Technical Program & Project Management Specialist
FastTek Global · Michigan, United States · 2 wk ago
Project ManagementFull-time
About the role
Serve as Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager for BOBM IT initiatives, driving delivery across SAP, integration, production support, and business workstreams. Lead end-to-end IT project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure for complex SAP and BOBM application initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner with product owners, business leads, technical teams, and vendors to prioritize backlogs, define sprint goals, and remove delivery impediments.
- Track sprint progress, release readiness, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items using tools such as JIRA, SAP Cloud ALM (CALM), and ServiceNow.
- Promote Agile best practices, continuous improvement, transparency, and accountability across cross-functional teams.
- Develop and maintain project plans, integrated timelines, milestone trackers, dependency maps, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
- Manage scope, schedule, budget awareness, risks, issues, decisions, and change impacts across business and technical stakeholders.
- Coordinate with BOBM, Accenture, SAP, and third-party vendors to ensure timely delivery of commitments and resolution of blockers.
- Ensure project documentation, meeting notes, action items, approvals, and governance artifacts are accurate, current, and audit-ready.
- Prepare leadership reporting, status updates, burndown metrics, RAID logs, and delivery dashboards for stakeholders.
- Coordinate delivery across HR, Finance, MDM, Purchasing, Supply Chain Collaboration, Warehouse, and other SAP-integrated business functions.
- Partner with functional and technical teams to align requirements, integration dependencies, testing needs, deployment readiness, and cutover activities.
- Translate business needs into clear delivery plans, user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable team tasks where appropriate.
- Facilitate cross-team communication to ensure alignment between business priorities, technical constraints, and operational readiness.
- Coordinate testing activities including SIT, UAT, defect triage, retesting, sign-offs, and release readiness checkpoints.
- Support change management activities including training coordination, stakeholder communications, job aids, and deployment support materials.
- Ensure impacted users and support teams are prepared for process, system, and operational changes before go-live.
- Work closely with BOBM stakeholders, Accenture, SAP, and third-party vendors to drive alignment, issue resolution, and successful delivery outcomes.
- Identify delivery risks early, escalate appropriately, and drive mitigation plans to protect timeline, scope, and business readiness.
- Continuously improve Agile processes, project governance practices, communication routines, and delivery execution across teams.
Requirements
- 6 years of experience in IT.
- 3 years of experience in Program Management.
- Expertise in Project Management.
- Bachelor's Degree.
Skills
- Required: Project Manager, Scrum (Software Development), Agile Software Development.
- Preferred: SAP Experience.
Benefits
- Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program).
- Vision.
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Program.
- Long Term Disability (100% paid).
- Life Insurance (100% paid).
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match.
- Lucrative employee referral program.
- Employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press from 2013 to 2023.