PM/Scrum Master

Elign Consulting is hiring a PM/Scrum Master in Minneapolis, MN.

Job Description:

Looking for a PM/Scrum Master with insurance/financial services experience, ideally investment experience.

Opportunity to be a part of a ground floor up initiative of a new investment systems implementation.

This resource will be working on waterfall and agile projects.

Essential Functions:

• Deliver projects that meet business requirements on time and within budget.
• Create and maintain project plan; identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones tasks; collect and report on progress to plan against individual project tasks as well as against the overall project.
• Support Agile projects (Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning, Demo’s, Retrospectives, backlog/burnup charts)
• Create a communication plan that includes both internal and external project communication documents, meetings, and reporting requirements.
• Work with functional managers to assure complete and appropriate resourcing.
• Assign and monitor work of project team members, providing support and direction.
• Perform project plan analysis to identify critical path and resource issues.
• Manage the project from initiation through delivery and closure.
• Create a communication plan that includes both internal and external project communication, meetings, and reporting requirements.
• Interface with project stakeholders to manage expectations.
• Manage issues and risks from identification to resolution.
• Manage project documentation including project documents (i.e. scope, requirements, design) status reports, meeting minutes, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Manage the project budget.
• Consult with management on an ongoing basis to maintain strategic link to business needs.
• Assure compliance with company project management policies and standards.

Knowledge, Skill & Competency Requirements:

• Must have experience managing AGILE Scrum Teams
• Demonstrated communication and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies and tools.
• Knowledge and understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Highly skilled in the use of Microsoft Project Server
• Experience in formal techniques of risk management
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Experience with Scrum tools (Jira, Polarian, etc)
• Experience working closely with business teams
• Experience in change management

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required
• PMP certification or other formal project management training required.
• Must have at least give years project management experience.

With a passion for enabling and empowering consultants and companies to evolve for the better, Elign is a certified Women and Minority owned business that strives to help people bring their business values and goals to fruition.

Job Type: Contract

Required experience:

• Scrum Master: 1 year

Required education:

• High school

Required licenses or certifications:

• PMP
• CSM