Position: Intermediate Project Manager
Company: Dev.Pro
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We invite a Project Manager to join our team of 80+ professionals who have been working on creating a data ecosystem for financial instruments. Our client is a US-based financial startup. Together, we are developing an innovative business platform for capital market professionals. The goal of the product is to document and distribute financial instruments on a more standardized basis. We use Blockchain to connect notarized data to digital tokens, which represent proof of ownership of assets. 
**What’s in it for you:**
• Work with a diverse tech stack (CloudFormation, migration to Terraform, AWS, Docker, TeamCity, Kubernetes, Terraform, Hashi Vault, Git/GitHub, Monitoring Grafana, CloudWatch, Secure Storage)
• Work closely with System Architect, QA and BA teams, Markup developer, DevOps and Designer. 
• Improve your expertise and learn from experienced team-mates, as 42% of our team-members are Senior level Engineers, 39% are Intermediate SWEs. 
• Dive into the blockchain technologies and gain expertise in a fintech domain, discover a domain-driven design concept. 

**Role description**
You will work side by side with other project managers. Your responsibilities will include 60% of involvement as a DevOps team Project Manager and 40% of involvement to Project Releases, but are not limited to the following:

**DevOps team Project Manager:**
• Plan, procure and execute the project using Kanban
• Monitor timely execution of project deliverables.
• Help the team to understand the flow end to end
• Manage change requests. Be aware of project priorities to help the team to focus on them and react accordingly.
• Quality control and time allocation
• Requirements clarification that came from the business team
• Constant and timely update stakeholders (internal and external) on changes, progress, delays.
• Analysis and assistance in updating and improving the existing procedures on the project related to the DevOps team.
• Build strong and productive collaboration between Dev and DevOps team
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between distributed DevOps team at different locations resolving integration issues and removing impediments.

**Coordinator of Project Releases:**
• Coordinate releases on project that take place at the end of each 3 weeks Sprint: negotiate, plan and manage all related activities
• Follow the existing project release procedure flow, update related documentation and suggest improvements to the procedure itself if any weak points have been determined
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Provide visibility to all interested parties.

**Required skills:**
• 3+ years of commercial experience in Project Management in IT
• Strong theoretical and technical background in project and release management, development of policies and procedures.
• Hands-on experience in planning, executing, successful delivery, requirements and risk management
• Skill in preventing issues rather than fixing the consequences
• Ability to set up custom measurements that may be applicable to projects in order to fine-tune the processes and maintain stability
• Ability to maintain a project schedule and minimize team distractions
• Ability to ensure that best practices in regard to quality are applied and followed on the project
• Ability to build trusted relationships with the team: coaching and mentoring, team and conflict management, team motivation and team building
• Self-accountability
• Experience in communication with customers in software outsourcing and 3rd parties
• Upper-intermediate English

**Nice to have:**
• ITIL, SOC, ISO certifications
• Experience in managing a remote team

**About Company:**

Dev.Pro is a US-based outsource company of people who value high ethical standards and have delivered superior software products since 2011. The rapid growth of the company brings more development opportunities for our specialists, which is key to delivering an exceptional experience to our clients.