Agile Project Manager

Volkswagen Group; Libertyville (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Volkswagen Financial Services is seeking an IT Agile Project Manager to plan, lead, and motivate agile teams across multiple initiatives. The role blends traditional project management with scrum practices to deliver high-quality software and business value, coordinating with vendors and internal stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include managing the full development lifecycle, facilitating all Agile ceremonies, and ensuring adherence to SDLC standards and CSR

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile software delivery lifecycles.
• Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, and budget across multiple projects.
• Ability to coordinate with vendors and cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, organize and motivate agile project teams to deliver high-value solutions.
• Manage full technology development lifecycle within DiPD framework and SLDC standards.
• Coordinate vendor deliveries and procurement activities as needed.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure agile discipline.

Skills

Agile delivery

Project management

Scrum Master

Vendor management

Communication

Education

B.S./B.A. in CS, IT, Finance, or related

PMP Certification or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

TFS

Job description

• Vendor Delivery Management
• Facilitate sprint retrospectives

Volkswagen Financial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, is the trusted key to mobility for its brand partners. We are committed to supporting the Audi, Ducati, and Volkswagen brands and their Dealers, specializing in providing accessible mobility solutions for its Customers. The company’s offerings include Retail Leasing, Retail Financing, Commercial Financing for new and used vehicles, and End-of-Term vehicle disposition.

Role Summary

An IT Agile Project Manager (APM) is responsible for planning, leading, organizing and motivating agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering agile projects that provide exceptional business value to users. An APM may be responsible for managing several concurrent project or product development initiatives in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions and vendors. An APM may play a number of roles in actual practice, blending more traditional project management and scrum master practices to achieve high quality results.

Responsibilities within this Role

Project Management – 50%

• Management of full technology development lifecycle in a disciplined iterative project delivery model (DiPD) following applicable VCI SDLC practices, guidelines and procedures including:
• Scope management
• Schedule Management
• Budget Management
• Change Management and Impact Analysis
• Communications Management
• Risk and Issue Management
• Vendor Delivery Management
• Procurement Management (provide support to Procurement Management team to fulfill deliverables)
• Manage vendor and cross-functional team dependencies for product development and integrations to meet initiative objectives
• Maintain project and/or program tracking and work breakdown structures (Planview, MS Project, SmartSheet)
• Understand, advocate and communicate business unit objectives, goals, vision and strategy to team to enable application/technology solutions that contribute towards achieving value
• Ability to recognize and mitigate conflict and problems with project, product and team resources and apply escalation appropriately
• Environment/Project coordination (balancing multiple project delivery dates with environment constraints)
• Ensure that application processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards.
• Manage development initiatives with major vendors and service providers to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization in a socially and compliant manner.
• Support action plans where necessary to improve Business Unit satisfaction levels.
• Provide inputs to scheduled progress reporting which includes comparing forecasts to actuals (budgets, schedules, scope, etc)
• Support Resource Manager in recruiting which includes interviewing, hiring and onboarding
• Ensure all approvals are captured as required through the development lifecycle
• Coordinate application production support for defined products

Scrum Master – 50%

• Ensures a minimum a two sprints worth of user stories are ready in the team backlog
• Sprint planning and tracking
• Agile tracking tools (i.e. JIRA, TFS, )
• Manage story progression in lifecycle (wall status within a sprint)
• Burndown
• Velocity
• Capacity planning
• Release planning
• Facilitate the daily standup meetings
• Facilitate the sprint planning meetings
• Facilitate the sprint demo reviews
• Facilitate sprint retrospectives
• Accountable and responsible that the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Identify and remove impediments, prevents distractions, reduce/prevent interruptions (protect the delivery team)

Qualification requirements

Required Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in project management role managing a high performing multi-function teams of 10+ resources in application development, implementation and ongoing product support
• Responsibility of managing a $1M+ budget per project investment
• 5+ years’ experience in Scrum Master role managing multiple high performing multi-function teams of 5+ resources concurrently
• 10+ years of Software / Application Development (Multiple development methodologies)
• 5+ years of Auto Finance Experience
• 5+ years of Vendor Management Experience leading technology integrations

Required Education

• B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science or related discipline, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or equivalent job experience.
• PMP Certification or equivalent

Desired Education

• Advanced Degree a plus
• Scrum and/or SAFe Agile Certification

Required Skills

• Agile Software Delivery Lifecyle
• Traditional Software Delivery Lifecycle

Scrum Master Experience

• Sprint planning and tracking
• Facilitating daily standup meetings, demo reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning

Project Management Experience In

• Scope
• Schedule
• Budget
• Change Management and Impact Analysis
• Communications
• Risk and Issue
• Vendor Delivery
• Procurement

Desired

• Certified Scrum Master

Volkswagen Financial Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

This role description is a guideline and does not create contractual rights between the Company and any of its applicants. The Company does not enter into any type of employment contract, implied or written, with its applicants regarding job security.

This Organization participates in E-Verify. We maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.