CW Agile Project Manager

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA's family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 12 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-IT Applications Development Manager III
Manages the research, development, integration and implementation of strategic and emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Developing a strategy for the development and deployment of new and emerging technologies for systems, applications, network infrastructure, hardware and databases.
• Reviewing and approving the acquisition of selected technologies, while monitoring the budget; facilitating communication, awareness and interaction among departments regarding new selected new technologies.
• Developing metrics to qualify and quantify criteria for success for new technologies within the business.
• Overseeing the integration of new technologies and ensuring selected technologies are consistent with business initiatives and technology architecture.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
9PL

Position Summary

Looking for a Project Manager/Scrum Master to provide guidance, direction, and coaching to the team (s) to adhere to Scaled Agile Framework principles and practice.

In this role, the Scrum Master will work with multiple teams following SAFe practices and help facilitate Sprint ceremonies (planning, stand ups, retrospectives), enabling & challenging team members regarding self-organization & commitments, resolving impediments & engaging others to resolve external blockers.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Experienced Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering high-quality projects, on-time and within budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, and leading.
• coordinating and facilitating team ceremonies and execution routines (iteration Planning, Daily standups, Backlog Refinement, showcases, demos/Reviews, and team retrospectives)
• helping to identify and manage dependencies for the team
• providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress, enabling continuous improvement within the team, and driving the work efforts to finalization, ensuring on time delivery
• Owns and guides multiple teams in a portfolio of technology-driven initiatives supporting multiple lines of business units/LOBs
• Responsible for facilitating all team level ceremonies and routines including daily meetings, Backlog Refinement, Demos/Reviews, and Retrospectives
• Manages multiple agile based teams at the enterprise level working within an ePMO
• Ensures the team has a healthy product and backlog (at minimum 3-4 sprints worth of work defined, in collaboration with the PO)
• Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the team
• Holds team (product, development, QA, other team members) accountable for delivery commitments. Helps team identify when commitments are at risk, and helps team determine possible solutions to ensure commitments are met
• Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration within the team to support value delivery and iteration
• Provides visibility into the team's delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Skills

• 3+ years of professional IT experience managing teams using techniques and methodologies such as Agile, Scrum and Kanban
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM or related certification)
• Ability to serve as SME/Coach for team members with coaching one or more teams on Scrum practices and developing own understanding of delivery and Agile delivery principles

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of Financial domain
• SAFe certified and Agile Release Train Engineer experience
• Experience with JIRA, Jira Align, Clarity

Certification

• Certified SAFe 4(.6) Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) plus demonstrable experience of SAFe
• SAFe 4(.6) Scrum Master (SSM)
• SAFe 4(.6) Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

Start Date: 19-Oct-2022

End Date: 31-Oct-2023

Travel Required: No

Potential Salary: $112.10 USD

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

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