Full Job Description
Responsibilities
• Drive the successful delivery of technology projects by proactively managing risks and minimizing variance, ensuring alignment with project goals from initiation through closure
• Define and document project deliverables and timelines, holding all stakeholders accountable for their specific responsibilities
• Develop, maintain, and report on the squad progress throughout the SDLC and/or project plan, ensuring coverage of all technical tasks and achievement of agreed milestones
• Actively lead scrum teams, manage sprints and agile cadences, while overseeing the end-to-end project schedule and delivering key milestones
• Participate in working groups and steering committees to ensure risks and issues are escalated promptly through appropriate channels, driving effective decision-making
• Manage project execution through risk and issue management, project monitoring, tracking reporting, workflow management, quality assurance, change and communication management
• Strong management of cross-stream internal and external project dependencies
• Understanding of technical deliverables and effectively align them to business objectives
• Review functional specs, solution design, and user stories to ensure business and technical requirements are mapped, dependencies identified and a clear critical path established, enabling effective planning and delivery
Capabilities
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
• Expert understanding of project management including scheduling, resource capacity planning, risk mitigation strategies, and stakeholder management
• Solid knowledge of project risk management frameworks
Qualifications
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or certifications within Project Management, Agile, and/or IT
• Project management experience of 7+ years delivering complex, enterprise-grade digital applications/solutions
• Knowledge of solution architecture for digital solutions
• Experience delivering software projects with budgets of $3M+
• Experience presenting to senior executive stakeholders (mandatory) including exposure to C-suite (preferred)
• Experience delivering technical projects across multiple streams of work
• Experience with software project management across all phases of the SDLC, delivering multiple projects from inception to completion
• Experience within Agile and waterfall software delivery
• Previous experience as a technical business analyst, product owner, or developer (preferred)
$120,000 - $120,000 a year