Agile Project Manager

Every career journey is personal. Thats why we empower you with the tools and support to create your own success story. Be challenged. Be heard. Be valued. Be you ... be here. Enterprise Reporting (ERPS) team delivers data products across the Organization. The Agile Project Manager is responsible for the daily operations of ERPS to deliver projects on time with quality, and capacity planning based on business priority. Remove impediments for the Agile team by helping those outside the team understand which of their interactions with the Agile team are helpful and which are not. The Agile Project Manager champions continuous improvement within their team and needs to utilize agile practices which benefits the team such as Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban etc. The Agile Project Manager guides the team on the principle of self-organization, build a safe environment where team members can raise problems and ask questions without fear of judgement, with a focus on problem solving and collaboration. Agile Project Manager is responsible for prompt intake and backlog management. Able to consolidate information from multiple sources into a consumable format for leaders.

• Demonstrates servant leadership, Independent and self-organized for problem solving. Facilitates requirements gathering, creates project plan, monitors dependencies, progress, capacity, documentation, resourcing, project change. Identifies and mitigates risks and resolves conflicts quickly. Facilitates work completion without coercion/dictation.
• Enable to prioritize and maintain Backlog. Convey to team: business case, milestones & necessary information to achieve desired results. Completing the project, provide status updates/reports for management. Accountable on Jira management and oversight to self-discover exceptions, updates needed. Escalates blockers and observations to leadership with an action plan.
• Leverages effective written & verbal communication for business user communications, pre-scoping, facilitate end user testing, Monthly status meetings etc., The Agile Project Manager facilitates Agile ceremonies including planning, prioritization, standups, retrospective etc., Influential to coach others on Agile best practices on Scrumban/Kanban methodology to achieve high performance.
• Manages stakeholder relationships, resolves conflicts, provides status updates and ensures team collaboration for successful product delivery. May manage one or more agile team concurrently. The Agile Project Manager facilitates discussion to effectively breakdown work to stories/understand the work needed.
• Dynamic, adaptive and action what benefits the team. Facilitates show and tells and update catalog. Influential and go-to person who enables team collaboration through team engagement to champion continuous process improvement which increases productivity. Assesses agile maturity of teams and develops and implements plans to grow the maturity as necessary.
• Expectation is to lead one or more Agile team supporting one or more applications across India and US. The Agile Project Manager will be expected to lead Agile teams engaged in more complex technologies and initiatives. Builds productive relationships and able to interact with all team members through active listening and collaboration; is open-minded, objective and adaptive to change.
• Create and utilize visual dashboards/roadmaps and metrics in Jira to help the team understand performance, priorities, and vision/roadmap. Jira task automation for repetitive activities.

• Bachelor s Degree in computer science, Engineering, Technical Discipline.
• 5+ years of experience as project manager, Delivery lead/Scrum master with business analyst experience.
• 5+ years of experience within Analytics/Technology field on a functional team using Agile methodologies.

• Agile Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Meeting Facilitation
• Microsoft Office
• Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Independent Thinking
• Software Development

• Ability to travel up to 5% quarterly

• All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.
• Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Project Management Regular