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Technical Project Manager

St. Louis, Missouri
Technical Project Managers chief responsibility is to manage the development sprints effectively and efficiently from planning to execution to review in an agile development environment. Your role will include mentoring your groups (interfacing with clients, running of daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets) and unblocking barriers to keep the teams moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the senior management, clients and development teams. 
 
The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing company where you’ll have the opportunity guide the development of your Teams.
 

Responsibilities/Oversite: 
             Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
             Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
             Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
             Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
              Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
              Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
             Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
              Able to do postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
              Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
             Implement and support principles, rules and processes
             Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
              Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution
             Presents high level project readouts for senior management and clients
             Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
             Manage other special projects as assigned
             Other duties as needed
                 
 
 Skills and Qualifications
             BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
             Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
             Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
             Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
             Expert coach on implementation of agile
             Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
             Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
             Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
             Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
              Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
             Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
             Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email 
             Self-motivated, organized

 
The Timberline Group
Phone: 636-209-5537
623 Missouri Ave #104, Sullivan, Mo 63080
"Delivering quality solutions through quality people"

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