Senior Scrum Master

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Location: Sydney

The Project Manager is responsible for building and supporting the big data platform. As a Project Manager - Data, your responsibilities include –

Lead project teams in delivering solutions according to project charter or client project contracts for Data initiatives
Manage project plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements including internal staff, client employees and third-party vendors
Project performance responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule and contractual deliverables
Become a bridge between key client business stakeholders and Agile development team
Manage value delivered by Agile development team and ensuring alignment with overall service strategy of the client
Understand the client’s Divisional and Group objectives and strategies and manage the product’s business and technology stakeholders.
Balance the trade-off between quality, benefits, risk, budget, time to market and user experience and effectively communicate it to key project stakeholders
Clearly define the product and requirements with client business stakeholders and development teams by translating requirement and writing epics, features and stories
Maintain the Non-functional Requirements (NFRs), to help ensure that the solution meets relevant standards and other system quality requirements
Provide support to the team and work closely with the Scrum Master to remove team impediments & lead by example
Mentor junior consultants in the practice and delivery engagements

To ensure success in the role you will possess the following skills –

Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a project manager, iteration manager or scrum master in IT Consulting or other technology business units across the industry
Minimum of 3+ years of project management experience in data initiatives such as data modernisation, migration, governance, reporting, analytics and data science
Diverse practical experience in project delivery frameworks such as Scaled Agile, Distributed Agile, Agile Sprints, Kanban, Waterfall etc
Skills include Project Planning, Budgeting, Performance Management, Scheduling, Staffing, PM Methods, Performance Management, Scope Management, Contractual Deliverables, Change Control and Risk Management
Solid Understanding of various data professional roles and responsibilities
Understanding of concepts of business-critical design, services sensitive to performance SLAs with high availability, fault-tolerance, automatic fail-over and geographical redundancy
Experience delivering projects based on Cloud Platform such as Azure, AWS, GCP and IBM and other modern data platforms
Understanding of containerisation, virtualisation, infrastructure and networking
Understanding of software development life cycle and methodologies
Experience in presenting to and influencing stakeholders and senior managers
Team leadership and people manager experience
Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related Engineering courses
One or more industry-recognised technology or project delivery certifications or badges

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