Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master

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🔥 22 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $80 - $100 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

⚡️ Scrum Master + Agile Coach

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Ontrac Solutions

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

Artificial Intelligence • Consulting • B2B

Ontrac Solutions is an AI-first technology services firm that helps organizations design, implement, and scale AI-driven systems, cloud architectures, and enterprise platform integrations. They provide AI strategy and generative AI implementation (including RAG and intelligent search), cloud migration and optimization (multi-cloud architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and FinOps), data and integration engineering, CRM/CMS/e-commerce platform development, and embedded technical talent / staff augmentation to move AI from experimentation into production. With innovation hubs in Chicago and Karachi, Ontrac focuses on delivering production-ready AI and cloud solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

📋 Description

• Lead and coach Scrum teams on self-organization, cross-functionality, and goal achievement • Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective ceremonies • Identify and remove impediments hindering team progress • Coach development teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices • Foster communication and collaboration within and between Scrum teams and stakeholders • Support Product Owners with product backlog management and user-story refinement • Promote Agile adoption and continuous improvement across the organization • Track and communicate team progress, velocity, and other metrics • Mediate and resolve conflicts within Scrum teams and with external stakeholders • Contribute to scaling Agile practices across multiple teams • Provide Scrum and Agile training and guidance • Communicate with delivery-side and customer-side stakeholders at all organizational levels • Collaborate with PMO peers and leadership on status updates, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests • Lead and motivate project teams and oversee engineers and architects across infrastructure modernization, data engineering, and application development • Help the PMO Center of Excellence implement lasting organizational change • Work regularly with customers on opportunity qualification, project kickoff, progress updates, and project close

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field • SAFe experience, including certification and application across at least two or three projects • Thorough understanding of Agile principles, values, and the Scrum framework • Proven ability to facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies and manage a product backlog • Experience identifying and removing impediments • Strong coaching and mentoring skills • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills • Experience working with cross-functional teams • Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, and Smartsheet • At least three years of experience managing IT deployment projects • At least seven years of related experience in a technical, engineering, or software development environment • Experience managing a team of engineers • Strong problem-solving and analytical reasoning skills • Iron-clad organizational skills • Positive attitude toward change and ability to adapt • Love for cloud computing