICA
• Member of HMSDC, NMSDC and NY&NJMSDC

Our Seven Pillars:

We rely on the seven core values that we believe enable us to deliver quality for our consultants and clients: Education, Integrity, Value Creation, Collaboration, Best Client, Best People, and Stewardship. Through strict adherence to these core values, we have achieved success beyond all documented forecasts and anticipation.

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Job title: Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master
Location: Remote
Contract duration: through end of December
Job description: Below

The Agile Project Manager/SM is the team role responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agrees they will use. The primary responsibilities are to serve the team in turning requirements into the working software, track progress and help the team achieve their commitments and goals. The APM will act as the Scrum Master to facilitate scrum events, supporting the team in following the Scrum framework. This role may also handle some traditional project management duties including scope definition, resource balancing, communication of status to executives, clients and partners, budget oversight and risk/issue management.

Essential Duties:
• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Helps team to achieve a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Resolves team impediments and limits the external interference the team must deal with.
• Ensure transparency and collaboration across the team and other teams working and works with other Scrum Masters across the organization to facilitate scrum of scrum events
• Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective etc.
• Facilitates cross team collaboration, and Scrum of Scrum level events
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
• Ensure product quality expectations are defined and known across the team.
• Track and monitor progress daily and help the team achieve their commitments and when problems are identified work with team to develop corrective actions.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining (aka grooming) and managing the product backlog and road mapping
• Collaborate with the team in scheduling work, including defect remediation and refactoring, guarding against the accumulation of technical debt.
• Manage and report the status of scope, schedule, resourcing, and financials. Including tracking budget and product metrics

Scrum Master Qualifications / Skills:
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Excellent skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, collaboration, increasing transparency, and root cause analysis.
• Extensive knowledge of program and project management principles and methods?
• Knowledge of multiple PPM and agile frameworks (i.e. Waterfall, Hybrid, Scrum, XP, Kanban, LeSS, etc.),
• Clear understanding of software development life cycle models
• Adept at understanding requirements, refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection.
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams.
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Visio, ServiceNow and all MS Office Tools
• Understanding of financial controls needed in project management and consulting work, experience with budget tracking.
• In-depth understanding of how to scope and estimate work.
• Understanding of execution metrics and how to leverage for teams' continuous improvement and reporting.
• Experience working with multiple teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)
• Proficient in Visio, MS Excel, PowerPoint and other Office applications to build process flows and presentations.

Education, and Certification Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of product/project development experience on an Agile Team
• Must have first level PM and Scrum Master certification PMI-PMP, (CSM ) (PSM), PMI-ACP

Preferred Certification Requirements (Any of these is a plus):
• Lean Six Sigma certification a plus?
• PMI- PgMP®
• Second or Third level Scrum Master certification (A-CSM, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)
• CSPO or equivalent

**Track record of continued and recent education in Project/Program Management and Agile/Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.

Required Skills : Agile Methodology,Scrum Master,Project Management

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No

Experience Required

• 7+ years of experience

What You'll Do

• Manage/oversee all aspects of multiple simultaneous fast-paced assigned projects with distributed teams
• Design and maintain project vision, project working standards, and agreements
• Develop project roadmap, release plan, resource allocation, funding request, communication plan, risks and issues management plan, test plan, and defect management plan
• Manage project scope, budget, project burn charts, presentations to IT/Business, daily standup, agile ceremonies, backlog grooming, and retrospective sessions
• Implement Agile methodology using Rally and Planview tools
• Facilitate project meetings, including:
  • Discovery Sessions
  • Iteration 0
  • Iteration Planning
  • Demo & Retrospective
  • Daily Stand-up
  • Backlog Grooming
• Complete project tracking/analysis reports
• Track, update, and communicate project status proactively, including:
  • Project progress
  • Budget/cost
  • Resource utilization
  • Change requests
  • Issues, risks, and risk mitigation plans
• Interface with project stakeholders at all levels of management to ensure project priorities align with business needs and expectations
• Ensure appropriate project documentation and deliverables are clearly defined and delivered
• Mentor and coach Agile teams to ensure adoption and successful use of Agile @ American practices
• Act as a liaison between business units and third-party vendors
• Use business analysis techniques for:
  • Gathering and documenting complex requirements
  • Scoping
  • Interviewing
  • Facilitation
  • System component design
  • Testing
  • Implementation

Minimum Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years of progressive broad-based information systems and business experience
• 3 years of experience managing and delivering mission-critical, high-availability large and small IT development projects using structured project management and system development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience

• 3 years of experience in Agile methods and mindset as an approach to software development
• 5 years of progressive broad-based information systems and business experience
• 5 years of experience managing and delivering mission-critical, high-availability large and small IT development projects using structured project management and system development methodologies, such as Agile/Scrum
• Airline industry experience

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Certified ScrumMaster or PMP (Project Management Professional) is a plus
• Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring teams while leveraging Agile methodologies, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and developing self-organizing teams
• Experience in a variety of computing platforms, including:
  • Mainframe
  • Client/server
  • Web
  • Cloud
  • Social media
• Experience with Agile life cycle management tools such as:
  • Team Foundation/Server (TFS)
  • Rally
  • Planview
  • VersionOne
• Experience in DevOps toolchain methodologies, including:
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Deployment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools:
  • Project
  • Excel
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
• Strong leadership skills; team-focused with high energy and a positive attitude
• Strong analytical, estimating, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to think strategically and develop tactical methods to achieve objectives and goals
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with team members, customers, and external groups
• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically dispersed environment

Language/Communication Skills & Physical Abilities

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels within the organization
• Ability to explain technical concepts and adjust messaging based on the audience, including non-technical groups
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to influence stakeholders
• Ability to work well within a team environment as well as independently
• Physical ability to safely and successfully perform the essential functions of the position, with or without legally required reasonable accommodations

Top 3-5 Skills

• Agile methodology
• SAP project exposure (a plus)
• Ability to work closely with Vendor/Partner Project Manager
• Strong presentation skills (preparing summaries and presenting)

Surrounding Team/Key Projects

• SAP S/4 Hana migration
• Finance initiatives
• Procurement projects

Required Skills : Agile Methodology,.NET

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No