Senior IT 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?
Senior IT Project Manager
Miejsce pracy: Wroclaw
Nr Ref.: VR-32704
Responsibilites
- Responsible for managing, planning, organizing, implementing and delivery of an international IT project
- Responsible for scope confirmation, definition of implementation approach and scope management
- 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
- Budget and actuals tracking, resource planning, milestone tracking
- 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 objectives.
- Facilitate communication between a number of teams including Business Change Management, Analysts, Designers and Development Managers
- Complies with CS Solution Delivery Framework and Global IT Solution Delivery Policies
- Applicable CS Data Management and Process Policies
- 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:
- Several years of project management experience with proven project delivery track record in larger initiatives (e.g. budgets over US$3,000,000)
- Familiarity with project management methodologies such as PMI or PRINCE2
- Experience with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Iterative, Agile)
- Complex project management experience with dependencies across several global teams
- Project Management experience in the banking or financial industry
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills
- Ability to manage global/virtual teams
- Excellent project planning, controlling and monitoring skills
- Strong leadership and problem solving skills
- Excellent stakeholder management capabilities
- Team player fostering a collaborative and cooperative approach to project delivery
- Ability to identify project risks and define proper mitigation actions
- Excellent organization skills
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- Financial Product Knowledge, such as Lombard Loans, Bonds, Equities, Derivatives, Mortgage
- Knowledge of the Credit Risk domain
- Experience working in an Investment Bank
- Business Analysis Skills: Working closely with clients to understand requirements
- Experience working in Agile projects, preferably as a Scrum Master, would be highly desirable
- German and/or Italian language skills would be a plus
- Project management education and certificate (PMI, IPMA, PRINCE2, or equivalent) would be an asset
We offer
The role is for a Senior IT Project Manager to take a multi-year and multi-million project within the Credit Risk PB Analytics Area. The successful candidate will support the IT Program Manager with several tasks in early stages, but taking full accountability and responsibility of the project once fully on-boarded and ready.
The project is currently transitioning to Agile, therefore it is expected that the candidate is also familiar with Agile SDLC to play the role of "Agile Project Manager", "Agile Delivery Manager" or Super Scrum Master in the future.
Currently PMO support is provided.