GRS are working with an international group of companies working in a variety of industries, they are looking to recruit a Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master to join this growing brand. The successful candidate will be directly responsible in managing the development sprints effectively and efficiently from planning to execution. If you are able to collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing start-up company where you will have the opportunity to guide the development of our portfolio of products, we look forward to receiving your CV.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
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Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
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Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
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Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
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Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
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Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations
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running at a high performance
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Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
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Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
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Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
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Implement and support principles, rules and processes
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Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
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Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support estimates and execution
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Presents high level project readouts for senior management
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Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
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Manage other special projects as assigned
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Other duties as needed
CANDIDATE PROFILE
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BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
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Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
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Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
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Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
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Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
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Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
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Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
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Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
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Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
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Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
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Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
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Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
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Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
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Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
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Self-motivated, organized
Due to the high volume of applications we receive at GRS Recruitment, only shortlisted candidates will be responded to.
To apply for this position, please email your CV to Hayley Buckle, Hayley@grsrecruitment.com quoting the above job reference or call +357 25 342 720 for further information.