IT Agile Project Manager
Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
IT Agile Project Manager
Miejsce pracy: Wroclaw
Nr Ref.: VR-26734
Responsibilites
- Assume day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that the project scheduled is adhered.
- Establish milestones and monitors project progress and raises potential issues to project stakeholders
- Organize and facilitate release and sprint scoping, scrum of scrums, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
- Enables close cooperation across all roles and project teams (IT/Business), moving the team towards self-organization.
- Identify and Remove impediments and/or guiding the team to remove impediments.
- Support team and stakeholders to provide transparency on Sprint progress through JIRA Dashboards.
- Manages team capacity and volatility and provides the estimation of it to stakeholders for release scoping
- Communicates timeline and monitors progress of integration/UAT/regression testing by stakeholders to ensure they meet their timelines and escalates in case it's not happening
- Escalates ad hoc request on changes in the requirements in case they do not fit in planned release timelines
- Encourage clear understanding of client objectives and priorities and the alignment of IT deliveries against these requirements within the project team
- Plan, coordinate and ensure the timely and on-budget delivery of all necessary software deliverables
- Management of project risks, issues, and dependencies as well as and stakeholder and business client management
- Progress tracking of tasks and milestones within the projects and dependencies external to the projects
- Day-to-day hands-on management of one or more projects
- Deal with unplanned situations, implement responses, and propose changes to minimize impact
- Management of change requests within the projects
- Participation in project review boards and project lifecycle quality reviews
- Proactively reach out to clients and partners to build trusted advisor relationship and achieve business
- Facilitate communication between a number of teams including Business Change Management, Analysts, Designers and Development Managers
- Status Reporting
- Coordinate IT status reporting (Working Group level) for all involved stakeholders
- Influence and align status reporting activities across multiple groups including IT, Change and Line.
- Maintenance of RAID (Risks, Issues, Assumptions, Dependencies) and Action Logs
- Identification and management of risks and issues
- Definition of response strategies and mitigation actions
- Financials & Budgets
- Manage budget/forecast/actuals across the work streams using standard portfolio and project management tools
- Ensure consistent reporting of budgets/actuals/forecasts
- Maintain traceability & change control around budgets
- Quality Management
- Adherence of CS solution delivery policies and quality guidelines within standard solution delivery framework
- Communication:
- Maintenance of weekly/monthly project status materials and management "decks"
- Maintenance and tracking of budget figures in our project and portfolio management tool
- Regular communication with global development teams
Requirements
Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
- Detailed understanding of software delivery project lifecycles (SDLC)
- Experience in Agile delivery methodologies
- Proven track record of managing large IT projects - budget, scope, quality & risks with globally distributed teams
- Strong content leader and problem solver (Project Leader mindset)
- Experience of communicating directly with and influencing senior stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Proficient with MS Office; excellent MS Project skills required as well as with JIRA
- Teamwork & good Communication skills.
- High degree of flexibility and "can do" attitude.
Desirable:
- University degree education ideally with focus on computer science or project management
- In depth knowledge of Microsoft Project
- Project Management certification is a plus (PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, etc)
- Full life cycle experience, using a structured development methodology
- Knowledge of project management tools & systems
- Financial Product knowledge
- Able to operate in politically challenging situations
- Experience of working in an Investment Bank
- Experience in managing complex projects
- Experience of Structured Testing
- Business analysis skills - working closely with clients to understand requirements
- Project management education and certificate (CAPM, PMI or IPMA) would be an asset
- Knowledge of the Credits Domain would be highly desirable
- Ability to work with very limited level of instruction and supervision.
- The candidate must understand the front-to-back business process and must be able to solution across multiple business domains. Experience with the implementation of projects across a large and diverse stakeholder base located in multiple geographies.
We offer
IT Agile Project Manager for RFIT Treasure Barometer project
Project goal is to deliver key technical capabilities to increase report frequency from weekly to daily for in-scope entities and scenarios, operationalize of Cash Capital, and remediate manual adjustments
Main objectives are:
- Align current Barometer risk metric to the new regulatory environment
- Enable senior management to regularly monitor and manage the bank's liquidity
- Deliver automated reporting on a T+1 basis
- Implement standardized models, in line with bench-marking, with enhanced granularity and flexibility
Scope (Legal Entity / Products / Others)
- Automation of data sourcing
- Stress model enchantments
- Automation of reporting
Benefits
- Satisfy mandatory Basel 3 requirement required by regulators
- Reduced manual enrichment and faster data availability for the end user
- Reduced operational risk and increased operational efficiency - alignment to BCBS 239 Principles
- Enhanced liquidity risk management framework by allowing the capability to identify the vulnerabilities faster and at a more granular level