IT Project Manager (Agile)

Allied Reliability

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in IT project management with a focus on Agile methodologies and principles.
  • Strong background in Lean Agile practices, facilitation, and coaching.
  • Knowledgeable in ETRM systems and previous engagement in the financial services or energy sector.
  • Hands-on experience with data warehousing and data migration projects, particularly involving cloud technologies.
  • Familiarity with tools like Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Delta Sharing is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Coach cross-functional teams to embrace and optimize Agile practices.
  • Facilitate Team of Teams events such as retrospectives and story mapping workshops.
  • Raise visibility of impediments and dependencies at the Team of Teams level.
  • Support Agile project management processes by generating key performance reports.
  • Maintain a focus on Lean/Kanban metrics and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure alignment between team strategies and execution plans with leadership.
  • Create a safe and engaging environment for team collaboration and learning.

Benefits

  • Near real-time access to curated datasets for better reporting.
  • Enhanced visibility of global profits and exposures through robust data repositories.
  • Support for Agile community practices that encourage ongoing learning within the organization.
Full Job Description
Allied Reliability is seeking an IT Project Manager in Houston, TX to mentor teams as they transition to an Agile approach and new ways of working.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Embody an agnostic agile mindset, experimental approach, apply the right mix of support and challenge that empower teams to continuously improve. Coach cross-functional teams on optimising Agile ways of working, identifying waste, improving feedback loops. Contribute to our Agile Community of Practice (CoP) re: Lean-Agile principles and practices. A coach embedded with a cross functional team of product owners, project management, UX design, engineering managers and other internal stakeholders to facilitate outcomes of discovery and definition phases. Facilitate key Team of Teams events, retrospectives and workshops, e.g. Story mapping, value stream mapping, Scrum of Scrums, Product Alignment. Ensure synchronisation between Team of Teams and Team-level agile cadence. Maintain a focus on Lean/Kanban metrics, leading and lagging indicators. Raise visibility of Team of Team level impediments, risks and dependencies. Support/generate Agile project management reports (e.g. generate Jira queries, planned vs. earned value reports). Ensure psychological safety and an engaging space for team collaboration, learning and agility maturity assessments to bring about continuous and measurable improvements. Work closely with the platform vertical lead to ensure alignment between strategy and execution. Coach other team members, review team dynamics, health.

Mandatory skills:
Skilled in Lean Agile practices, facilitation, teaching, coaching. Knowledge of mentoring, transformation and business productization, ideation, design, development, testing, CI/CD, DevOps. Ability to understand and properly utilize market standard tools used in the Agile space.

Domain Knowledge:
Trading in financial services and/or energy trading
Knowledge of ETRMs (Energy Trading Risk Management) systems required
Prior experience in Data Warehousing and Data Migration required
Technology experience to include Databricks, Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing
Optional skills:
Scrum Master certifications (CSM, PSM I, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)
Portfolio: Shell IDT/Downstream & Renewables IDT/Trading & Supply/TS - Crude & Products/TS - Products/TS - Products Investments
Program: Products Data Exchange
Project: Legacy Datawarehouse Migration PDW
Description: Products Data Exchange is a one-stop shop for Products data

Data and Technical Foundations ('building blocks') to expand current analytic and digital capabilities and more broadly enable data science and artificial intelligence capabilities on cloud technology.

Central Data Repository is crucial for the PDS Vision 2030 -

Products Data Exchange (PDX) is a centralized data repository of harmonized NA and WONA data.
Business case: Achieving cloud modernization is imperative to alleviate speed and agility challenges faced with the current on-premise data landscapes and to increase technical capabilities necessary to deliver outcomes of the PDS 2030 Vision.

Benefits Inc:
Global Reporting: One of the driving benefits is the ability to enable a consistent and cleansed view of global P&L and Exposure.
Near Real-Time Access: PDE provides near real-time access to curated datasets to enable more global intra-day reportin

Business Applications: Endur Products, DEX
Project Type: IT Project
Project Class: App major enhancement| Project Planning & Tracking, Project Governance, Project Assurance & Compliance
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