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What's the role?

• Ensure agile/scrum, program/project management best practices are created, deployed and optimized to drive delivery excellence.
• Lead a team of scrum masters and project managers to support Technical Initiatives, Upgrades, Re-platforms, Cloud migrations and Decommissioning efforts across a variety of traditional and modern platforms.
• Manage communications & status reporting across the full portfolio of programs and projects and apply the appropriate reporting techniques depending on the type of work
• Educate and implement an agile mindset across teams, programs and projects
• Challenge, partner with and align stakeholder leadership on strategy, business priorities and approach to ensure effective and efficient delivery based on agreed timelines
• Understand and evangelize key risks and issues to bring 100% transparency for initiatives in progress
• Drive continuous process enhancements/improvements that ensure efficiency and improve outcomes

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience in Infrastructure across both modern “start-ups” and traditional “enterprise” firms
• 3 years of experience with Agile, Scrum and Kanban practices
• Educated, Master’s degree preferred, minimum BA/BSc degree, with continuous education on Program Management, Methodologies
• Technically strong individually, ideally someone with a background in Engineering
• Solid functional knowledge, PMO program/project management, strategy, business development, product development and operations
• Experience leading with an agile mindset exhibiting customer/client orientation
• Exceptional cross-functional, stakeholder management and communication and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization in a collaborative team environment across multiple business units and complex environments
• Strong ability to lead a high-performing team of scrum masters, project managers
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities for others and roll up sleeves to provide a consultative approach while creating successful outcomes
• Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively and use critical thinking to drive results
• Broad industry-wide experience in successfully building and transforming a technical scrum project/program management organization
• Technical experience in multiple technology disciplines

To continue to grow your career, apply now!

Hiring Manager: Sathish K Gururajan
Position Recruiter: Gregory A Stewart
Location: 100 E Wisconsin Ave, Ste 2300, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee, 53202, United States (US)
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Education Experience: Master's Desired
Employment Experience: 9+ years
Licenses/Certifications:
FLSA Status: Exempt