Project Program Management Advisor

Job Description

Req ID: 186858 NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.We are currently seeking a Project Program Management Advisor to join our team in Bangalore, Karn taka (IN-KA), India (IN). A Scrum Master is responsible for planning, leading, organizing and motivating agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering agile projects that provide exceptional business value to users. Be responsible for managing several concurrent project or product development initiatives in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions and vendors. Play several roles in actual practice, blending more traditional project management and scrum master practices to achieve high quality results. Role Responsibilities: Management of full technology development lifecycle in a disciplined iterative project delivery model guidelines and procedures including:
• • Scope management
  • Schedule Management
  • Budget Management
  • Change Management and Impact Analysis
  • Communications Management
  • Risk and Issue Management
  • Vendor Delivery Management
  • Procurement Management (provide support to Procurement Management team to fulfil deliverables)
• Sprint planning and tracking
  • Agile tracking tools (i.e. JIRA)
  • Manage story progression in lifecycle (wall status within a sprint)
  • Burndown
  • Velocity
  • Capacity planning
  • Release planning
• Facilitate the daily stand-up meetings
• Facilitate the sprint planning meetings
• Facilitate the sprint demo reviews
• Facilitate sprint retrospectives
• Accountable and responsible that the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions, reduce/prevent interruptions (protect the delivery team)
• Manage cross-functional team dependencies for product development and integrations to meet initiative objectives
• Understand, advocate and communicate business unit objectives, goals, vision and strategy to team to enable application/technology solutions that contribute towards achieving value
• Ability to recognize and mitigate conflict and problems with project, product and team resources and apply escalation appropriately
• Environment/Project coordination (balancing multiple project delivery dates with environment constraints)
• Ensure that application processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards.
• Support action plans where necessary to improve Business Unit satisfaction levels.
• Provide inputs to scheduled progress reporting which includes comparing forecasts to actuals (budgets, schedules, scope, etc)
• Ensure all approvals are captured as required through the development lifecycle
Experience: Required
• Scrum master certification from a recognized certification body
• 10+ years experience in project management role managing a high performing multi-function teams of 10+ resources in application development, implementation and ongoing product support
• 5+ years experience in Scrum Master role managing multiple high performing multi-function teams of 5+ resources concurrently
• 10+ years of Software / Application Development /Infrastructure Management
Education: Required
• B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or related discipline, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or equivalent job experience.
• Scrum and/or SAFe Agile Certification
Specialized Skills: Required
• Agile Software Delivery Lifecyle
• Traditional Software Delivery Lifecycle
• Scrum Master experience:
  • Sprint planning and tracking
  • Facilitating daily standup meetings, demo reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning
• Project Management experience in:
  • Scope
  • Schedule
  • Budget
  • Change Management and Impact Analysis
  • Communications
  • Risk and Issue
  • Vendor Delivery
  • Procurement
About NTT DATA Services NTT DATA Services is a global business and IT services provider specializing in digital, cloud and automation across a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, applications, infrastructure and business process services. We are part of the NTT family of companies, a partner to 85 % of the Fortune 100. NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team. Job Segment: Manager, Consulting, Program Manager, Cloud, Computer Science, Management, Technology ,

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