Senior IT Project Manager - Release Train

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning.
- Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment.
- Assist Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments.
- Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site Reliability Engineering teams.
- Define the program dashboards to manage and report the status on product implementations.
- Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities.

- Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Plan and execute all activities related to program increment planning.

- Work with Service Delivery Managers and Product Managers to ensure strategy and execution alignment.

- Assist Service Director with managing risks, escalating, and tracking impediments.

- Work with Scrum Masters to define and drive consistent practices across the Site.

- Reliability Engineering teams.

- Define the program dashboards to manage and report the status on project implementations.

- Assist Service Delivery Managers with tracking the execution of features and capabilities.

- Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.

- Facilitate scrum activities and meetings (daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives) between the Scrum Team and Product Owner(s).

- Lead one or more agile development efforts within the organization.

- Document areas of improvement and action items coming out of the sprint retrospectives.

- Work with Product Owner(s) to keep the backlog(s) groomed.

- Maintain and report on relevant sprint metrics.

- Administer and maintain the accuracy of the scrum board.

- Ensure quality standards for all deliverables and promote continuous process improvement.

- Act as a liaison between Development Teams and Product Management, ensuring that appropriate project process is made.

- Identify and resolve obstacles that may hinder the team from meeting project milestones/deadlines.

- May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

- Prepares for and facilitates release planning with teams.

- Assists in dependency management and cross team coordination.

Agile Ceremony Facilitation

- Facilitates continuous improvement and the development of a learning culture on teams.

- Facilitates ceremonies, collaboration, communication, and conflict management.

- Teaches new team members Agile mindset and frameworks, practices, and process.

- Influences the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.

- Mentors Product Owners and team members in agile practices and continuous improvement.

Delivery Team Support

- Removes impediments to the team's ability to perform.

- Acts as a buffer between external distractions to minim...