Location: Richmond, VA Minimum Requirement: To perform these duties, the necessary technical background is typically acquired through a bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems or in any other closely related field. Description Primary Skill: Project Manager II/Scrum Master Exp Work with project sponsor, stakeholders, and resource managers to ensure project scope, budget, and schedules are meeting expected outcomes. Estimate project costs and manage the budget. Facilitate Work Breakdown Structure development and create detailed schedule. Communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders. Identify, prioritize, and mitigate project risks. Manage project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved with formal project change requests. Demonstrate strong IT management skills including financial and change management as well as effectively facilitating project meetings. Leverage all existing PM and SDLC processes. Track and report on project milestones and provide status reports to sponsor and team. Perform team management, driving motivation, collaboration and performance. Manage at risk project priorities (timeline, budget, scope, communications to key stakeholders, etc.). Report directly to the Manager of the IT Project Management Office. Support and educate the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Guide the team's operations by facilitating ceremonies (e.g., daily standup, sprint planning) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure smooth functioning of the delivery team. Facilitate internal and external communications (e.g., task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency management). Remove impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Break down complex business requirements into technical documents and analyze testing effort. Coach Agile techniques such as ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games to the teams. Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.