Agile Programme Manager

2 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Adzuna ZA B C2 Full time

We are looking for an Agile Programme Manager to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for the overall planning, governance, and successful delivery of Software and Business projects/epics into the business and will be reporting to our CEO.

The candidate must have practical experience of having managed large deliverables (Software and Business implementations) in an agile environment.

What you’ll do:

  • Liaise and work with the various stakeholders (Including clients) and Business Unit Executive Heads to align the objectives/outcomes of the assigned programme with the Businesses overall strategy and
  • Drive programme priority across business
  • Guide business units on resourcing and structure across Projects/epic.
  • Ensures all Projects/Epics have a clear benefit hypothesis / statement and clear acceptance
  • Manage the Programme approval and prioritisation
  • Align Programme Deliverables
  • Coordinate and synchronize Projects/epic-related activities with all
  • Manage the Programme
  • Manage the Programme Risk
  • Defining the programme governance (controls)
  • For Software Projects, collaborate with the Software Product Management and System and Solution Architects/Engineering to decompose the project into features and prioritize the features of Agile Release Train (ART)
  • Manage Program Increment (PI) Planning, System Demos, and other SAFe
  • Continuous coaching of SAFe for roll out across additional business
  • Understand and report on the progress of the Projects/epics MVP deliverables with key
  • Continually assesses the viability of the Projects/epic, leading indicators and the outcomes defined for the
  • Working closely with Project Managers/Scrum Masters for projects within the
  • Working closely with Test Managers for projects within the

Your expertise:

  • 10+ years in Project Management (At least 5 in managing Agile Projects).
  • Experience in managing projects with both physical and digital
  • Experience with Scaled Agile Framework Portfolio Management is
  • Experience with Office 365 (Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and Excel).
  • Experience with tools like JIRA, MS DevOps,
  • Experience with Design Thinking tools like Miro, Figma,
  • Experience with DevOps and increasing Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment maturity is advantageous

Qualifications required:

  • Relevant tertiary
  • Agile Project Management Certification (preferably CPAPM or SAFe).

Skills and attributes:

  • Deep understanding of iterative product development methodologies - such as SAFe and scrum
  • Ability to work with and influence remote
  • Strong planning, communication (written and verbal), presentation, negotiation, facilitation
  • Strong leadership and management
  • The ability to manage project/product
  • The ability to coach business units to manage resource
  • The ability to find innovative ways to resolve
  • Project Cross Skills would be advantageous (Change Management, Test Analyst, Business Analyst etc.).

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

  • Permanent Position
  • Location: Remote or (at the Head Office in Johannesburg)

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