Technical Project Manager
Brooksource
Fortune 50 Healthcare Client
Remote
Do you see your next career move taking you to a Fortune 50 healthcare company? Do you aspire to work in a dynamic, high-energy, agile environment? If you feel these words describe your ideal career opportunity, we may have the position for you!
Our client is looking for a technical Project Manager to play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of complex projects related to data modernization efforts. These projects can range in scope but will be focused on integrating new platforms for ingesting, processing, or sending clean data to the appropriate external and internal parties. You will oversee multiple scrum teams, applying both agile and waterfall methodologies to achieve project goals. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to ensure timely and accurate data processing and submission.
Responsibilities:
- Practice servant leadership and embody Agile values and Scrum practices.
- Facilitate Scrum events (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives).
- Remove impediments and foster continuous improvement within the scrum teams.
- Ensure transparency by maintaining accurate and up-to-date information on project progress.
- Empower team members to self-organize and make decisions.
- Resolve conflicts and promote collaboration among team members.
- Monitor and track the team’s progress toward sprint goals.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with the business community, understanding their informational and operational needs.
- Document current and future state business processes in collaboration with business partners.
- Formulate and define project scope, schedule milestones, tasks, and objectives.
- Prepare and present statements of work and proposals for project activities.
- Provide regular reporting and updates on project status, budget impacts, and objective achievement to IS management and business units.
Preferred Qualification
- Proficiency in agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. Understand the principles behind agile practices and how to apply them effectively.
- Experience working with technical teams, and a sound technical foundation in SQL and software development best practices.
- Ability to guide teams through sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Familiarity with agile tools and techniques for backlog management, burndown charts, and velocity tracking.
- Strong project management skills, including creating and maintaining project documentation (project plans, goals, staffing, schedules, risks, etc.).
- Experience with both waterfall and agile project management approaches.
- Ability to define project scope, milestones, tasks, and objectives.
- Proficient in risk management and contingency planning.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Active listening skills to understand stakeholder needs and concerns.
- Ability to facilitate meetings, workshops, and presentations effectively.
- Skilled in resolving conflicts within teams or between team members.
- Foster collaboration, trust, and respect among team members.
- Ability to assess the project environment, identify risks, and adapt accordingly.
- Understand the context in which the project operates and adjust strategies as needed.
- Take initiative to address challenges and drive progress.
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