Position: Delivery Manager/Scrum Master
Company: Hard Skill IT
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

About the Position
1. Use Agile scrum methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and
deliver solutions
2. Facilitate daily stand-up and sprint planning, demo, and retrospective
3. Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
4. Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
5. Guide the team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
6. Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders,
protects the process from uncontrolled injection of work. Changes are evaluated and
should be intentional
7. Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep
operations running at a high performance
8. Able to challenge technical and development approach proposed by team members
and/or 3rd parties
9. Work with the Team Leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
10. Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve
their practices to ensure maximum productivity
11. Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement
stories to increase the velocity and quality of the solution
12. Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
13. Maintain team data in project management and/or ticketing software to support
estimates and execution
14. Presents high level project readouts for senior management
15. Supports product owner(s) with team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
16. Lead meetings with leadership and be prepared to discuss project status, key
performance indicators for scope, schedule, quality, resource, and cost
17. Support requirements through analysis of client need documents such as, but not
limited to, vision, scope, program roadmap, user stories, and other artifacts
18. Plan and develop schedules, monitor, and report on activities and dependencies,
including integration/development monitoring, slippage, and updating schedules
19. Plan, lead, and facilitate meetings and reviews, including creating agendas,
documenting information discussed in meetings and synthesizing decisions
20. Monitor progress and key milestones. Identify, track, report, and mitigate project
issues and risk.
21. Manage budget and cost-to-completion, and make decisions accordingly, provide
improvements plans, and reporting on budget regularly
22. Manage, track, and report on percent complete, budget burn, burn down charts,
project effort, and duration to complete and other key project metrics
23. Manage, track and report on team hours and expenses on a weekly basis, including
any contractors used on the project
24. Manage scope of work/requirements and explain implications of changes to scope
and/or objectives, and work with customers on scope creep and additional costs
25. Manage change management through change requests, phased delivery or other
methods to ensure delivery on timeline, scope, budget, and strategy expectations
About You
● Strong technical understanding of web and mobile applications/platforms
● Ability to transform abstract ideas into a working proof of concept, to delivery on
Production
● Clearly communicate capabilities, opportunities, and recommendations to both
technical and non-technical audiences
● Experience in understanding source data from various systems and platforms for data
integration
● High-energy, decisive, ability to motivate
● Ability meet product launch schedules
● Positive entrepreneurial attitude
● Exceptional relationship building skills
● Excellent written and oral communication skills
● Strong analytical capabilities
● Advanced problem-solving skills
● Ability to influence decision-making and change
● Ability to display good judgment
● Self starter and self motivated
● Comfortable working with customers and internal teams in different time zones
Educational Requirements
● Bachelor's degree
Experience
● Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years scrum master
experience, digital agency experience a plus
● Demonstrate expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
● Strong familiarity with SDLC
● Experience managing multiple complex projects
● Experience in financial management, such as budgets
● Expertise in creating project plans with detailed work breakdown structure, etc
● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
● Independent worker - proactive and can work without detailed supervision
● Ambitious and willing to grow
● Leadership skills, initiative, and good judgment
● Enterprise experience coordinating operations of multiple technical environments
● Ability to facilitate development and technical teams toward coordinated consensus
and action plans
● Possess good communication, analytical, and writing skills
● Ability to brief management and leadership effectively with technical issues and
impacts
● Previous Development or QA Engineer experience a plus