Associate Principal - Program & Project Management
Overview:
Before applying for this role, please read the following information about this opportunity found below. As a Scrum Master, you will guide cross-functional teams through large-scale Java modernization and Spring Boot migration efforts. You will partner with Product Owners and engineers to ensure predictable delivery, high-quality outcomes, and alignment with business goals. You’ll facilitate Agile ceremonies, remove impediments, and drive continuous improvement across distributed teams. This role offers the opportunity to shape modernization programs, influence SDLC governance, and enable successful cloud-native transitions.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives)
- Support legacy Java-to-Spring Boot migrations and microservices adoption
- Coordinate with Product Owners, PMs, architects, developers, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams
- Plan and track migration milestones ensuring sprint predictability and business alignment
- Monitor sprint progress, velocity, burndown, risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies
- Remove delivery impediments and coordinate resolution with stakeholders
- Lead technical discussions on Java modernization, API dependencies, testing, deployment, and production readiness
- Ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are well-defined and ready for development
- Support decomposition of complex migrations into epics/features/user stories
- Coordinate dependencies across multiple Agile teams in modernization programs
- Drive adherence to Agile principles, Scrum practices, SDLC controls, and governance standards
- Foster continuous improvement via retrospectives, metrics, and team feedback
- Support release planning, change management, deployment, and post-migration stabilization
- Prepare and communicate Agile delivery reports to leadership and stakeholders
- Coach teams on Agile practices, collaboration, accountability, and transparency
Key requirements:
- Strong experience as a Scrum Master for enterprise application development or modernization projects
- Good understanding of Core Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and microservices
- Experience supporting legacy Java to Spring Boot migrations
- Understanding xaygatp of REST APIs, enterprise integrations, databases, and distributed architectures
- Knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and other Agile methodologies
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps or similar tools
- Experience managing risks, blockers, dependencies, sprint metrics, and release coordination
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments
- Excellent facilitation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with US-based stakeholders and globally distributed teams
- FacilitationStakeholder management
- CommunicationCore JavaSpring Framework
- Spring Boot