Project Manager

• Start new project as part of the program
• Build teams
• Ensure close and constant monitoring of customer satisfaction
• Provide reporting, drive project planning
• Perform staff risk management, performance reviews, regular personnel appraisals
• Drive implementation of key processes across teams (requirements and change management, acceptance criterion, continuous integration, delivery quality standards, fine tuning to agile approach)
• Ensuring sharing of best practices/business domain knowledge/exploiting synergies between teams
• Identifying infrastructure issues, other inefficiencies in the environment and drive solutions.
• Helps with final interviews and assist with new-hire activities

• Very good experience in project management
• Experience in directly managing medium to large development teams (30+) preferably in an outsourcing/off-shoring setup.
• Educational background in Computer Science.
• Excellent soft skills and English communication skills
• No hands-on development assignments are envisioned; however candidate needs good understanding of full technology stack and up to date with recent technological developments.
• Individual should be in a position to hold deep technical discussions and propose solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts
• Experience in hiring new team members

Customer: Top-tier Investment Bank developing internal finance systems.

Team: cross-functional and self-organizing teams, working directly with stakeholders in highly collaborative manner.

Technologies: Working on highly scalable and flexible backend systems institution

Process: Agile at Scale: distributed Scrum/Kanban with practices like TDD, pair-programming, retrospections, product backlog.

Business trips: Business trips to London for team members.

On-going learning: Business & technical trainings along with conference attendance.