Position: Project Manager
Company: EPAM Systems
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

We work with various projects for EU & North America well-known clients in different industries: financial services, retail, pharma, enterprise software, etc.

We help our customers keep pace with emerging technologies, rising customer expectations, ever-changing regulations, and disruptive business models.

**PROJECT TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS**
- Back-end development: JEE stack (Servlets, JSP, etc.), Spring, Microservices, etc
- Front-end and site logic: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, AngularJs, ReactJS
- Integrations: SOAP, REST, WSDL, XSD, XML, JMS, SMTP, FTP

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Manage project teams (15+ people)
- Proactively manage the number of Client stakeholders
- Build end-to-end project governance from scratch, including comprehensive project tracking
- Proactively communicate on project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders and managers
- Implement organization best practices in the projects
- Perform risk management
- Collaborate with and lead teams of architects, developers, QA engineers
- Quickly gain an understanding of our clients, industries, business, and project objectives
- Optional: cover People Management function at a scale of 10-20 ppl (unit growth, communications, motivation, engagement, retention, salary management)
- Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident demeanor, etc

**REQUIREMENTS**
- 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager in software development projects (web and/or mobile development)
- Thorough understanding of Agile Software Development Methodology, values, and procedures
- Ability to manage/supervise multiple projects in a fast-paced and challenging environment
- Ability to build processes in the new project team from scratch
- Ability to choose, adapt and tailor any delivery methodology being an expert in most of them
- Technology background is a must: the ability to understand, challenge and suggest improvements in solution architecture. Desire to constantly improve the technical solutions to meet changing client needs and market trends
- Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts, hands-on experience in introduction engineering excellence approaches and techniques on the project. Including but not limited to: suitable testing pyramid, CI/CD, code quality tracking and improvements, etc
- Strong experience in people management
- Ability to maintain a high level of organization and attention to detail
- Ability to approach and communicate with a wide range of personalities
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and transparency
- Knowledge of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
- First level Scrum Master certification (PSM I, CSM) would be a plus
- Financial domain experience would be a plus
- Excellent communication skills
- Tolerance to ambiguity
- Fluent English level (B2+)

**WE OFFER**
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
- Individual career path
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Social package - medical insurance, sports
- Compensation for sick lists and regular vacations
- English classes with native speakers (certified English teachers)
- Flexible work hours