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Project Manager III

TekWissen LLC

  • Lansing, MI
  • 2 days ago
  • $81.22

Highlights

Job Title: Project Manager III Location: Lansing, MI, 48933 Duration: 12 Months Job Type: Hybrid Work Type: Temporary Assignment Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00 PM Job Description: The scrum master position will work as a contract resource for the Client - Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) supporting the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). Project with duties including coaching the team on scrum practices, facilitating scrum ceremonies, removing impediments to progress, protecting the team from external distractions, and fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the team and organization.

Numbers & Facts

LocationLansing, MI
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$81.22
Company Size100 to 499 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Title: Project Manager III
Location: Lansing, MI, 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00 PM
Job Description:
  • The scrum master position will work as a contract resource for the Client - Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) supporting the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).
  • The resource will act as the scrum master for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Accounts Receivable and Collections (MDHHS ARC)
  • Project with duties including coaching the team on scrum practices, facilitating scrum ceremonies, removing impediments to progress, protecting the team from external distractions, and fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the team and organization
Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years of experience serving as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.
  • Proven experience supporting complex, enterprise-level financial or debt management software solutions.
  • Advanced knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile methodologies (SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or similar).
  • Strong understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), secure application development lifecycle (SADLC), and modern DevOps practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to guide teams in implementing Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and delivery forecasting.
  • Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
  • Strong ability to remove impediments, negotiate dependencies, and collaborate across cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, product, architecture, compliance, and operations).
  • Hands-on experience using Azure DevOps Agile lifecycle management tools.
  • Proven ability to coach Product Owners in backlog refinement, story decomposition, estimation, and value prioritization.
  • Experience supporting teams working with integration-heavy, API-driven, or data-centric systems.
  • Strong understanding of regulatory, privacy, and security considerations in financial services software (e.g., PCI, SOC, FFIEC, CFPB-related requirements).
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to lead multiple Agile teams or a large, scaled program context.
  • Experience working in fast-paced, cloud-first environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
Preferred Qualifications
  • SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), CSM, PSM I/II, ICP-ACC, or equivalent certification.
  • Experience working with debt collection/servicing systems, payment processing workflows, or financial case management platforms.
  • Understanding of user-centered design, accessibility standards, and customer journey mapping.
  • Experience supporting Quality Assurance processes including regression, user acceptance testing (UAT), and post-deployment validation.
  • Ability to facilitate technical discussions, backlog elaboration sessions, and dependency alignment across multiple teams.
  • Experience contributing to or establishing Centers of Excellence (Agile CoE) or process governance programs.
Key Competencies
  • Strong servant leadership mindset with a focus on empowering teams.
  • Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to drive transparency, predictability, and continuous delivery.
  • Comfortable facilitating executive-level reporting, burn-up metrics, dashboards, and KPI updates.
  • Ability to maintain a positive, motivating influence within high-pressure or sensitive delivery timelines.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



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