Responsibilities:
- Function as an agile project or program manager with overall responsibility for the successful planning, tracking and execution of multiple, simultaneous, large complex programs, projects, or program iterations with a high-risk profile.
- Facilitate the delivery of customer-centric outcomes through the sustained use of consistent methods, people-focused engagement, and the systematic reduction in non-value-added work.
- Establish positive, collaborative relationships with customers in order to meet their goals and objectives.
- Lead internal customers and teams in the development and maintenance of project, program, or program iteration artifacts, such as scope, approach, solution, plan, resources, and estimates for strategic, on-premises or cloud-based IT application development or infrastructure projects.
- Define a program or project’s schedule and scope focused on the timely and systematic delivery of outcomes for the customer.
- Develop, track and manage project forecasts and costs; request budget allocation and reallocations; ensure the project and/or program is within budget; manage and control changes to scope.
- Act as the program or project’s entrepreneurial advocate, ensuring communication transparency, optimizing the risk profile and enhancing the benefit realization for the customer.
- Manage resource plans, facilitate team meetings, publish meeting notes and action items, ensure follow up with team members, update project documents and systems, ensure timely completion of action items; facilitate post-project/phase reviews.
- Drive the program and project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality, holding teams accountable for their work, fully engaged in the program or project, and removing roadblocks.
- Adhere, and contribute to, the unabated optimization of the project and program management standards, processes, and governance, including tools and reporting.
- Develop and execute organizational change management plans to ensure the seamless adoption of new systems and processes.
- Mentor, train and coach less experienced team members on standards, processes, and tools.
- Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG’s respectful and courteous work environment
Qualifications:
- Minimum eight years of recent experience managing IT enterprise projects that are high-risk strategic, transformational, on-premises or cloud-based, involving IT application development and infrastructure.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
- Scrum or SAFe Agile certification and PMP or Prince 2 Certification; experience as an agile coach preferred
- Participate in and facilitate post program and project reviews to cultivate a learning organization.
- Project management experience that includes full lifecycle software development using industry best practices and methodologies, including agile, hybrid and waterfall.
- Experience as a ScrumMaster, leading Agile ceremonies, facilitating scrum teams, measuring team velocity, reporting on team progress, and removing impediments for assigned team(s) as well as coordinating a Sprint backlog in conjunction with Product Owner and team members preferred.
- Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority.
- Must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork.
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Pay Rate Range
70 - 100 USD hourly
