Horizontal Talent - Minneapolis, MN

posted 2 months ago

Full-time
Minneapolis, MN

About the position

The position involves leading a data team and managing various tasks and working agreements to ensure the successful execution of projects. The individual will be responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating cross-functional teams that handle high complexity and organizational importance. This role requires coordination of development dependencies that may span multiple teams, ensuring that all project stakeholders are aligned on release scope and deliverables that support business goals. As a primary communication hub, the individual will facilitate communication between functional departments and the scrum team, proactively identifying risks and formulating plans to mitigate them. The role also includes organizing activities to ensure that sprints are completed on time, participating in the creation and management of project timelines, and removing impediments that may hinder team progress. The individual will escalate issues to stakeholders, including product teams and scrum teams, as necessary. In addition to overseeing team performance and setting expectations, the individual will work closely with resource managers to address any performance issues. Building and nurturing business relationships that are vital to project success is also a key responsibility. The role includes coordinating and facilitating sprint planning, task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal, and tracking, as well as conducting sprint reviews and retrospectives. The individual will drive the development of release and sprint roadmaps and assist product owners with backlog creation and grooming of user stories. Promoting Agile and Scrum best practices across the organization is essential, along with reporting the status of teams to an executive audience. A general understanding of application programming, database, and system design is beneficial, as is proven experience in managing large, complex web application development.

Responsibilities

  • Leads the data team's tasks and manages team working agreements.
  • Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates one or more cross-functional items of high complexity, organizational importance, and visibility.
  • Coordinates development dependencies that may span multiple development teams.
  • Works with project stakeholders to define release scope and deliverables in support of business goals.
  • Acts as a primary communication hub between functional departments and the scrum team to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
  • Participates in creating and managing project timelines as per the project schedule so that timelines are met.
  • Removes impediments for the teams and escalates the need for resolution of impediments to stakeholders such as product teams and scrum teams, as needed.
  • Coordinates and oversees performance of resources and sets expectations accordingly; works with resource manager to address performance issues, as appropriate.
  • Develops and grows business relationships vital to the success of the project.
  • Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and task definition, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
  • Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
  • Assists product owners with backlog creation and grooming of stories (user flow journeys).
  • Promotes Agile and Scrum best practices across the organization.
  • Reports status of teams to executive audience.
  • Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in any business/technical discipline or equivalent experience required.
  • Associate Degree and 8 years of directly relevant work experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of directly relevant work experience.
  • Master's Degree and 6 years of directly relevant work experience.

Nice-to-haves

  • Proven experience managing large, complex web application development is preferred.
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