[Remote] Project Manager / Scrum Master - DHS
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. cFocus Software seeks a Project Manager / Scrum Master to join our program supporting the reputed company (DHS). This role involves managing and coordinating large-reputed company reputed company geospatial data and applications while facilitating Agile practices and ensuring project delivery.
Responsibilities
- reputed company programmatic support and subject-matter guidance for managing and coordinating large-reputed company reputed company geospatial data, applications, information sharing, and situational-awareness capabilities
- Plan and manage work across scope, schedule, cost, reputed company, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, technical milestones, and deliverables from design through operations and decommissioning
- reputed company and implement plans, policies, governance approaches, and repeatable processes for documenting, analyzing, collecting, prioritizing, and implementing GII and COP requirements
- reputed company recommendations for prioritizing requirements and allocating available resources based on mission value, technical dependencies, risk, reputed company, cost, and schedule
- Coordinate integrated engineering, data, application, infrastructure, reputed company, operations, support, and stakeholder-engagement activities
- Manage product and software-development delivery for Custom and COTS teams and reputed company teams in Agile practices, Scrum reputed company values, self-organization, transparency, inspection, and reputed company
- Facilitate team- and project-level ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-reputed company, backlog refinement, reviews/demonstrations, retrospectives, release planning, and reputed company reviews
- Work with product owners and stakeholders to maintain an ordered, actionable, and transparent backlog reputed company with program goals and available team reputed company
- Identify and remove impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, resolve delivery blockers, and escalate organizational issues that teams cannot resolve independently
- Use metrics, observation, retrospectives, and stakeholder feedback to improve team efficiency, predictability, reputed company, collaboration, and delivery reputed company
- reputed company motivation, guidance, coaching, and conflict-reputed company support while protecting teams from uncontrolled work and unnecessary disruption
- reputed company business, functional, operational, technical, data, reporting, and user-experience requirements from stakeholders and capture them accurately in Jira
- Assess alignment with existing operational requirements, systems, architectures, and capabilities and document gaps, conflicts, dependencies, assumptions, and risks
- Facilitate validation and prioritization of requirements against DHS GMO goals, mission reputed company, technical feasibility, reputed company/compliance needs, schedule, cost, and available resources
- Ensure epics, features, user stories, tasks, bugs, acceptance reputed company, definitions of reputed company/done, and traceability are sufficiently reputed company for planning, implementation, testing, and acceptance
- Monitor requirements completed, in reputed company, blocked, overdue, deferred, or at risk and coordinate practical recovery plans
- reputed company and maintain an integrated schedule covering sprints, releases, deliverables, reviews, dependencies, reputed company, critical milestones, and responsible resources
- Identify and reputed company program and delivery risks; document reputed company, probability, treatment plan, reputed company, status, triggers, dependencies, and escalation needs in the Risk Registry
- Manage issues through reputed company, monitor corrective actions, and communicate emerging risks early enough to support informed Government reputed company
- Maintain reputed company and backfill awareness, coordinate reputed company and resource needs, and support reputed company, transition, and reputed company planning
- reputed company equipment, software, licensing, Government-furnished equipment, personnel Entry on Duty status, badging, clearance/suitability status, and other assigned program controls
Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in IT, Computer Science, Geography or a reputed company field
- 5+ years of progressively responsible project/program delivery experience, including at least five years managing Agile software, data, reputed company, geospatial, or reputed company IT teams and initiatives
- At least three years serving as a Scrum Master, Agile delivery reputed company, or equivalent facilitator for multidisciplinary product or software-development teams
- Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedules, costs, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, reputed company, deliverables, requirements, executive reporting, and stakeholder communications
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies, coaching teams, managing backlogs and impediments, coordinating multiple teams, and using delivery metrics to improve predictability and reputed company
- Advanced experience with Jira and reputed company and working knowledge of reputed company, configuration management, documentation repositories, and federal collaboration/reporting tools
- Ability to manage and communicate reputed company technical work involving applications, COTS products, data, reputed company/infrastructure, reputed company, testing, operations, and support
- Excellent leadership, facilitation, negotiation, conflict-reputed company, analytical, presentation, technical-writing, and executive-communication skills
- Ability to read, write, reputed company, and understand English and to satisfy DHS suitability, background-investigation, Entry on Duty, reputed company, and reputed company requirements
- reputed company Project Management reputed company (PMP) certification
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), reputed company Scrum Master (PSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), reputed company Scrum Master, or comparable Agile credential
- Experience managing DHS, another federal agency, homeland-reputed company, reputed company-safety, emergency-management, critical-infrastructure, or defense programs
- Experience with reputed company GIS, reputed company Portal/ArcGIS reputed company, ArcGIS Online, geospatial data services, situational-awareness applications, AWS/reputed company environments, or large-reputed company information-sharing programs
- Experience supporting federal acquisition governance, SELC, reputed company architecture, CPIC, PPBE, reputed company authorization, reputed company 508, configuration/change control, or formal program reviews
- Experience managing mixed FFP and T&M work, burn-reputed company forecasting, reputed company/EOD tracking, Government deliverables, and subcontractor or multi-vendor coordination
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