Position: Project/Delivery manager
Company: Norse
Experience required: 2y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

** Norse** is looking for a Delivery manager to join our cross-functional engineering team. 

We are a friendly international team of professionals allocated in several cities of Ukraine and Norway. Around 50 persons are employed in our Odessa office. We are a digital studio for startups and established companies needing teams with a startup mentality, and provide a full cycle software development services, application management, customer service, support and recovery management.

**About the Position**

- Use Agile scrum methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions
- Facilitate daily stand-up and sprint planning, demo, and retrospective
- Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
- Create and/or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
- Guide the team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
- Drive team iteration execution, communication with management and stakeholders, protecting the process from uncontrolled injection of work. - - 
- Changes are evaluated and should be intentional
- Able to challenge technical and development approach proposed by team members and/or 3rd parties
- Work with the Team Leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
- Maintain team data in project management and/or ticketing software to support estimates and execution
- Lead meetings with leadership and be prepared to discuss project status, key performance indicators for scope, schedule, quality, resource, and cost
- Support requirements through analysis of client need documents such as, but not limited to, vision, scope, program road-map, user stories, and other artifacts
- Plan and develop schedules, monitor, and report on activities and dependencies, including integration/development monitoring, slippage, and updating schedules
- Plan, lead, and facilitate meetings and reviews, including creating agendas, documenting information discussed in meetings and synthesizing decisions
 - Monitor progress and key milestones. Identify, track, report, and mitigate project issues and risk.
 - Manage budget and cost-to-completion, and make decisions accordingly, provide improvements plans, and reporting on budget regularly-  Manage, track, and report on percent complete, budget burn, burn down charts, project effort, and duration to complete and other key project metrics 
- Manage, track and report on team hours and expenses on a weekly basis, including any contractors used on the project
- Manage scope of work/requirements and explain implications of changes to scope and/or objectives, and work with customers on scope creep and additional costs
 - Manage change management through change requests, phased delivery or other methods to ensure delivery on timeline, scope, budget, and strategy expectations

**About You**

● Strong technical understanding of web and mobile applications/platforms
● Ability to transform abstract ideas into a working proof of concept, to delivery on Production
● Clearly communicate capabilities, opportunities, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
● Experience in understanding source data from various systems and platforms for data integration
● High-energy, decisive, ability to motivate
● Ability meet product launch schedules
● Positive entrepreneurial attitude
● Exceptional relationship building skills
● Excellent written and oral communication skills
● Strong analytical capabilities
● Advanced problem-solving skills
● Ability to influence decision-making and change
● Ability to display good judgment
● Self starter and self motivated
● Comfortable working with customers and internal teams in different time zones
● Able to adjust your way-of-working, so that you can communicate and collaborate with both technical and less technical people.

**Experience**

● 2+ years of project management and scrum master experience 
● Demonstrate expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
● Experience managing multiple complex projects
● Expertise in creating project plans with detailed work breakdown structure, etc
● Enterprise experience coordinating operations of multiple technical environments
● Previous Development or QA Engineer experience a plus