In-plant Solutions Team Lead

BRIEF:
The IT Project Manager ll manages both traditional waterfall and agile scrum projects in support of corporate objectives. This includes all aspects of medium to large projects, from initiation to release. For waterfall projects, they will define scope, facilitate meetings, obtain resources and budget, develop project schedules, identify risks and develop mitigation plans, monitor and report performance, support implementation and transition deliverables to operational support. For Agile Scrum projects, they will organize and coach teams, groom backlogs with Product Owners, facilitate ceremonies (stand ups, demo’s, retrospectives), track and publish information radiators on sprints, remove impediments for the team, and coordinate releases. This person will be a key player in helping the organization transition to an Agile methodology.

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:
General
- Works directly with the business and IT teams to implement solutions to satisfy various business challenges and objectives.
- In-depth knowledge of the different methodologies and processes for managing projects and of common software development lifecycles, i.e., Waterfall, Agile.
- Works with functional owners to assign appropriate resources. Manages resources against estimates, skills and resource availability.
- Leads and manages multiple project teams and facilitates effective teamwork among them.
- Responsible for communication of project status to all stake holders on a regular basis, including the project team as well as to management.
- Authors internal communications.
- Assists in the development of presentations to executive audiences
- Offers a non-SME perspective and challenges the status quo to drive higher quality decision making.
- Ensures milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout project lifecycle.
- Builds strong relationships with stakeholders, sponsors, users, and program owners.
- Takes responsibility for successful product delivery.
- Leads implementation and integration of cloud-based, Anything as a Service (XaaS) solutions.
- Facilitates build vs. buy analysis and software selection processes.
- Manages system integration projects.
- Manages proof of concept projects for new technologies.
- Acts as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor and change agent. Participates in change management process.
- Manages project staff both onsite and remotely.
- Maintains confidentiality of necessary information.
- Participates in development of new and existing EPMO methods and procedures.
- Maintains and follows all MSC and EPMO standards.
- Fosters the MSC Culture in the department and throughout the company to ensure fulfillment of MSC’s vision and unity of purpose.
- Participation in special projects and performs additional duties as required
- Waterfall
- Manages scope of work, recognizes changes in scope and works to control scope creep.
- Develops project plans including timelines and resource allocation and drives team to adhere to plan.
- Facilitates brainstorming and confirms that proposed solutions align with expectations.
- Works with team to obtain accurate estimates to proposed solutions.
- Ensures all established schedule, cost and quality objectives are met.
- Transitions project to operational steady state and functional ownership.
- If applicable, responsible for budget and invoice tracking.
- Manages the triple constraints of scope, budget and resources.
- Accountable for identifying, quantifying and tracking project risks, and facilitate the development of risk mitigation plans.
- Identifies and manages interdependencies among projects and programs.
- Responsible for developing, maintaining and obtaining approvals of project documents such as the Charter, Project Plan, Change Request and Lessons Learned, etc.
- Provides hands-on project implementation assistance including troubleshooting and resolving process problems.
- Drives quality control on all implementations while meeting customer expectations.
- Advocates for the project sponsor, representing their goals and exerting a positive influence on the team.
- Scrum
- Guides, coaches and motivates the team with the goal of increasing productivity.
- Facilitates daily stand-up meetings, demo’s and retrospectives to ensure efficient execution of the team’s activities.
- Facilitates the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team.
- Removes impediments for the scrum team, develop solutions and monitors project progress.
- Facilitates decision-making processes to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
- Helps product owner to build the product backlogs, groom them and prioritize them for the next sprint.
- Coaches Product Owner and stakeholders in writing proper user stories.
- Organizes and facilitate the sprint planning meeting.
- Acts as a safeguard for the team.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or other re