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Position: Technical PM

Location: Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid 3x a week on-site)

Job Description:

A Financial Services Technology client is seeking a TPM/Scrum Master to join its CTO organization. Responsibilities of this TPM including facilitating Agile events that help the Engineering team deliver value incrementally and iteratively, supporting the Program Increment (PI) execution through facilitating team level events and partners with the Release Train Engineer and pushing forward team PI objectives, supporting Product Owners through backlog refinement, backlog readiness, definition of ready/done and support writing user stories, and supporting coordination across Team of Teams (Agile Release Train (ART)/Release Train Engineer (RTE)). They will also monitor and provide visibility around gaps, impediments, risks, and dependencies while fostering practices for identifying, tracking, discussing and resolving cross-team dependencies within the team, taking ownership of a dependency in some circumstances.

Additionally, they will manage and organize delivery effectiveness metrics to track progress and improvement over time. Collaborating with integrated teams to deliver solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product managers, architects, developers, and QA teams. They will help ensure an environment of continuous improvement through honest communication and regular retrospectives with the goal to surface issues/concerns and to identify clear action steps. Other important tasks include tracking status, progress and other critical metrics in relation to the plan and publishing progress reports to senior partners, maintaining release and dependency plans across development teams, external partners and third parties, identifying and raising risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives, and resolving impediments precluding teams from making progress against plans. They must ensure deliverables across Technology teams are high-quality and clearly documented and have strong experience supporting financial planning documentation and budgeting.

Required Skills and Experience:

• University Degree or equivalent experience in related field and/or prior relevant
• Technology or business experience
• Strong experience as Agile Champion, Scrum Master, Technical Project Manager or related
• Strong experience with Jira and Rally
• Strong experience with financial planning, project tracking and budgeting
• Strong experience leading scaled (SAFe) Agile ceremonies
• Strong understanding of full development lifecycles and terminology, i.e. blue-green and green-blue deployments, ramping up traffic in production, etc.
• Proven technical experience in software engineering, infrastructure, operations or product delivery & system integration is preferred
• Organizational skills and self-motivation
• Knowledge of internal delivery tools & a desire to deepen understanding Adaptive communication
• Collaboration & partnership Courage, curiosity, passion & resourcefulness and ability to influence and gain alignment at all levels of the organization including senior leadership

Nice To Have:

• SAFe Agilist certification
• Strong facilitation and communication skills. Industry and Company Knowledge Shows skill in Agile/Lean/SAFe Principles and
• Frameworks quality and testing best practices.

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