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Project Manager/ Senior Scrum Master, Project Manager/ Senior Scrum Master 6 months (open to extension) - fully remote Who are we? We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team. We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™. What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent. Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about About this role This role is to provide a project management wrapper to run the Architecture team, treating it as a “Product” prioritizing workload to maximize value, managing risks and communications to stakeholders It will also provide project management skills to some specific data projects/activities where PM support is needed with a wider stakeholder community About You You should have excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, with all its artifacts and techniques. You’ll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mindset on deliverables. If you’re a strong communicator, a capable leader and you're invested in Agile frameworks, we’d like to meet you Responsibilities Manage a backlog of EA Data demand with the team (through Jira) Ensure alignment of backlog with business priorities (through product owner) Run the “agile process” for the team as the scrum master (daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint demo’s, sprint retrospectives) Run the “front door” of work for the team and show any priority calls that are needed Manage a risk register for the team Provide support to specific data projects/activities where PM support is needed with a wider stakeholder community Create quarterly/monthly/sprint reports for stakeholders Coach team where appropriate Requirements: Deliver Focus: Outcome and results-driven mindset Business Stakeholder Partnering: Ability to communicate with both technical architects and senior business stakeholders Collaboration: Ability to bring together a team/activities in alignment with a shared vision of success. Leadership: Creation of a vision – purpose/success/failure Engineering: Ability to understand and work with engineering-level data teams Communications: Converse and present to GM-level stakeholders. Create reports/presentations that are fit for the purpose of the audience Intervention: Ability to identify risks, issues, and dependencies and intervene where necessary Experience Required Project Management experience in both waterfall and agile approaches Proficient in Jira Track record of successful delivery of outcomes Professional Project Management Certification Delivery in a matrix organization Experience working on data-related projects – understand the basic concepts Desirable: Cloud transformation projects delivery experience About us Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favorable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation. By submitting your application you give us permission to store and use the information from your CV and your answers to application questions. Apply For This Job