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Job Title: Agile Software Development Project Manager
Location: Cardiff - Once a week
Salary/Rate: £475-£530 per day
Start Date: 03/06/24
Job Type: Contract - Inside IR35

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading Data Analytics clients! They are currently looking for a passionate Software Development Project Manager with solid Agile knowledge to manage projects and support product delivery for our Business Services software development teams.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

As a Software Project Manager, you will be an essential member of our team, managing a diverse range of software projects and activities.

1. 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)
2. Work closely with the Software Development Lead and Product Owner to ensure that the teams remain closely synchronised and upcoming features are well planned
3. Ensure project resources and budgets are tracked and kept up to date.
4. Develop and distribute timely status reporting with key metrics to appropriate stakeholders.
5. Create, manage and share delivery plans, providing visibility of progress
6. Own and manage dependencies, ensuring the timely resolution, mitigating where needed or escalating where missed dependencies will impact the teams delivery.
7. 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
8. Make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and procedures
9. Ensure timely use of project and technology tools to help drive accountability.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

1. Previous proven project leadership experience
2. Strong experience in Scrum or Kanban.
3. SDLC knowledge and experience managing web based application projects
4. Present information in a concise and effective manner, ensuring messages are received, understood and all parties are aligned
5. Motivate or inspire others to aim for higher levels of achievement
6. Adopt new ways of doing things in pursuit of adding value to customers and the team
7. Actively foster diversity and inclusion, valuing and respecting differences to achieve team harmony and enable higher team performance
8. Learn from challenging experiences, recover and continue making progress towards objectives without reducing pace
9. Align short-term priorities with strategic and long-term objectives

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

1. Experience working with JIRA; including generating dashboards, and bespoke filters.
2. Experience working with matrixed/shared teams
3. Experience working with MS Office and Atlassian tools
4. Experience in a Scrum Master role
5. Certified Scrum Master
6. Project governance certification
7. Participation in the project management community

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Not with standing any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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