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?
Responsibilities - your job will involve:
- Ensuring the Polish Scrum Teams are following Scrum and Agile as closely as possible and assisting the teams when they hit impediments
- Focus on Customer satisfaction and delivery, managing customer's expectations
- Ensuring work pipeline for all teams (in Krakow and Wroclaw)
Tracking delivery status for ongoing features
- Tracking teams performance and issues
- Raising delivery risks to customer and negotiate options. Assisting Scrum teams via escalation of domain experts with any delivery issues to allow teams to focus on development changes.
- Weekly portfolio review and weekly delivery status reports for customer
- Discussing with customer possible solutions for problem areas (like Testing strategy, Tech Debt management, Pre inception phase, Release process and Process standardization), regular communication with customer on future process changes
- Setting up and running Scrum of scrums within the Polish Scrum teams to share knowledge and suggestions for continuous improvement within the process and product.
- Championing & promoting Scrum and Agile within the teams.
Requirements:
- 6+ year's practical experience in IT
- At least 3+ year's professional experience of using Agile/Scrum in a role of Project Manager
- Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of Agile is required as we are looking for Agile Champion. Either through Scrum mastering or Agile coaching in a previous role.
- Experience in management several Scrum teams, Scaling Agile / Agile enterprise.
- Experience in People Management and Project Management
- Solid SDLC understanding and implementation experience (Agile/Scrum is must)
- Excellent soft English communication skills (Advanced level)
- Ideally to have an experience of Investment Banking / BA experience in Agile
- Previous experience in role of Developer or BA or QA is a plus
- Experience in multi-international environment is a plus
- Experience of working in large company is a plus
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Just facts
The program operates across seven countries: Poland, UK, Ukraine, Hong Kong, India, China, US and involves approximately 120 IT personnel including 15 Scrum teams. Luxoft provides 6 teams and 10 on-site employees including a Portfolio Manager and two Project Managers.
The program covers 9 modular application components. Production releases every 4 weeks, bi-weekly sprints. Approximately 200 code changes per day. 5,000 functional and regression tests run every day. 2.2 million Lines of code. Over 700 users of the application across 18 countries.
We succeed to deliver a scalable, flexible operations processing platform capable of supporting business growth at zero marginal cost, maximizing STP (Straight-through processing) through the reduction of manual processes, and creating best-in-class operational infrastructure that could be leveraged across asset classes.
Each of our teams consists of a Business Analyst, QA and 4 developers who work together in the same room and interact on a daily basis. The team is responsible for an end-to-end software development process starting from high-level requirements clarification and finishing by release build preparation.
We have set-up efficient Scrum Enterprise process with such elements as TDD & BDD, automated tests, self-managed teams, code review and Continues Integration practices and continues working on Technical Debt.
We don't have manual testing. We are disciplined when write code, follow pair-programming and TDD practices, use several levels of testing (unit, integration & functional and acceptance). This allows us to keep quality at a high level and don't have post-release support phase.
Our developers regularly attend Luxoft training courses and participate in programming competitions such as hackathons.
Regular business trips to London allow our employees to improve their English level; this also provides opportunities for knowledge sharing with high-skilled technical and business experts on customer side.
Technology Stack
Java: Spring Framework, Hibernate, Oracle SQL Server, Drools, XQuery, JAXB, SOAP
Testing: JUnit, EasyB, Cucumber, Mockito/EasyMock, JBehave, Concordion
Infrastructure: Unix, IBM MQ, Autosys, EMS+
GUI: GWT, Groovy/Grails, Tomcat
Messaging Industrial Standards: Swift, FIX/FIXML
Miscellaneous: Velocity, TeamCity, RALLY
Future plans: GigaSpaces, HTLM5/JavaScript, Java 8, Scala