IT Project Manager (Scrum/Agile)

Plan and implement the design, development, and delivery of approved projects/programs, including analyzing project requirements, planning product development; controlling, and monitoring project progress, ensuring the project is completed on schedule, and guiding compliance with the process and regulations during project implementation. Manage complex and large-scale cross-team, cross-functional initiatives. Interface with engineers or outsource IT vendors to estimate work efforts, define milestones, and manage resources. Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to management and project stakeholders. Engage the project teams to achieve goals. Gather data/metrics and observations to identify obstacles and drive for improvement. Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations, and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities. Drive results proactively. Help manage the cross-functional strategic planning and business planning process, leading conversations with key stakeholders to develop concepts for strategic initiatives and developing those into detailed program/project plans (including roadmaps, funding planning, resource planning, etc ). Implement improvements to the engineering organization and the project management process. Share program/project process frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be adopted throughout the organization. Responsible for managing business aspects of engineering, including managing 3rd party software and human vendors. Communicate effectively with engineers, BA, business area leads, Outsource IT vendor and other stakeholders. Integrate activities through identifying and managing interdependencies to ensure projects are well aligned. Identify, manage, and control financial and operational risks and issues that affect the project/program under management. Conduct project reporting and ensure that the change management and control processes comply with the project management standards and procedures. Assure project quality.