Equifax Careers Remote – Technical Project Manager

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Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

The right candidate must possess the ability to respond to a fast paced, rapidly changing dynamic environment, have excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills and the ability to resolve conflicts constructively with a positive attitude, energy and enthusiasm. As a Scrum Master/ Agile Project Manager, you will lead key initiatives to deliver project objectives for medium to large sized agile projects and be responsible for coaching and assisting key business users (product owners) with backlog creation, grooming and prioritization. As part of the Equifax Global Consumer Systems team, you will mentor teams and ensure the correct use of the scrum process.

What you’ll do

• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles and SCRUM Best Practices
• Facilitate Quarterly Planning, Daily standups, Iteration/Sprint planning, mid sprint reviews, Iteration/Sprint demos and retrospective meetings for multiple teams
• Identify, own and remove impediments for the team on a daily basis. Reach out to the organization network to remove impediments before they become blockers
• Responsible for identifying sprint and project risks and offering any potential mitigation strategies
• Track metrics of team progress, productivity and use the metrics to help the team get better
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to facilitate release management across teams to coordinate release scheduling
• Provide all support to the team using servant leadership and leading by example
• Understand technical nature of the issues to be able to help resolve the impediments
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the team and coaching the team for higher levels of maturity
• Serve as a coach while empowering team self-organization and self-management
• Cultivate robust and sustainable working relationships between business and technology teams to foster a cross-functional team environment
• Promote and evangelize Agile across the organization and coach individual team members and teams to prepare more change agents
• Make recommendations for continuous improvement to enhance effectiveness and play active role in organization agile transformation

Required Experience

• 5+ years of IT project management experience.
• 5+ years of experience as Scrum Master in coaching/leading teams.
• Experience utilizing Jira.
• Management of teams in a cross-functional structure.
• Experience with Lean and Kanban process improvements.
• Experience utilizing tools including Confluence, Aha, and Smartsheets.
• Experience working on transformational projects.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to drive accountability and agile adoption.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to negotiate with the stakeholders and coach the teams.

Need Your Abilities

• Scrum Master Certification, PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner, or SAFe Practitioner.
• Experience working with offshore teams.
• Experience in software engineering, product owner or QA functions.
• Experience in Looker and Data Analysis
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree.

We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, 401k matching, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Equifax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.