Top Skills - Must Haves

• agile project management

• agile

• jira

• project management

• agile methodology

• technical delivery

Top Skills' Details1. 3-5+ years' experience in managing multiple medium-to-large scale IT Infrastructure projects/programs collaborating with cross functional teams in the financial services industry.

2. 3-5 years of experience with Agile Maturity

3. Experience implementing or working with a Lean Portfolio Management Organization

4. Experience with Atlassian suite of tools, specifically Jira and Confluence

Nice to have:

• SAFE certification would be a nice added advantage

Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves

• scrum

• kanban

Job Description

Looking for someone who,

• Has a drive to lead.

• Has initiative to perform and inspire others to perform at a high level.

• Pushes themself, pushes others. Makes sure people keep their promises. Stretches the possible.

• Takes ownership of business initiatives and outcomes.

• Builds and fosters relationships required for smooth execution.

• Takes a value driven approach to delivery using the SAFe Agile Framework.

• Has a bias for action, operates with urgency.

• Can handle high pressure situations and develop viable solutions to problems.

• Able to operate independently, in thinking, and driving action across multiple teams and organizations to deliver value.

Key Functions/Duties of Position:

• Planning, coordinating, and communicating at a team and ART level. Identifying and resolving blockers for the teams. Identifying and mitigating current and future risks to delivery.

• Actively monitoring delivery and identifying areas for continuous improvement.

• Engaging with Business Stakeholders. Understanding their needs, priorities, and concerns.

• Clearly presenting delivery progress to leadership and business stakeholders from feature inception to adoption.

• Balancing refinement activities alongside sprint deliverables to maintaining a healthy backlog.

• Perform project analysis, manage risks, identify, and influence necessary course corrections, creatively solve problems.

• Facilitates daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and demos, plans projects and releases.

• Understanding the technology landscape, constantly being aware of changes, proactively communicating changes to teams.

• Onboarding resources and staff. Coaches’ teams to achieve higher levels of agile maturity.

• Managing vendor relationships.

• Navigating an ever-changing landscape showing flexibility while working with 60+ organizational units.

• Manages several concurrent projects to ensure their on-time delivery according to customer expectations.

• Oversees Jira ticketing system and assigns tasks; and applies innovative approaches, methodologies, and/or techniques while directing projects, programs, and activities.

• Utilizes experience and expert knowledge for establishing and documenting policies and standard operating procedures for the team.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.