Project Manager cum Scrum Master

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 220,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services.

Key Responsibilities:

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Lead the engineering team in achieving PI deliverables/objectives while improving the team’s long-term performance by encouraging continuous improvement in ways of working.

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Facilitate Agile events that help engineering deliver value incrementally and iteratively.

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Drive the engineering team's deliverables throughout the Program Increment (PI) through coaching and facilitating team level events.

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Enhance technology solutioning conversations while documenting progress and deliverables.

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Provide positive impact to the delivery lifecycle process: removing obstacles to delivery, coordination of development activities across multiple scrum teams, and implementing standard processes for Agile methodologies.

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Facilitate the creation of implementation roadmaps with support from product and engineering leadership.

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Coach Product Owners through backlog refinement, backlog readiness, definition of ready/done, writing user stories, and cultivating continuous delivery of business value to end users.

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Proactively identify and maintain transparency into impediments, risks, and dependencies.

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Influencing without authority through effective change and leadership management.

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Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo.

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Facilitate conversations / solutioning between cross platform teams where there may be dependencies or linkages.

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Championing constant learning to drive improvements and standardization.

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Inspiring collaboration and quality practices between system architects, Agile teams, and product teams.

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Troubleshoot issues and surface up impediments with delivery.

Qualifications:

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Preferably a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline.

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Additional certifications are preferred- PMI-ACP, PMP, CSM, SSM etc.

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6+ years of Software Project Management experience.

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Previous software engineering experience is a plus.

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Ability to drive projects end-to-end, work with a diverse set of teams.

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Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing teams.

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Ability to deliver sophisticated software iteratively and with quality to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively.

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Deep understanding of Agile at Scale or iterative development processes, including quality and testing standard practices.

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Excellent oral and written skills needed to efficiently communicate across product, technology, and business partners.

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Experience using Jira delivery management platform is required.