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The Senior Technical Project Manager will work across the portfolio with Product Managers, functional partners and management to ensure standardised processes are established across the software development lifecycle and release management to lead the development of high-quality, high-value software products within an Agile environment.
Must haves
- Strong leadership and organisational skills.
- 5+ years of experience in Project Management.
- 3+ years of experience in technical roles.
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
- Can demonstrate command and control of meetings. Have total respect and confidence from the team at all levels and is effective at doing so.
- Can construct presentation material, and deliver it, to audiences of any level. Communicate considerately, in a mature and controlled manner (both verbally and written).
- Full accountability for release planning: management of project timelines, scope and milestones for one or more projects. Manage the complete Software Development Lifecycle.
- Ensure that the Product Team meets schedule, scope, resource/cost, and quality targets using the Agile/Scrum SDLC.
- Responsible for product release coordination.
- Responsible for Risk Management. Anticipate and manage risks, publish a product team risk register, and offer creative solutions.
- Perform Scrum Master functions: schedules and lead the release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming and daily scrum activities.
- Perform metrics-driven release tracking, Team performance, and Product Quality Reporting.
- Lead product teams in adopting Agile / Scrum methodology via training and coaching.
- Ability to build long-term client relationships.
- Experience working with remote / 3rd party team members in an Agile environment.
- Solid technical background, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience in software development, business analysis or quality assurance.
- Acute attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and quality in all deliverables.
- Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to analyse processes, identify problems and trends, develop effective solutions and strategies.
Key responsibilities
- Create a motivational, transparent, collaborative, fun, and trustful environment where teams can work efficiently and deliver high-quality products quickly.
- Model a philosophy of curiosity and trust-based relationship and conflict resolution.
- Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution and consensus among the team members and dependent teams.
- Leverage technical acumen and emotional intelligence to translate business needs and delivery capabilities across engineering and business stakeholder teams.
- Create project timelines, and manage development milestones and deliverables.
- Manage JIRA to prioritise backlog and keep sprints on track.
- Scope and prioritise activities based on business and customer impact.
- Track record of meeting deadlines consistently with multiple assignments occurring simultaneously and documenting progress.
- Prepare performance reports and report project status to stakeholders and management.
- Driving projects from conception to finished product.
