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Project Manager 2 |
Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.
The Virginia Dept of Health (VDH) is seeking a Project Manager 2 (Scrum Master) that will operate as a Servant Leader and facilitator for 2-3 Agile teams, ensuring the effective implementation of Scrum and Kanban principles. The successful candidate will be a strong negotiator, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills and drive to make a difference. We need an individual that puts the team before themselves. They will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum, removing impediments from their team, while promoting self-management and consistently driving a culture of continuous improvement.
Job Responsibilities
- Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments.
- Communicate with other management, developers, product owners and technical support specialists on product issues.
- Coach the team on best practices (maintaining a healthy backlog, develop high quality user stories, estimating and delivery)
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Maintain process documentation.
- Ensure the team members are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
- Assist as needed with backlog maintenance and reviewing quality of user stories.
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects / bugs.
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team working agreement, standards, and tools.
- Develop and manage Team performance metrics, leverage to drive efficiencies in the process.
- Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
- Empower the team to self-organize.
Required/Desired Skills
- Four-year college diploma or university degree in computer systems design or computer science, and/or 10 years equivalent work experience.
- Must be a Certified Scrum Master,
- Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience and certification is a plus
- Scrum Master or Business Analyst experience is preferred.
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Understanding of organization’s development platform and languages.
- Ability to understand technical issues.
Location: 109 Governor St Richmond VA 23219 (Onsite)
$100K-110K/A with benefits
US Citizenship or Green card holder
YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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