Agile Project Manager

Genesis Consulting
US - Maryland - Hyattsville
July 27, 2024

Genesis Consulting has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Agile Project Manager with a passion for growth and business transformation for a Federal client in the Washington, DC area.
Join our team and work on challenging, complex solutions that are driving innovation and technology advancement in the local community.
Work with teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe.
Our clients are some of the world's leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Agile Project Manager will assist in the successful product development support with an emphasis on agile, test-driven development, and continuous integration methodologies to assist and enhance efforts to secure new applications.
The successful candidate will champion planning, coordination, and communication of the multidisciplinary/cross-functional teams responsible for delivering agile product development and defined subsystems, products and/or services.
The Agile Project Manager will provide necessary services, qualified personnel, material, and methodologies as needed and approved by IRS to perform agile IT Portfolio/project, and development support services for digital/online applications.
Duties include but may not be limited to:

Own and drive complex efforts with multiple threads of work including several significant releases across the life of the project
Provide technical leadership/guidance to the project team in performance of the work, and review the quality of work products
Organize, direct, and coordinate the planning and production of all project support activities
Project planning, scheduling, and monitoring
Managing data calls to include coordination, analysis, tracking, and data gathering
Creating and updating project management plans to include resources, risk management, and other management controls to be employed to meet performance and schedule requirements
Establish and tracking project metrics
Conduct project status meetings with project stakeholders
Critical transactional/product based effort integrating significant portions of existing delivery and support teams
This is a hands-on role with an advanced agile Delivery/Technology team with heavy executive leadership engagement
Able to effectively articulate demonstrated experience leading agile and IT delivery teams
Responsible for working with a wide stakeholder team to deliver large cross site solutions in a competitive, fast paced, collaborative, and multi-system environment
Ability to see, articulate and build the big picture while still focusing on meeting critical and often tight delivery commitments
Exercise latitude in determining technical objectives of assignments for self and teams
Must have experience a planning, developing and maintaining resource loaded program schedules
A seasoned, experienced professional having a wide range of professional experience and possessing a strong understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories and expert at applying technical standards and methodologies to resolve a wide range of issues in creative ways
Shows initiative on assignments, and professionally executes projects as a technical lead with little or no direction, frequently provides direction and leadership to technical teams and determines methods and procedures
Strong ability to handle significant responsibility, leadership and accountability while executing very complex assignments
Skilled in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions; someone who is capable of providing technical leadership to an organization

RequirementsMinimum Qualifications/Experience:

5+ years of proven experience managing technology projects in a large matrix organization
Minimum 3-5 years specifically managing complex technology projects and directly managing or leading engineering teams of 20+ employees
Federal IT Software Delivery experience and managing individual project budgets
Proven experience influencing and presenting to leadership
Fluency with developing and executing project schedules
Problem-solving experience in a team environment
Experience with Jira and Agile Project Management
Experience managing multiple agile teams and scrum masters
Must exhibit strong interpersonal skill, with ability to work with a variety of personality types
Proven experience working with complex and integrated technology systems; at an enterprise level with multiple integration partners
Able to successfully adapt, build relationship, and influence complex Business and Technology stakeholders
Must thrive working independently in a very fast-paced, results-oriented environment
Understanding of software testing methodologies and techniques, such as front-end functional testing, system integration testing, performance and load testing
Operational Readiness Testing experience

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years' experience, or a Master's Degree

Required Certifications:

PMP Certification Required
Agile, SAFe, and Scrum Certifications Preferred

Other:

Must be US Citizen
Willingness to be on-site in New Carrollton (Lanham), Maryland
Willingness to travel and/or telecommute on occasion depending on customer needs

Read the full job description and apply online on the recuiter's web-site

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