Position: Development Center Manager
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 5y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2020-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Description
DCM are the leader of Betsson Development Center in Kyiv, responsible for the delivery of the development center, representing the company, making sure the Kyiv office is aligned to Betsson culture, spirit and professional standards and acts as a leader.

Responsibilities
The main responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Responsibility of Kyiv office delivery
Ensure that the teams are properly structured and staffed with capable resources to meet the requirements to deliver against the Development Roadmap
Ensure adequate on call support and that teams are tightly coordinated with Service Availability Team (SAT), and are performing Root Cause Analysis for production incidents, properly driving corrective and preventive actions
Act as an escalation point for on call production incidents
Managing culture and engagement events and activities
Facilities management; organizing and managing office space and logistics
Travel management for Kyiv employees and managing visitors
Facilitate and maintain excellent communication between different Betsson offices (Malta, Stockholm, Tallin, Budepest)
Represent Kyiv office on various management meetings. Take active part in Betsson cross office initiatives
Build strong leadership team in Kyiv site, mentor Team Leads on personal and business matters
Hold team gatherings for the site-related activities/issues/requirements or any other cross company topics that needs to be communicated
Communicate Betsson policies, values, strategies, and objectives to Kyiv office
Be a driver for internal promotions and changes in Kyiv office processes
Be involved in final interviews for every position in Kyiv office
Be involved in the planning and execution of all employee related activities (hackathons, learn and develop events, Winter and Summer parties etc.)
Coordinate with DCM’s from offices to assist overall delivery success, manage risks, and drive processes improvements

Requirements
Leadership and management experience, understanding on how R&D operates in an agile environment
Proven project management and planning skills, history of delivering projects on time with groups of more than 20 developers and QA engineers
Technical project management background & good understanding of full range of SDLC
Strong people management & leadership skills
Proven experience of risk management & mitigation
Strong communication & negotiation skills with the ability to influence senior business executives on agile culture and best practices
Ability to balance stakeholders, build trustful relationship
Experience of working in a multicultural environment
Demonstrated ability to build effective teams, motivate, direct and coach staff
Excellent communication skills in English
Ability to work in a high pace and a high velocity environment
Ability to manage organizational changes and transformations

What's in it for you
Challenging tasks – you and the team are to define every next Sprint, tasks and how they will be implemented
Smart solutions – yes, we produce them
Career and professional growth opportunities
Conferences, knowledge sharing activities, certifications
Sport & team-building activities
Office in Gulliver. Nice view in any weather
Smiles and jokes