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Job Details
Software Project Manager (Contract)
Location: Wales - Cardiff Country: UK Rate: £500-525 p/d (Inside IR35)
Software Project Manager - 1 day p/week in the Cardiff Office, the rest can be remote
We re looking for a skilled Software Project Manager well-versed in Agile methodologies to oversee project delivery for our clients Business Services software teams.
Your role will involve managing multiple projects, ensuring effective communication and problem-solving, and fostering collaboration across the organisation.
Software, Agile, Jira, Excel and Confuence, strong stakeholder management and communication skills needed
Responsibilities
- Support 2-3 cross-functional agile product development teams as they efficiently deliver features and exciting capabilities (teams are usually between 4 - 8 members, depending on the deliverables)
- Work closely with the Software Development Lead and Product Owner to ensure that the teams remain closely synchronised and upcoming features are well planned
- Ensure project resources and budgets are tracked and kept up to date.
- Develop and distribute timely status reporting with key metrics to appropriate stakeholders.
- Create, manage and share delivery plans, providing visibility of progress
- Own and manage dependencies, ensuring the timely resolution, mitigating where needed or escalating where missed dependencies will impact the teams delivery.
- Identify project risks & issues, escalating where appropriate in a timely manner; ensure impacts are communicated so all parties are aligned; partner with project stakeholders to resolve issues and mitigate project impacts
- Make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and procedures
- Ensure timely use of project and technology tools to help drive accountability.
Desirable Skills and Attributes
Experience working with JIRA; including generating dashboards, and bespoke filters.
Experience working with matrixed/shared teams
Experience working with MS Office and Atlassian tools
Experience in a Scrum Master role
Certified Scrum Master
Project governance certification
Participation in the project management community
Posted Date: 12 Apr 2024
Reference: JS
Employment Business: IntaPeople
Contact: Phil Dancey