Project/Program Manager IT at Aditi Consulting in Chicago, IL

Job description

• Payrate: $60.00 - $61.00/hr.
• This role serves as a hybrid Project Manager and Scrum Master supporting delivery teams across the Dealer ERP transformation program.
• The individual will facilitate Agile ceremonies, drive work decomposition, backlog refinement and prioritization in Azure DevOps, manage dependencies and milestones, coordinate stakeholder communications, and help ensure delivery commitments are met.
• The role is critical to maintaining alignment across teams, improving delivery predictability, and providing transparency into program progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Enable delivery across complex, enterprise-scale workstreams including release planning, readiness, coordination, and execution activities.
• Your contribution will include driving transparency through dashboards, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, and supporting continuous improvement to deliver high-quality ERP capabilities on time and within scope.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and technical teams to decompose and prioritize work in Azure DevOps, ensuring a healthy, execution-ready backlog aligned to delivery commitments.
• Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies are clearly defined and understood.
• Remove impediments, resolve blockers, and escalate risks and issues as needed.
• Coordinate execution across multiple teams and workstreams to drive alignment and delivery predictability.
• Facilitate cross-team dependency identification, management, and resolution.
• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, and release planning activities.
• Manage and track project milestones, delivery commitments, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate release readiness activities, deployment planning, and execution support across teams.
• Develop and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards, metrics, and reporting to provide visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Prepare and communicate delivery status, milestones, risks, and key decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and effective communication across business, product, engineering, and vendor teams.
• Drive adherence to Agile standards, delivery best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure successful delivery of ERP capabilities.

Requirements

• No degree, they must have 8+ years exp as a PM/ Scrum master exp 5 year exp
• Degree ( preferred), they must have 5+ years exp as PM/ Scrum master exp 3+ year.
• Azure DevOps expertise, including backlog management, work item decomposition, sprint planning, tracking, dashboards, and reporting
• Strong Agile and Scrum knowledge with experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching teams. SAFe experience a plus.
• Project and program management experience, including milestone tracking, dependency management, RAID management, and stakeholder communications
• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and managing delivery against commitments
• Technical understanding of the software product development lifecycle and digital product delivery practices
• Proficiency with Microsoft collaboration tools, including Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
• Miro experience (nice to have)
• Excellent communication
• Strong facilitation and meeting leadership skills
• Relationship building and stakeholder management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Servant leadership mindset
• Conflict resolution and negotiation
• Organizational and prioritization skills
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Ability to build alignment and gain buy-in
• Results oriented and outcome driven

Skills

Preferred

• SAFe experience
• Miro experience

Benefits

• Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $60.00 - $61.00 /hr. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law.
• Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages.
• Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus.
• Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.