Agile Project Manager (contract)

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This role is responsible to 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.

  • *Responsibilities:**
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.

Be 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.

  • *Qualifications:**
Minimum of 8 years of 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.

Prefer experience as an agile coach.

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.

KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) seeks a contractor in the United States to provide service to KPMG through one of our contracted employer/agency service providers. All applicants for any KPMG role are expected to act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold the firm’s respectful and courteous work environment. All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

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