Project Manager - Software Development

Project Manager - Software Development

A leading telecommunications carrier is looking for a Project Manager-Software Development to work on critical projects in their current pipeline.

Alongside your first class traditional project management skills, you'll have significant experience of working with agile software delivery teams, and be an expert in Agile delivery techniques and lean product development methods.

The Project Manager-Software Development will:

• Act as a Scrum Master for a delivery team, by; facilitating meetings and ceremonies (workshops, retrospectives, showcases and inceptions), removing blockers, managing WIP, fostering continuous improvement and keeping the team highly motivated.
• Ensure that project metrics - Burn Up, Cumulative Flow etc - are collected and reported consistently.
• Assist in building a coherent Idea to Release pipeline - optimizing the process so that development teams are fully utilized and idea definition and discovery is complete prior to the beginning of development.
• Assist with project validation by identifying/evaluating/resolving areas of risk and devising mitigation strategies.
• Identify and resolve issues with dependencies and conflicting requirements, ensuring that intra-team delivery is optimized.

The Project Manager-Software Development will have

• Experience of working successfully within software delivery, as part of agile teams and are well versed in various Agile delivery and lean product development methodologies.
• Experience acting as a servant leader for a delivery team, ideally as a Scrum Master with a recent certification, or a similar role.
• Years of experience working within collaborative environments supporting product owners, QA analysts, developers and the business, throughout the product development life cycle.
• Spent many years leading and facilitating inceptions, retrospectives and workshops for delivery teams as well as stakeholders in the business.
• A keen attention to detail, are passionate about quality, love collaboration and have a problem-solving mind-set.

If you are a Project Manager-Software Development looking for a new challwenge then get in touch NOW!

ITHR Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. ITHR Group is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.