Position: Agile Team Lead
Company: WiseheadHunters
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

We are seeking a highly accomplished / multi-faceted senior project manager who can manage all aspects of development operations. You will provide Senior Level direction to our team to help them better manage technology strategy, software development, planning, integration, and implementation. You will take a holistic view of our current development team structure and help us scale our internal operations to facilitate growth.  You will delegate tasks directly to the IT management staff.

 
Responsibilities:

 

Strong background in agile & scrum methodologies
Provide direction to the management team to help them better manage Engineers, Quality Engineering and Data Analytics staff.
Identify opportunity areas and help our organization optimize current employees, identify waste, and hire new talent.,
Provide technical guidance, mentorship and coaching to the entire technology team.
Evaluate and recommend tools, trends, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality technology delivery. 
Help our team improve Agile software development process, test-driven development and move towards a comprehensive DevOps environment.
Suggest and implement improvements for creating company culture. 
Collaborate with management and staff and employees.  Evaluate team composition to improve efficiency and effectiveness, hold team(s) accountable for commitments and constantly facilitate higher velocity and quality 
Collaborate with product owners and project delivery teams to drive the Agile process, including release and sprint cycles, to ensure high quality releases delivered on schedule. 
Develop and implement IT policies and procedures, including those for secure software development, enterprise information security and disaster recovery.
 

Skills:

Technology leadership and management

Technology products and services development and delivery

Software development management

Software development methodology management

Technology vision and strategy

Technology roadmap and the business objectives alignment

Technology strategy communications

Technology staff management

Technology governance

Technology research and evaluation

 

Background:

• Proven experience building and leading high performing teams with a track record of delivering.

• Keen business acumen and proven executive management abilities based on prior experience.

• Must be independent, innovative, creative, organized and capable of managing multiple tasks, as well as setting individual day-to-day priorities. Must have the ability to interact effectively with co-workers, understand and follow policies and procedures and accept constructive criticism.

• Experience with application design and architecture of complex, scalable, performant, extensible, highly-available software platforms

• Experience with a variety of data stores, like SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB as well as others

• DevOps implementation experience

• Previous experience in regulated industries highly desired (finance, healthcare)