Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlanIT Group, LLC is a recruiting and staffing company presenting a role for a confidential client. The Project Manager - SCRUM Master will oversee ongoing projects, coordinate between the Development Team and Product Owner/Product Manager, manage Jira and reporting analytics, and lead Scrum ceremonies while improving productivity and transparency.
Responsibilities
- Designing, configuring, and maintaining Jira Structures to surface real‐time performance metrics
- Building and automating sophisticated Excel reports using visuals such as pivot tables for resource utilization, risk registers, and variance analysis
- Analyzing extensive Jira and IMS data to produce concise, data‐rich status reports, forecasts, and executive summaries that translate technical metrics into strategic business recommendations
- Developing automated monitoring mechanisms, to flag schedule slippage, resource constraints, and quality deviations for timely intervention
- Leading daily stand‐ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives while coaching the team on Scrum principles
- Continuously identifying opportunities to streamline Scrum and reporting processes using analytics, thereby increasing productivity and transparency
Skills
- Experience as a Scrum Master overseeing and managing ongoing projects
- Ability to serve as a liaison between the Development Team and Product Owner/Product Manager
- Experience designing, configuring, and maintaining Jira Structures
- Ability to build and automate sophisticated Excel reports using visuals such as pivot tables
- Experience in resource utilization, risk registers, and variance analysis
- Ability to analyze extensive Jira and IMS data to produce concise, data-rich status reports
- Experience in forecasting and creating executive summaries that translate technical metrics into strategic business recommendations
- Ability to develop automated monitoring mechanisms to flag schedule slippage, resource constraints, and quality deviations
- Experience leading daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Ability to coach the team on Scrum principles
- Experience identifying opportunities to streamline Scrum and reporting processes using analytics
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