Grand Parade is looking to hire a Project Manager who wants to take on cool projects focused on betting and sports while working with some of the best developers, QA, Sys Admins, and Support staff in Krakow. The Project Manager is responsible for multiple projects ranging in different size scope and type of project - ranging from widgets, CMS sites, desktop/mobile casinos and betting sites... just to name a few.
Who we are and what do we do in Grand Parade?
We are a Polish-British software development company specializing in building advanced systems for the online sports betting industry in Europe, USA and Australia. The solutions built by Grand Parade are used by tens of millions of users per day and our customers including Coral, Betfair, Bwin, Ladbrokes and Unibet are considered as leading companies in the industry.
What challenges we are facing every day?
- Complex real- time web apps
- Interactive dashboards and scoreboards supporting thousands of requests per second
- Real- time data processing
- More than 20 million users daily
- Gigabytes of data per day
As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for ensuring proper project plan, timeline, resourcing, and directly being in contact with the client - gathering scope/change requests, conducting demos and project updates, and issue management.
Responsibilities include:
- Coordinating the execution of IT projects according to defined timeline and budget with team of developers and QA engineers
- Ensuring developers keep to established good practices/processes and all required tests are completed by QA team
- Running projects in Agile/Scrum or other project methodologies
- Coordinating the deployment of projects onto various environments with Sys Admin team
- Ensuring projects are properly supported, understood, and monitored by our Support team
- Creating and controlling project plans for all projects that PM is responsible for
- Delegating and ensuring execution of tasks by team members
- Consulting and deciding on architecture/technology used in projects with Technical Leads, CTO
- Consulting with Sys Admins and deciding on on appropriate servers, backup systems such as fail-over, monitoring required for projects.
- Reporting project status and raising issues as they arise
- Good/Great knowledge/experience with Agile/Scrum
- Good knowledge of IT technologies
- Experience and understanding of JIRA
- Experience with CMS sites and their functionality such as WordPress
- Experience leading projects for external clients with tight deadlines
- Great ability to communicate (most important!) and build relationships with all stakeholders (internal and external)
- Great Polish and English skills (written and speaking)
- Great ability to be organized and multitask (you will have more than one project)
We offer competitive salary and opportunity to work with amazing people (without bored managers who prefer 10-years old solutions), Lunch & Learn, internal training sessions and interesting events organized by employees (e.g. internal GP football league, FIFA, board games). Basically it looks like that:
- Fully paid private healthcare (Enel-Med)
- Fully paid Multisport pass
- Flexible working hours
- Lots of integration events & company parties
- Individual training budget
- Competitive salary
- Option to work on B2B contract
- Company competitions with cool prizes
- Brand new office in the city center (+1000m2)
- Business trips to our headquarter in London
- Employee referral program (up to 5000 PLN)