Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Serve as scrum master by planning, leading & facilitating scrum ceremonies with objective of delivering working & Quality software: Quarterly/Iteration planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, Scrum of Scrum and sprint review / showcase
• Create & track project plan & milestones, Identify project risks, issues, blockers & dependency in collaboration with QAs, developers/tech leads & product owner. Assist team to come up with appropriate risk mitigation and contingency plans in timely manner
• Work with Product Owner & Tech leads to ensue product roadmap & backlog is created & prioritized for effective backlog refinement & sprint planning events.
• Ensure timely release planning (with specific cadence) for various environment is (Prod & Non-prod) done & communicated transparently to stakeholders & team.
• Share & track project status/milestones/reports to provide transparency & visibility to Squad & stakeholders
• Coordinate and collaborate with stakeholders (Mumbai & Chicago office) including Program managers, Technical managers &Product Managers
• Driver & advocate of continuous gradual improvement by streamlining various practices & processes so as to help improvise overall efficiency of team
• Ensuring right practices, tools & processes are followed as per definition of done & definition of release. Ensuring definition of done is evolving & updated as and when team finds any improvements
• Train and/or educate product owner & dev team on Scrum processes/practices
• Promote & ensure Morningstar s development framework and operational best practices are followed in team
• Foster a collaborative and safe environment for all team members
• Encourage scrum team to become self-organizing & accountable
• Able to lead multiple projects simultaneously along with scrum master role for squads.

Requirement

• A bachelor s degree is required
• 8+ years of overall IT industry including project management experience
• Atleast 3 to 5 years of relevant hands on experience as a Scrum Master for delivering software using Scrum framework
• Should be a strong team player capable of building trust within the squad
• Hands on experience of facilitating story estimation exercise using tool like planning poker
• Exhibit strong project management skills
• Understanding of software development life cycle and idea of practices or tools followed by development, QA & DevOps for building quality software
• Excellent communication, time management/organization, collaboration and team building skills
• Ability to facilitate team decision-making processes and foster an environment of healthy team discussion and collaboration
• Ability to deal with ambiguity to seek clarity from stakeholders / teams
• Ability to negotiate with team / stakeholders to ensure focus on already committed goal is intact.
• Ability to drive sprint, iteration planning & program level initiative (in collaboration with various discipline) with full ownership & accountability to ensure sprint goal and quarterly committed goals of deliverables are met.

Good to Have :

• Past hands-on experience for development and/or product management responsibilities
• Experience in capital market or financial services industry

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer

Morningstar s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We ve found that we re at our best when we re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.