Job Title: Senior Technology Project Manager / Scrum Master
Location: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Birmingham, AL, Columbia, SC
Type: Permanent Full Time
Responsibilities - Lead a defined workstream within a larger enterprise technology program, coordinating project planning and execution across the software development lifecycle.
- Manage schedules, requirements, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and delivery metrics.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Prepare executive status reports and support timely issue resolution.
- Coordinate user onboarding activities, including communications, training, access, readiness, production support, and adoption.
- Communicate with technical teams, especially regarding data engineering, SQL, data pipelines, and Python, to support a financial modeling system.
Requirements - 5+ years managing technology projects and 7+ years of progressive IT experience.
- Strong experience with project planning, schedule management, delivery governance, risks, issues, dependencies, and executive reporting.
- Experience coordinating SDLC activities, including requirements, development, testing, release readiness, deployment, and production transition.
- Scrum Master experience facilitating sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and impediment removal.
- Proficiency with Jira for managing backlogs, stories, defects, dependencies, risks, sprint progress, and delivery metrics.
- Experience using Confluence for project documentation, requirements, decisions, meeting notes, and release communications.
- Strong requirements management, traceability, documentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience coordinating user onboarding, training, access, readiness, support, and adoption.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel for analysis, reconciliation, tracking, project controls, and reporting.
- Familiarity with data engineering concepts, SQL, data pipelines, and Python.
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage projects of comparable scope and complexity.
- Financial services experience, particularly with financial modeling systems, is highly desirable.
- Educational Requirements: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
- PMP and Scrum Master certification are preferred.
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