Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead and drive the software development teams in achieving timely and high-quality product delivery.
This role involves coaching teams, facilitating Agile practices, managing delivery risks, and ensuring effective communication among stakeholders.
The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple development teams and a strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
About Product:
SOFTSWISS Game Aggregator
A fast and cost-effective solution that allows you to integrate and manage casino gaming content easily
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Leadership & Team Facilitation
- Serve as a servant-leader for Backend, Frontend, and QA/AQA teams, ensuring Agile principles and Scrum best practices are effectively implemented.
- Coach and mentor team members to foster a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, to maintain collaboration and transparency.
- Identify and remove impediments, ensuring teams remain focused on delivering value.
Delivery Management & Execution
- Own the end-to-end delivery process, ensuring timely execution of features and initiatives based on an approved roadmap.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and Engineering Leads to define feature delivery plans, including scope, dependencies, and risk assessment.
- Monitor and control feature delivery progress across sprints, ensuring commitments align with the agreed plan.
- Proactively manage risks and dependencies, coordinating across multiple teams to ensure smooth delivery.
- Enforce stakeholder engagement, ensuring expectations are managed, concerns are addressed, and feedback loops are effective.
- Lead issue resolution during sprints by working closely with team members and engineering leads.
Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement
- Continuously evaluate and refine delivery frameworks, improving efficiency and effectiveness in Agile workflows.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation on delivery processes, agreements, and best practices.
- Drive process automation and improvements, ensuring alignment with best practices.
- Highlight and track quality-related issues and trends, collaborating with QA Leads to drive product quality enhancements.
- Ensure effective cross-team collaboration, helping teams navigate operational challenges.
Team Management & Development
- Conduct soft skills evaluations and risk assessments during interviews.
- Participate in performance reviews and probation period assessments, providing structured feedback.
- Optimize team composition and workload management, ensuring efficient task assignments and skill balance.
- Track individual and team performance, conducting regular 1:1s and implementing performance improvement plans where necessary.
- Manage vacation and absence planning, ensuring minimal impact on delivery timelines.
Reporting & Stakeholder Communication
- Provide weekly reports on feature/project progress, risks, blockers, and key metrics.
- Deliver sprint reports, including issue tracking, root cause analysis, and improvement actions.
- Prepare monthly capacity allocation reports, offering transparency into feature costs and resource allocation.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a Project/Delivery Manager in the IT industry across multiple organizations.
- Proven ability to manage multiple teams of 10+ members.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.
- Adaptability to changing priorities and the ability to navigate uncertainty effectively.
- Proficiency in Jira (Plans, eazyBI, BigPicture) and Confluence.
- English and Russian proficiency at B2+ level (Upper-Intermediate or higher).
Nice to have:
- Experience in the Gambling industry.
- Background in product-focused companies.
- Prior experience in software development.
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certifications.