Technical Project Manager - Pleasanton, CA - Initial Remote - Full

Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, we have a requirement for Technical Project Manager - Pleasanton, CA - Initial Remote - Full Time, please find the requirement below.

Position: Technical Project Manager

Location: Pleasanton, CA

Duration: Full Time

Responsibilities:

The Technical Project Manager (TPM) is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile scrum teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in the delivery of outputs that provide exceptional value to end-users and customers.

The TPM may be responsible for managing several concurrent high visibility initiatives using agile methods in a fast-paced environment that may involve multiple business units.

Facilitate key ceremonies of Agile Scrum Framework from start to end such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Play a consultative role to help put in process, and tools supporting the Agile framework and coaching members of the team as needed to optimize the efficiency.

Act as a Servant Leader in establishing project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach to provide the right balance of business agility.

Work with Product Owner/Product Manager to drive and facilitate decomposition of Epic Roadmaps into Product Backlog Items (PBIs) and ready it to handoff into team-level backlogs.

Drive Quality and ensure the Definition of Done (DOD) is being followed; ensures each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful contribution.

Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.

Facilitate getting the work done by practicing servant leadership and encourage discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Assist in team development through holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work, and leveraging cross-functional team skills to improve product backlog throughput.

Become a bridge between DevOps, QA, Engineering and Product Management Teams

Closely work with all stakeholders and Efficiently Manage release rollouts.

Implement agile governance with key ceremonies, drives continuous improvement with constant assessments of velocity (team story point throughput), defect percentage improvements, etc.

Assist with the team estimation/sizing exercise for both near-term and future initiatives.

Create reports like burn-up & burn-down charts, sprints velocity, etc. to track project progress in real-time.

Assess problems/risks and develop mitigation plans to avoid impact to the project.

Skills:

8+ years of experience in Agile Project management and Agile Development approach.

Proven leadership and project delivery experience with global teams for a large organization with the ability to manage cross-functional teams

Hands-on leader with strong people skills.

Well-versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g., MS OFFICE, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

Ability to effectively communicate specialist information in an understandable format to all stakeholders.

Excellent communication skills, focusing on core scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.

Willingness to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or related field

Desired Certifications (any of the following):

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)