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Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a Scrum Lead/Project Manager with a major corporation in Bristol, CT. On-site 3-4 days per week in Bristol.

Duration: 19 month(s)
Pay Rate: $75 - $83/hr DOE

There is a need for Scrum Lead / Project Manager whose role will primarily be facilitating and supporting Title Origination domain Agile scrum teams & enabling the delivery of high value product increments to our users.

• This team prepares the titles, registers them and all versions of them for content delivery
• Very Highly preferred having Digital Supply Chain experience as this team works with content Ops.
• Should have Jira/Confluence, team works with Airtables, Smartsheets, Google box, Microsoft suite - having background in all this helps with picking up tools.
• Scrum lead focused role but having concepts of PM will be beneficial

Description:
The Scrum Lead / Project Manager will be an integral part of the Content Platforms Global Program Management team. DE&E Tech creates products, platforms, and innovations for the The Company by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DE&E Tech helps The Company optimize technology, platforms, and resources, while bringing creative ideas to life and creating industry-shaping approaches.

This is a contractor position within the DE&E Tech Global Program Management Organization. The Scrum Lead / Project Manager will work with Product and various Engineering teams to facilitate and support Agile ceremonies and coach scrum teams on Agile best practices and principles to enable the delivery of high value product increments to our users.

Successful candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on concurrent implementations across matrixed teams both inside and outside the Entertainment & Technology (DE&E Tech) department. They must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, issues, and processes to a variety of business, creative, and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with other project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate work, deliverables, and schedules.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos.
• Provide support using a servant-leadership style, facilitate discussions and decision making in meetings, and resolve team impediments at multiple levels of an organization.
• Coach teams in their journey to Agile, support their self-organization and agile methodology knowledge growth.
• Use tools and techniques to support the team in shipping high quality software increments such as User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing and Burndown charts.
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program progress and quality and know how to leverage those metrics to identify program needs.
• Communicate delivery times and scope to other software engineering teams that depend on a timely delivery.
• Manage projects that impact the scrum team, including developing project plans and timelines for projects and project deliverables.
• Holds functional managers accountable for their teams' deliverables.
• Identifies and manages issues and risks and drives decision making.
• Communicates team and project status and schedule updates

Basic Qualifications:
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in technical program management and software application development.
• Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Lead for cross-functional agile teams.
• Experience as a Technical Project Manager a plus.
• Working knowledge of Jira/Confluence supporting agile methodologies.
• Experience with the software development life cycle.
• Desire to learn and take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.
• Anticipate working with teams on East or West Coast hours, with flexibility to work outside of regular office hours to accommodate important meetings in different time zones.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Technical knowledge of architecture and development practices.
• Advanced knowledge of tools including Atlassian Suite (JIRA/Confluence), Airtable and or Smartsheets.
• Established experience with digital supply chain systems that support content operation functions (e.g., title origination, title management, metadata management).

Required Education:
BS