Position: Project manager
Company: Digitally Inspired
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

E-commerce platform for one of the largest building merchants. Our client is taking on the complete redevelopment of the existing legacy platform with the focus on UX and Responsive Web Design, and the Microservice Platform. It is aiming to remove vendor locking and fully leverage on the latest Open Source technical stack delivering the eCommerce platform of the future.
The focus is on user journey, offer personalization, search, customer data mining, smart ads, and headless CMS allowing Business to efficiently manage day-to-day trading activities, promotions, and sales.
There will be two parallel streams of work, the first is with the focus on website Front End experience and the second, building a platform allowing a gradual migration of backend towards Microservices Ecosystem based on Kafka Streams and GraphQL.

Skills
— 2+ years of relevant experience as a Project Manager or Scrum Master;
— Proven project management and planning skills;
— Good understanding of Software development life cycle (from the kick-off/initial requirements gathering and till the support phase of the project)
— Good understanding of Agile software development principles and proven ability to lead teams in an Agile environment;
— Strong knowledge of the Scrum Framework;
— Experience working with clients directly;
— Strong written and verbal communication skills;
— Ability to build effective cross-functional teams;
— Upper-intermediate/Fluent English level;

Will be a plus
— Client-side experience, like pre-sale activities and participating in client-side workshops on requirements gathering, etc;
— Atlassian Jira / Confluence (or other relevant PM tools) knowledge;
— Technical background is a plus

We offer
— Work with big UK customer
— Exciting projects and products
— Medical insurance
— Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
— Personal gym and bicycle-friendly office
— The friendly and supportive company environment

Responsibilities
— Lead 2 project teams, be the main driver and facilitator;
— Ensure scope are delivered on time and of high quality;
— Project planning and estimation;
— Take care of people in your team. Measure team satisfaction and efficiency.
— Project execution, tracking and status reporting.
— Define, follow and update KPI’s;
— Risk management;