Position: Business Analyst/ PO/TPM
Company: Grid Dynamics
Experience required: 5y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

We are looking for strong Analyst/PO/TPM with technical background.

1. Project description
Engineering Product/Project Management. The work includes:
- AWS migration
- Brand new features

2. Min requirements to the candidate
- **readiness to work till 10/11 pm European time (on a regular basis)**
- Excellent communication
- Understanding how to collect priorities for projects and push them forward without being the direct manager - i.e. get people into meetings, ensure priorities are set, timelines defined, teams are unblocked if dependent on other teams....
- Be able to dig beyond the first line of questions - what is the business motivation
- 6+ years of project management experience
- Ideally technical background in Big Data so that the candidate can understand the landscape
- Willing and able to learn new technologies quickly
- Some technical background or proof of technical competence (discuss tool advantages, understand software lifecycle and process)

3. Nice to have requirements to the candidate
- Background in big data engineering or big data engineering program management

4. Do you have client interview?
- Yes, 1 

5. Current team size, their locations and whether team is going to grow?
3 FTE - 5 contractors. Time overlap expected up to 1-2 PM PDT.

6. What tasks the candidate will work with?
- Program management of defined projects - overall responsible for ensuring clarity in project status, priority and estimated delivery
- Define task prioritization and inform all relevant parties
- Create and maintain timelines
- Set expectations regarding timelines based on team capabilities and availability
- Unblocking teams (technical/external dependencies) by reaching out to relevant parties in Apple
- Create roadmaps
- Track daily status
- Present progress and overall status to directors and key Apple stakeholders
- Reporting of business needs

7. What is good about project / client / team / etc

- Managing projects for Dream Client from a project perspective and work in one of the biggest, quickest growing Data Analytics departments
- Work with the very best and experienced program managers in the world