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Job Title: Project Manager/Scrum Master
Location: Roseland, NJ (Hybrid Onsite 3x per week)
Contract Length: 6 Months W2 Contract
Rate: $65/hr W2
Sr. Tech Project Manager
You will be working as an Agile Project Manager/ Scrum Master, partnering with a Product Owner to prioritize, plan, and deliver software implementation projects for NextGenTime and Scheduling applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• In collaboration with project teams, create and maintain project plans and schedules including deliverables across all impacted areas of assigned projects
• Provide oversight and leadership during project execution to ensure alignment with project deadlines
• Take ownership for the project process, project deliverables and communication frameworks including administration of project collaboration tools and document repositories
• Provide SDLC process expertise and work directly with the project sponsors and key stakeholders on the applicable deliverables
• Track and report project progress to stakeholders and senior management
• Prepare status reports and facilitate project status meetings as defined in the SDLC
• Identify risks in conjunction with the project team and stakeholders
• Work with the project team and stakeholders (based on the risk) to define mitigation plans and ensure plans are tracked and status of the risks are reviewed on a regular basis
• Facilitate impact analysis and estimation of project deliverables across functional disciplines
• Partner with Client Groups such as Product Mgmt and Senior Business and IT leadership to define and maintain product or portfolio based roadmaps that are broken down into executable projects/stories
• Sponsor IT initiated projects for inclusion in the project portfolio
Requirements:
-experience Sprint planning
- experience with java development teams in an AWS environment overseeing deployments and implementations
-experience leading Scrum of Scrums
- experience identifying and aligning dependencies
- experience setting up, configuring & maintaining Jira
***Prior ADP or Time Management/Payroll Solutions experience is a huge plus (ADP, Ceridian, Gusto, UKG, Kronos, Ultimate, Workday, SAP, Paychex)
***PMI-ACP cert is a huge plus (this is preferred over PMP because it more agile aligned)
Salary : $65
