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Senior Project Manager, Appian
Location
Virginia
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$150K - $165K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
• Actively build positive, collaborative relationships with the client to understand the client's business priorities and bring assets and expertise aligned with the priorities.
• Provides servant leadership to the project team. Promote empowerment of the team, ensuring each team member is fully engaged, making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high-level quality.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint demos, retrospectives, sprint planning, and backlog grooming meetings.
• Work with our Director of Programs to facilitate project documentation and project deliverables.
• Act as agile coach adapting teams to agile/scrum methodology using techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver large-scale initiatives, features, and stories in an iterative fashion
• Monitor and manage team goals and performance and ensure the team understands how they align and relate to broader business goals and strategies.
• Deep-dive existing and potential problem areas, develop and communicate corrective action and mitigation plans, and drive follow-through to a successful resolution. Be hands-on when needed to help your team solve problems and get through crunch periods.
• Establish and manage product roadmap. Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Responsible for overall contract and project cost management. Ensure project remains in scope and within budget through active project budget tracking and burn-down tracking. Work closely with corporate operations and the customer to ensure total expenditures are tracked and costs are managed and communicated through proper change management.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field
- 5-8 years of project management
- Experience as a federal contractor or employee, specifically with DHS
- Experience with low-code/no-code platforms such as Appian, Salesforce, and ServiceNow.
- Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
- Ability to clarify the process, brainstorm solutions, and assist in conflict resolution
- Experience using agile performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement
- Experience adapting newly formed teams to scrum and leading their journey through the stages of storming, forming, and norming.
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other scrum techniques
- A love to learn and improve as a servant leader, always looking to bring something new and helpful to the team. Embodies the agile principles and leads by example
- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory and agile practices
- PMP certification/PRINCE2 certification (or other certifications acknowledged by organizations such as PMI or APM)
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Disability and Life Insurance
- Parental Leave
- 401K
- Paid Time Off
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