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. Run stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, and coach teams on agile ways of working. 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. Track risks, dependencies and scope changes, escalate early, and give leadership clear status reports and executive presentations. Map the relationships between projects, systems and processes in diagrams, and keep release notes, process flows and requirements documentation current.
5+ years of professional experience, with recent time at a financial services firm.
A background in private equity, asset management or other alternatives is a strong plus.
Hands-on agile delivery experience: defining and running sprints and leading Scrum events.
Strong grasp of the software development lifecycle, with QA and UAT experience.
A track record of leading software go-lives in partnership with engineering or DevOps.
Experience running several projects at once for one team, and building project and process diagrams.
A business analyst background that led into project management.
Project Manager / Scrum Master - Consultant in new york at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.