Position: Project Manager #11515
Company: Lohika
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client is on a mission to create a simple and honest platform to enable millions of crypto holders to maximize the potential of their crypto assets. It operates an easy-to-use app that allows users to access interest-earning, buying, selling and trading in cryptocurrencies, in one single place. Their vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone.

Joining our team, you will gain ability to:
• Act as a project manager for several scrum teams — developing your planning, risk management, release handling, decision making and problem-solving skills significantly.
• Solve the pipeline of planned and unplanned things to meet the business needs.
• Influence the product end user feature look.
• Act as a mentor for the Team Leaders taking the active part of people development.
• Be the main focal point of any queries from client`s side questions to teams you own and vice versa.
• Work with the world`s most trending and actual technology stack and product
• Work on the friendly and collaborative collective of professionals in software engineering
• Constantly learn new things and develop yourself in your professional grow.
• Negotiate for releases scope and timelines based on the deep analyze of metrics, kpis and risks.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Act as a project manager for several scrum teams
• Take responsibility for making key and fast decisions to ensure the successful implementation of all initiatives together with determination of team focus both short/long terms.
• Working in strong collaboration with other teams and their leads \ PMs in building the complex microservice based application.
• Influence on the final product look by the proper discussions of future functionality together with product team, making sure that right answers are asked ahead.
• Lead the certain release pipeline and streams within those: scope analysis, capacity calculation, managing dependencies, release scope proposal, risk management, process monitoring, release progress tracking, bugs triage process, etc.
• Planning involvement for teams’ sprints
• Reporting: sprint level, release level, agenda level
• KPIs / metrics creation and monitoring
• Managing the team’s goals together with the people management and development
• People recruitment and onboarding
• Working on team`s \ overall group continuous improvement principals in processes (dev, test, delivery, etc.) — from the initial idea to the actual implementation and monitoring of the output results
• Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle.
• Supporting project resource scheduling and department capacity planning
• Documentation of the applied processes

EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Must:
• Strong technical background
• Hands on experience of the Agile and traditional SDLC, including the Agile scaling methodologies.
• Good understanding of Functional and Technical Specifications, Design Documentation, Development, QA processes, source control, maintenance, and deployment procedures
• Knowledge and understanding of risk management approaches.
• Hands on experience of building the metrics, KPIs and visual representation of such data.
• Solid experience of working with requirements and good understanding of requirements lifecycle and project scope.
• Understanding of project scheduling practices and ability to apply them on practice.
• Theoretical and practical awareness of the reporting tools and practices
• High Negotiations expertise
• Excellent teamwork skills with an ability to get the work done with minimal supervision.
• Solid knowledge of stakeholder management practices
• Excellent communication skills
• Upper-intermediate English Level (write/read/verbal)