Highlights
The ideal candidate is a servant leader who facilitates collaboration, removes impediments, manages dependencies, and supports continuous improvement while maintaining project scope, schedules, budgets, and applicable GxP requirements. Apply Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate; manage project governance and financials in Clarity PPM and track backlogs and delivery progress in Jira or Azure DevOps while adhering to applicable GxP processes.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mettawa, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $80–$85 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://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. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.
Job Title: Senior Agile Project Manager Data & Analytics
Location: Mettawa, Lake County, IL 60045
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Role Overview
- Agile Project Manager's responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of Artificial/ Business Intelligence, data warehouse, data analytics, and integration projects.
- This role partners with globally distributed, cross-functional teams, product owners, business stakeholders, and external vendors to deliver business value using Scrum, Kanban, and fit-for-purpose Agile practices.
- The ideal candidate is a servant leader who facilitates collaboration, removes impediments, manages dependencies, and supports continuous improvement while maintaining project scope, schedules, budgets, and applicable GxP requirements.
Requirements
- Coordinate cross-functional teams of business analysts, developers, testers, and data specialists to deliver data and integration projects in a matrix organization.
- Define project charters, scope, delivery roadmaps, release plans, and RACI matrices; partner with product owners to align priorities, delivery milestones, and business outcomes.
- Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives; support clear sprint goals and actionable improvement commitments.
- Coordinate delivery across the SDLC, including Planning, Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, Testing, UAT, Deployment, and Hypercare Support; ensure release readiness and required documentation.
- Apply Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate; manage project governance and financials in Clarity PPM and track backlogs and delivery progress in Jira or Azure DevOps while adhering to applicable GxP processes.
- Identify and manage project risks, issues, impediments, and cross-team dependencies; maintain budgets, forecasts, and monthly financial reporting, escalating decisions promptly.
- Provide weekly stakeholder updates on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and financials; use metrics such as sprint goal achievement, cycle time, throughput, and release predictability to support delivery decisions and continuous improvement.
- Manage interrelated project activities within agreed scope, schedule, and budget; assess changing priorities with product owners and stakeholders and communicate their impact on delivery commitments.
- Support self-managing teams in planning and coordinating work; remove impediments, facilitate access to technical experts, and foster collaboration, accountability, and sustainable delivery practices.
- Facilitate feasibility assessments and collaborative effort, schedule, and cost estimation; support release planning and transparent communication of assumptions and constraints.
- Partner with IT leadership, product owners, business managers, and business analysts to clarify business needs, refine prioritized backlogs, and establish acceptance criteria and a shared Definition of Done.
- Coordinate with IT and Operations teams on production readiness, operational handoffs, and urgent issues; incorporate lessons learned into subsequent delivery cycles.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of IT project delivery experience, including 5+ years leading Agile projects or serving as an Agile Project Manager or Scrum Master.
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
- Practical experience applying Scrum and Kanban, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and supporting backlog refinement, sprint planning, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to foster collaboration, transparent communication, and a servant-leadership approach across globally distributed teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to communicate delivery trade-offs clearly.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, dependencies, risks, and issues in a matrix organization.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to remove impediments, resolve conflicts, and use delivery metrics to guide improvement.
- Hands-on experience with Jira or Azure DevOps and familiarity with Clarity PPM, MS Project, or Smartsheet; proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Experience delivering Business Intelligence, data warehouse, data analytics, or integration projects is preferred.
- Pharmaceutical industry experience and familiarity with GxP delivery, validation, and documentation requirements are preferred, not required.
- Prior Client experience is an advantage. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI-ACP, or PMP certification is preferred.
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.