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CVS Health is looking for a strong individual contributor that will be responsible for managing a Scrum Team and the End-to-End delivery for our Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio of products including voice and chat bots.
Please take into consideration when screening candidates, we're looking for an IT Project Manager / Scrum Master who has experience managing to date driven aggressive timelines and experience managing teams / projects facing multiple risks and issues.
Start Date: As soon as possible
Duration of the engagement: 6+ months
Preferred location: On-Shore/United States; Remote; working hours Eastern Standard Time required
Rate Card Role: Agile Scrum Master
Key Responsibilities:
Delivery Timeline/Milestone Management
Ensure Timelines/Milestones that are committed to during (PI & Iteration) Planning ceremonies are conveyed to the delivery team(s). Track progress throughout the delivery of the Feature(s)/User Story(ies) with input from the delivery team(s).
Update Stakeholder Status Report and verbalize a summary during Agile Release Train sync meeting.
Risk Mitigation
Identifies and works with team to remove project impediments and blockers that stand in the way of team productivity and performance to maintain the team's commitments to Delivery Timelines/Milestones.
Create entries in the Risk and Issues Tracker for any issues/risks observed that cannot be mitigated by the team within 24 hrs. This includes capturing daily updates in the Risk and Issues Tracker.
Escalate to the RTE all impediments for awareness, including a description of the impediment, impact assessment and mitigation plan.
Dependency Management
Work with delivery team to identify all dependencies (within the delivery team and outside of the delivery team), obtain commitment and track delivery status.
Team Capacity Management
Monitor (Rally) daily to ensure resources are at full capacity. If not, mitigating those that are under/overcapacity and ensuring team members are updating Rally each day.
Proactively reviews Rally and mitigates observations in future sprints such as resources are over or under capacity.
Agile Ceremony Facilitation
Facilitates and publish meeting minutes the team ceremonies following Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) principles and practices.
Ensures the team is fully prepared for each Release including completing all documentation required for a release and successfully obtains signoff from the internal audit prior to the release and facilitates the Production Release ceremony.
Required Qualifications:
10+ years of experience including IT Project Management
Technical aptitude to support program's use of work management and collaboration tools.
Strong analytical, oral and written communication, presentation skills.
Strong servant leadership skills, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, mentoring, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
Experience with large scale software development environment.
Advanced understanding of resource allocations, forecasting, and budgeting.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience as a scrum team member other than being the project manager and/or scrum master
Experience applying Agile best practices, i.e., burn-down charts, retrospective formats, defect management, user stories, ATDD, TDD, CI/CD, automated testing, etc.
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or other Agile approaches: i.e., XP, Kanban, FDD, etc.
Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as RTC, JIRA, CA Rally, Confluence/SharePoint, etc.
Ability to demonstrate coaching techniques and approach.
Required Skills : Scrum Master
Additional Skills : Project Manager
Background Check :Yes
