Location: 1 week in the Dublin office, 3 weeks working from home
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 11 months
Daily Rate: €500 - €560 per day
Summary:
The IT Project Manager role is aligned to product development teams and partners with product leadership to manage the delivery of team objectives and deliver the vision of the product. This role is responsible for coordinating efforts across multiple teams to deliver seamless solutions and are responsible for improving the overall effectiveness of delivery for the team. The Project Delivery Manager advises and coaches others on Delivery methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.) while simultaneously coordinating impediment, risks, cross-product interdependencies and release management.
Requirements:
- 6 – 9 years’ experience
- Considers resource trends, facts, and changing demands to make predictions regarding future capacity needs.
- Uses data to guide decision-making based on measurable insights that improve products and services.
- Identifies, tracks, and resolves dependencies between teams, product development efforts, projects, or programs to ensure efficient execution and timely delivery of target outcomes without bottlenecks or delays.
- Identify, prioritize, and resolve obstacles that hinder team progress, ensuring smooth workflow and timely delivery.
- Understands the various agile and project frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Agile, SCRUM, Lean, Six Sigma, Waterfall, Kanban, etc.) and applies the appropriate framework/methodology for the situation.
- Leverages knowledge, previous experience, and skills to identify the crux of an issue and creates a workable solution to resolve problems. Understands verbal or numerical information and how to make reasoned decisions based on this analysis.
- Reviews the quality of all factors involved in production. Investigates products to ensure that quality is maintained or improved.
- Defines and estimates work in scope for release based on target outcomes, prioritizes deliverables, aligns capacity with plan work, monitors progress against estimates, manages scope adjustments based on new insights, and ensures successful release of the product increment.
- Identifies, forecasts, and evaluates risks and navigates a way to avoid or limit their impact.
- Plans or designs the cohesive conglomeration of interrelated and interdependent parts of a system, that promotes business performance.
- Plans, implements, and manages testing strategies, policies, and practices that assure the delivery of high-quality applications.
STRATEGY
- Familiarity with product vision, target outcomes, KPIs to facilitate and support the creation of strategy development through hypothesis driven approaches
- Partner with delivery leadership (product and technology) to develop short and long-term plans for delivery teams aligned with annual and quarterly commitments
- Leads prioritization, ensure planning effectiveness, detailed plans, schedules, assignments and dependencies and leads release planning sessions utilizing relative estimation and forecasting techniques
- Identify, define and lead dependency management, inclusive of resolving
- Develop and execute risk mitigation efforts, with timely escalation as required and gathers and maintains historic delivery data trends for teams to support future delivery planning
- Organizes capacity planning utilizing historic delivery data
- Lead regular collaboration with Design Partners and ongoing backlog refinement sessions, ensures a well-refined prioritized backlog, supporting effective delivery, continuous planning and management of dependencies
- Engage appropriately for release success by coordinating and supporting releases with client-facing business leaders as they drive client awareness and product engagement.
- Lead development of the work between development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear expectations and monitor work in progress, minimize context switching to ensure teams maintain focus and finish
- Identify, measure and implement team delivery processes for predictable value delivery and support engineering quality excellence and standards applied throughout the product building lifecycle
- Manage progress for product and release plans against milestones, capacity, and delivering business value, managing expectations with proper escalation, informing key stakeholders using appropriate reporting
- Ensure product and portfolio data integrity in enterprise recommended tools, patterns and trends insights and understand and enforce Quality Standards
- Understand and enforce Incident, Change and Problem Management processes and understand and apply the foundations of data available to measure delivery effectiveness, using leading and lagging indicators for reporting
- Track, report and leverage pre-determined product, business, technical, quality and delivery KPIs to ensure delivery output is achieving business and customer outcomes and analyze historic delivery metric trends to identify opportunities, design improvement plans with delivery teams, adjust forecasted delivery timelines
- Model and promote leadership principles
- Contribute to the chapter mentoring, education and knowledge sharing on delivery practices, technical skills, and business skills / acumen
- Facilitate group dynamics to resolve conflict and develop trusted partnerships
