Project Manager / Scrum Master · Consultant

Job Description

Our client, an investment management firm, is hiring a consultant to lead project and agile delivery for a technology group that supports several of its core business programs.

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Responsibilities

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• Own plans, milestones, timelines and resourcing across several initiatives running at the same time.

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• Set up sprints for multiple teams and keep each team’s tickets organized and on track.

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• Run stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, and coach teams on agile ways of working.

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• Groom and rank the backlog with product owners and business analysts, so every story has well-defined acceptance criteria.

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• Act as the first stop for new requests from business users, setting up meetings and pulling in the right people.

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• Take releases from QA and UAT through business sign-off and go-live, including cutover, readiness checks and post-launch support, alongside engineering and DevOps.

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• Track risks, dependencies and scope changes, escalate early, and give leadership clear status reports and executive presentations.

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• Map the relationships between projects, systems and processes in diagrams, and keep release notes, process flows and requirements documentation current.

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Requirements

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• 5+ years of professional experience, with recent time at a financial services firm.

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• A background in private equity, asset management or other alternatives is a strong plus.

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• Hands-on agile delivery experience: defining and running sprints and leading Scrum events.

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• Strong grasp of the software development lifecycle, with QA and UAT experience.

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• A track record of leading software go-lives in partnership with engineering or DevOps.

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• Experience running several projects at once for one team, and building project and process diagrams.

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• A business analyst background that led into project management.

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• A clear communicator and presenter who is comfortable with both executives and end users.

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• Energetic, proactive and organized.

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