Position: Senior Technical Delivery Manager, PgM
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client is a leading global Financial Market data provider who runs several change programs to deliver high-quality software that connects Financial Markets across the globe in a real-time, high frequency, and low-latency data management chain. The projects are technically challenging in a very engaging environment making the most of cutting-edge technologies covering the domains of Real-Time, Big Data, Cloud, and Machine Learning.

We are looking for a Technical Delivery Manager/PgM a who has experience in product organization, coordination, mentoring multiple teams, conducted PI planning events, Innovation & Planning, as well as Program Retrospectives, who is comfortable working with Senior Stakeholders, Product Management and has proven experience of establishing proper metrics, KPIs and assessments needed to keep projects on-track. On top of that, you are capable of responding to technical questions and putting in strong SAFe delivery practices across all required areas.
Responsibilities:
• Synchronizing multiple teams to work on a single capability/feature or epic
• Driving continuous development, continuous improvements and innovation
• Managing risks and escalating impediments, while also acting as a full time Chief Scrum master for a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Ensuring consistency in predictability, quality and methodology
• Management reporting across delivery functions
• Being the point of escalation for delivery issues
• Maintaining positive employee and team experiences, teaching teams and scrum masters about the combination of Lean and Agile management practices and ideologies
• Creating and communicating the annual calendars for iterations and PIs; facilitating PI planning and readiness; summarizing and publishing PI objectives
• Monitoring and reporting on the success of the project
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Technical background, ideally with 10+ years of professional IT delivery within Managed Services, IT outsourcing industry, Consultancy Experience, System Migration/Integration, Cloud implementation.
• Hands-on experience with SAFe practices is a significant plus
• Hands-on experience in running Scrum of Scrums with full set of Agile Rituals
• Hands-on experience in backlog refinement and PI planning or similar to that
• Experience in leading and coaching cross-functional / distributed teams
• Experience in adopting the end-to-end service based on customer feedback as well as User Experience.
• Expert understanding of Agile delivery frameworks, processes, practices tools and why they are important, with strong understanding of digital product development, usage and application
• Similar experience to Lean Budgeting and capacity management
• Demonstrate experience of delivering Change Programs and Application Support services across multiple industries
• Experience in transformation from Waterfall to Agile
• Ability to lead key strategic initiatives and coordinate non-direct reports
Nice-to-Have Skills:
Experience in Financial IT or Capital Markets
Languages:
English: B2 Upper Intermediate