Position: Head of DMO
Company: EPAM Systems
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in or lead the development of best practices, project standards, procedures, and quality objectives, including metrics for assessing progress.
- Ensure overall projects transparency and visibility to leadership and project team
- Obtain scope, schedule and cost requirements for the project(s) through direct communication with client
- Facilitate the creation and execution of corresponding mitigation plans to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives
- Monitor project milestones and critical dates to identify risks and issues
- Provide the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance
- Develop and maintain a productive working relationship within local team and with internal/external stakeholders
- Validate technical aspects of proposed solutions in connection with project execution risks
- Determine staffing requirements based on scope, schedule and cost
- Conduct project/program kickoff meetings, present individual roles and project expectations
- Provide work direction and leadership to assigned projects or programs
- Manage conflict resolution within the project team.

REQUIREMENTS
- 8+ years of IT Project Management experience
- 3-5+ years of hands-on software development experience will be a plus
- Good knowledge of project management foundations: planning, scheduling, project communication, issue resolution, change management, and risk management
- Demonstrated ability to obtain results in a matrix organization; ability to enlist support of cross function teams within a large or matrix organization
- Demonstrated strength in problem definition and resolution
Experience in the use of multiple structured Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, DAD
- Ability to engage with the client in technology discussions
- Demonstrated skills in client relationship management and ability to manage, direct and command respect from technical and delivery team members
- Self-starter mindset
- Multitasking and high energy capabilities
- Advanced English level
- Relevant technology background:
MS Stack: Java or .NET
Public Clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP) will be a plus.