Project Manager

What You’ll Be Doing

• End-to-end project management and ownership of the entire Project Management Lifecycle and its process from beginning to end.

• Management of project timelines and ensuring such are delivered on-time, on-budget, and on-scope.

• Ensure that the implemented solution is based on the Solutions Architect’s design and is aligned with the Enterprise Architecture.

• Define the project tasks, & estimates the effort and resource requirements and lay out the detailed project work plan.

• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.

• Lead weekly team sprints for the engineering organization using Agile methodologies (stories, backlogs, Kanban boards)

• Create project schedules, send meeting notes, follow up on progress of the teams to move the project forward.

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation and requirements.

• Coaches, mentors, motivates and supervises project team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Capable of leading technical discussions with engineering, product, business and ops teams while communicating timelines, and prioritization of projects in a clear and concise manner

• Facilitates learning through postmortems and sprint retrospective.

• Helps with testing the product.

• Unblock developers.

• Improve development velocity and quality.

Qualities We’re Looking For

• At least 5 years experience working as project manager in a tech company, or similar role.

• Strong project management experience in complex environments, including end-to-end project experience of customers with various service solutions in scope

• Ability to adapt to quick paced and changing priorities and manage multiple projects.

• Good understanding of software development principles and operations processes.

• Proven client facing experience, excellent communication and presentation skills Professional English Level

• Must have very strong interpersonal skills including a demonstrated ability to partner with others, and be able to manage conflicts or complex relationships

• Deep practical experience implementing Agile and Scrum.

• Practical experience using Jira for project management, reporting and team management.

• Being a Scrum Master in a previous role is preferred, but not required.

• Hands-on technical expertise and software development experience especially in mobile and fintech is highly preferred but not required.

• Past experience in the banking and financial services industry is preferred, but not required.