Agile Project Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Agile Project Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll join SCE’s Digital & Business Transformation team within the Information Technology department and help drive innovation. You will spearhead new Artificial Intelligence (AI) product development across multiple agile teams, fostering disruptive innovation through user-centered design and advanced technologies. You will quickly assess team dynamics and guide them from inception to deployment, establishing goals and strategic plans to drive success. Working closely with Product Owners, Developers, Designers, Business Customers, and IT Stakeholders, you will help navigate undefined processes, influence agile transformation, and seamlessly adapt within a fast-paced environment. Thriving in ambiguity, you will embrace flexibility while taking on challenges head-on, including stepping into Product Owner/Manager roles or other agile leadership positions as needed.

As an Agile Project Manager, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

- Manages the activities of one or more moderate to large, short to mid-term projects with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods and outcomes

- Exercises considerable latitude and judgement in developing plans, budgets, and resources, directing activities and actions, and determining deliverable

- Decides appropriate methods, procedures for new projects with significant independence

- Engages with all levels of management and acts as a key consultant for both functional and business issues

- Manages complex user story decomposition, dependency mapping, and backlog prioritization

- Analyzes velocity trends, quality metrics, and team capacity to forecast release plans

- Drives process improvements by analyzing sprint metrics and refining ceremonies, workflows, documentation, and tools

- Implements Agile software development practices including test-driven development (TDD), pair programming, continuous integration, and refactoring

- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

- Seven or more years of experience in IT project management.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems

- Experience managing and de-risking timelines, milestones, deliverables and budgets

- Three or more years of experience in technical/ engineering and/or business- related role

- Three or more years of experience performing as a Scrum Master in a waterfall and/or agile environment

- Experience leading multiple product/project teams in Mobile, AI/ML, or emerging technologies like Smart Wearables

- Experience interacting regularly with senior management

- Established project/product objectives with product manager

- Scrum master and/or PMP certification

- Hands-on experience with agile technologies and tools – Jira/Rally/HP ALM Octane/Confluence/Aha/DevOps

- Experience applying Design-thinking principles

- Experience developing business plans, objectives and initiatives for the organization

Additional Information

- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

- Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.