Project Manager/ Business Analysis

Role Description

• Working with Product Owners and IT DevOps pod teams, to help coordinate delivery activity to ensure that Sprint & Roadmap milestone goals are achieved
• Managing project (multi team / pod) dependencies and risks
• Provision of regular Project status reporting – against shorter term Sprint commitments and longer term milestone roadmap indicative estimates
• Creation and ownership of the overall Project Plan(s). Including: Short-term Scrum planning and Forward window longer-range planning (regular refresh and tracking of critical path and roadmap)
• Oversight of JIRA updates and ensuring JIRA hygiene
• Coordinating activities across Pods (where feature deliverables involve multiple cross-pod interaction)
• Collaboration with Product Owners and BA Lead / BAs to ensure that all inputs into the delivery teams are fit-for-purpose e.g. requirements are exhaustive & signed off and work is de-constructed and translated into suitable EPICs and user & technical stories (and factor in traceable Test criteria / scenarios / data from the outset)
• Collaboration with Product Owners, BA Lead / BAs & IT Pod Leads to ensure that pods are aligned to backlog priorities and that resource capacity is managed / optimised and factored into short-term Sprint commitments and longer-term milestone roadmap indicative estimates
• Collaboration with Pod Leads to ensure that estimates are fit-for-purpose and take into account all main considerations e.g. resource capacity, dependency constraints etc
• Working with product owner & team, to ensure that quality and lead time to deploy changes is continuously improving
• Working in a vendor environment. Partnering, over-seeing and coordinating vendor activity.

**Solid knowledge and experience of the following:- **

• Development lifecycle across different methodologies
• Expertise with Waterfall, Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization
• Thorough understanding of Project management Practices
• Multiple years of Project Management experience in both Waterfall and Agile environments
• Scrum master background and/or exposure
• Experience of large projects (50+ people)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:-

• Overall experience in 15+ years which includes managing large, cross functional, multi geography projects
• Candidate should be familiar with the Offshore – Onshore model
• Should be adept at managing Risk and Issues.
• Expertise in Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean methodologies
• Vendor / 3rd party management
• Relationship management (both internal and external) and networking skills.
• Excellent 360 degree influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment with proven ability to handle multiple work threads at one time
• International experience or experience of dealing with international resources (project team and user base will be dispersed across multiple locations)
• Ability to work effectively to strict timelines and deadlines.
• Ability to work with Technology teams and business / Operations / Change