Position: Delivery Manager
Company: Intellias
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Project Overview:
The first client is a public education agency in USA, for whom Intellias is building a Digital Learning Ecosystem that will deliver custom and personalized experiences for the platform users by incorporating machine learning, artificial intelligence and design thinking along with a CMS for teacher success and student performance.

The other client is an Austrian architectural and construction bureau, specialized in innovative frame buildings, providing a collaborative model, enabling architects, contractors, and customers to interactively create and accompany the project from blueprint to the ready building. The first version of the client's platform, created in collaboration with Intellias is now promoted to the second phase, use of CQRS approach, ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud hosting, etc.

Intellias is now looking for a Delivery Manager to ensure the team's performance, project management and client satisfaction with the team's work and results. The team is mature and self-organized in many aspects.
  
Responsibilities:
Managing several medium-sized and moderately to complex projects by planning, coordinating and monitoring all project activities to ensure projects' execution in a controlled manner;
Ensuring the projects deliver the desired results - within time, budget and quality requirements - as specified in the project roadmap and documentation;
Working closely with the customer and internal stakeholders to manage the day-to-day work of the project ensuring high customer satisfaction level;
Ensuring high-quality of communications both with the Customer and internal stakeholders, including timely and effective managing of stakeholder expectations;
Managing the project team, including staffing, release, onboarding, motivation, retention and compensation;
Act as a team facilitator, where necessary;
Tracking project indicators and team performance, ensuring KPIs reaching success level values, and helping the team with resolving issues that impede their progress;
Lead recruitment activities to ensure team's completeness or extensions based on customer requests or internal project needs;
Managing the projects' financials and knowledge base repository;
Managing project risks, issues and dependencies in an efficient and effective manner;
Producing agreed regular progress reports on the project status for the customer and internal stakeholders;
Act as a backup for Senior Delivery Manager to ensure continuity of project management activities, where necessary.
Requirements:
3+ years of practice as a Project/Delivery Manager in software delivery projects with both Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall approaches;
Experience in managing software project teams of 5-15 people;
Experience in project scheduling, budgeting, risk and change management;
Good understanding of SDLC;
Team player;
Business value-driven;
Excellent communication skills, ability to influence people, lead by example, cultural awareness and managing expectations;
Ability to execute and prioritize a number of tasks simultaneously, resolving interdependencies with multiple stakeholders;
Experience of working with Jira and Confluence tools;
Upper-intermediate or advanced level of writing and verbal English.
Nice to have:
Experience in software out staffing projects;
Experience in improving process maturity in software projects, team velocity and resolving issues;
Experience of Scrum Master activities;
Good knowledge of Agile practices as well as of the PMBOK Guide 6th or 7th ed.
Higher Education:
Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems, Degree in Economics.