Agile Technical Project Manager

Position : Agile Technical Project Manager

Location : Rancho Cucamonga, CA (On-Site)

Duration : Long Term Contract

Position Summary / Position

The Agile Technical Project Manager will be part of the IT Project Management group (IPM). The IPM is Shared Services Program management function to help the business units and the Enterprise achieve the business strategy and goals.

The IT Program Manager and IPM define OKR's (Objectives, Key Results) in support of Enterprise and Portfolio strategic initiatives

Responsibilities include (but not limited to) :

Manage Stakeholder Relationships

Manage Development Project & Sprint Plan

Manage Project Progress

Manage Project Acceptance

Manage Project Transitions

Evaluate & Improve Project Performance

The primary responsibilities will include but not limited to :

Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective

Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases

Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines

Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates

Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated / intentional)

Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance

Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks

Conduct Sprint retro analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity

Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program

Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow

Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution

Presents high level project Dashboard for senior management

Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope

Manage other special projects as assigned

Other duties as needed

Knowledge & Skills

Strong understanding of :

Healthcare issues, information systems, management issues, and current trends.

Conceptualizing business strategies while implementing information systems and technology strategic direction.

Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.

Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment

Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum

Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development

Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices

Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams needs

Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story / epics

Passionate commitment to delivering products on time

Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience

Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity,

user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning

Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology

Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email

Self-motivated, organized

Data Lake, Enterprise Data Warehouse experience would be added advantage.

Infra, Security and Cybersecurity experience would be added advantage.