Senior Agile Project Manager

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time
Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant

REQ – Thembi Mtshali

Job Family
Project, Process and ProductCareer Stream
ProjectsLeadership Pipeline
Manage Self: ProfessionalJob Purpose

To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team

Job Responsibilities
  • Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
  • Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
  • Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
  • Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
  • Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
  • Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
  • Ensure project budget are managed within project scope.
  • Ensure projects are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
  • Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
  • Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations.
  • Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule. Meet project requirements.
  • Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope.
  • Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented.
  • Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
  • Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle.
  • Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan.
  • Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood.
  • Ensure clients are informed.
  • Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
  • Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
  • Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope.
  • Ensure sufficient resource allocations.
  • Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology.
  • Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation.

Critical Job Requirements
  • Must have large complex programme / project delivery experience, with delivery across multiple agile teams (squads).
  • They must have executive stakeholder management experience and be able to put together executive appropriate summarised updates.
  • Knowledge of the Juristic (CIB, NCB, SBS) environment would be advantageous.
  • Knowledge of programme delivery into Africa would be advantageous.
Key/ Critical tasks
  • To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy.
  • To manage the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects/solutions or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation to realize the business strategy. Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps assure value delivery and helps drive continuous improvement. Hybrid role that balances Agile leadership and project/program management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently. Leveraging the solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning large development programs.
Exposure/Experience
  • Planning and Organising
  • Influencing
  • Decision Making
  • Work Standards
  • Applied learning
  • Customer Orientation
  • Earning Trust
  • Built a high performance culture
  • Built and maintained stakeholder relationship
  • Designed Workforce Planning Solutions
  • Improved Processes and Culture
  • Managed Relationships
  • Managed Self and Team
  • Managed budget
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
  • Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
  • Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree
Preferred Qualification
  • Professional Qualification/Honours Degree
  • Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification
Essential Certifications
  • PMP or Prince certification.
    Programme Management certification (PGMP)
Preferred Certifications
  • Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification
Minimum Experience Level
  • 10 years experience working in a project environment of large project and or programmes of which 2-3 years management
Behavioural Competencies
  • Decision Making
  • Influencing
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Work Standards
  • Applied Learning
  • Customer Orientation
  • Earning Trust
Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

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