Job Description

The Role The Agile Project Manager primarily manages medium-to-high complexity projects from initiation to delivery. The Project Manager will join a community of Agile Project Managers and will be asked to contribute to and deliver on the goals and objectives of the HBNA Technology Team via the Project Management Organization team. In this role, you will be asked to help teams succeed by continuously gathering and providing as much contextually relevant information as possible and surfacing issues to key stakeholders. You will act as a liaison between the business, requirements analysis, design, development, quality assurance, and release management resources on the HBNA Technology Team. You will be a constant presence for all stakeholders across the project(s) you manage. Focus on what drives them toward success, and what challenges them in meeting their objectives. You will use this information to collaborate with teammates to ensure a healthy project that delivers quality software.

• You are deeply passionate about collaborating with others to help optimize a team’s performance and build strong leaders.
• You are a leader, and sometimes a coach in the Agile Project Management process, and believe that collaborative communication truly gets the most out of a cross-functional team.
• You put others at ease by forging meaningful and productive relationships with those around you, and you have an infectious “get it done” mentality.
• You are an excellent communicator, and believe that communication is at the root of most organizational success.
• You are energetic and positive, and you take pride in your ability to bring structure to inherently complex working environments.
• You naturally share lessons learned and best practices with others, build relationships with stakeholders and broker relationships at all levels.

• Works with other projects team members to develop release management strategies (e.g., planning, testing, dependency and organizational readiness) that address the risks and issues resulting from the complexities of scaling agile
• Works with project team members to ensure that the project aligns with both business priorities as well as team capacity
• Works with project team members to ensure that the team is continuously learning and improving though action items surfaced by teams throughout sprint or in retrospective
• Promotes a culture where project teams are empowered to drive development and innovate guided by stakeholders’ expectation

• Builds and supports a culture of trust and transparency guided by meaningful metrics
• Fosters a culture where risks and issues are managed at the lowest responsible level
• Fosters collaboration of project teams in a scaled environment to work towards a common goal
• Ensures that projects team function in a safe environment and are protected from any unnecessary distractions

• Understands project requirements and needs of users enough to guide thought provoking discussions and create a solid relationship within the team and with business stakeholders
• Ensures that product health is well defined and shared in a transparent way with all critical stakeholders
• Surfaces action needed. issues and risks and mitigates with a sense of transparency and urgency
• Proactively manages stakeholders’ expectations and is visible to stakeholders across the different functions
• Works with other project members to develop strategies that address the risks and issues to high value “Done” Product Increments and promote sustainable development and release

• Surfaces and manages project level issues and risks if project roadmap does not align with business value proposition or team capacity
• Assists in ensuring that development effort is billed appropriately to maximize spend that can be capitalized
• Manages project release plan and ensure that it’s updated throughout the release cycle as more data becomes available
• Works with the project team to ensure work is transparent and easily tracked through ADO (or other tools used to manage status)
• Ensures that all project reporting is available to and actively used by teams (e.g., feature report, burndown, risk log, etc.)

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Project Manager focused on software development (strong preference for Agile-Scrum SDLC experience).
• Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes.
• Track record of delivering strong results in large scale/complex software development projects.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals, including project metrics and dashboards.
• Hands-on management of projects and their outcomes, rather than passively collecting and reporting metrics.
• Strong ability to identify potential issues and dependencies early.
• Quickly facilitates mitigation plans, alternative approaches and communication of risks.
• Fully committed to transparency in all situations.
• Highly organized with excellent multi-tasking skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Analytical thinker with creative problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work with teams within multiple geographic locations to meet demanding deliverables.
• Requires advanced project or program management skills including work breakdown, risk monitoring and mitigation, scope management, and status reporting to management.
• Agile Methodology experience.
• Preference for Agile certifications (scrum master or or agile practitioner).
• Self-starter attitude and ability to build a strong rapport and trust with resources in several functional areas.
• Adeptness at learning new technology and tools.
• Detail oriented with excellent communication skills.
• BS/BA degree or relevant experience.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops.
• Experience working with Microsoft technology stack (preference for also having SAS or any other Analytical Tool).

• Communication skills at all levels
• Collaboration & Facilitation
• Attention to detail
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Negotiation skills
• Assertive, adaptable, and creative
• Analytic ability