Project Manager for Data Informatics and Analytical Solutions division 108 views

Project Manager

Company Overview:

About Palladium – Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value.  We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.  

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Project Overview and Role:

We are looking for a Project Manager, to join the DIAS Regional
team in Nairobi, Kenya to to provide agile and lean thinking project management
approaches for our development team. S/he will provide project management
support for DIAS projects while working with the development team that supports
the design and development of various technology products. S/he will act as a
servant leader through leading by influence to ensure that teams collaborate
around a common DIAS Software development vision while fulfilling user
requirements. S/he will coordinate requirements analysis, task management, Stand-up
Meetings, Sprint Demos and Retrospectives in addition to validating team
performance metrics, and co-facilitating Scrum of Scrums.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

The project manager is responsible for
overseeing software development projects, while also leading the development of
a standardized software development lifecycle management approach.

Project Management:

• Work with Project and Tech Leads in developing project scopes, evaluating technical feasibility of proposed solutions, planning the software development life cycles, develop deployment schedules and budget estimation. Work with the project and development team to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget and that any slippages are identified and mitigated on time.
  
• Determine and define clear roles and deliverables for team members required on specific projects, assign tasks and oversee their end to end execution
  
• Ensure that all user requirements, requested enhancements and reported bugs are accurately captured, validated and prioritized into the portfolio backlog, product backlogs and comprehensively logged as Epics, Features, Stories and Tasks on Jira.
  
• Manage User Stories at a portfolio level and ensure that they are sufficiently documented with clear acceptance criteria and that they are traceable to sprint backlogs.
  
• Facilitate Review sprints with Product Owners and other stakeholders to secure approval and acceptance from the Product Owners, and Retrospect sprints to capture lessons learned and actionable improvements applicable to future sprints.
  
• Champion the Voice of the User by supporting different teams in the consistent application of quality-focused software development and information product development approaches such as Behavior Driven Development, Acceptance Test Driven Development and CI/CD practices.

Process Improvement:

• Analyze existing SDLC project management approaches including costing and budgeting.
  
• Lead the development and implementation of a standardized DIAS software development project management approach, including accompanying tools and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  
• Track implementation of the standard DIAS Software development Project management approach in DIAS projects
  
• Train and mentor project team members on agile techniques.
  
• Establish, refine, adapt, and manage software development and information technology operations (DevOps) processes and tools within the DIAS practice following the corporate Global ICT policies.
  
• Evaluate hardware and software technology options including cost benefit analysis and advise DIAS clients accordingly
  

Required Qualifications:

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 8
  years of experience in Project Management specifically relating to
  technology and data solutions or Business Analyst, Business Process
  Analyst or Scrum Master in a technical, data driven environment.
  
• Solid
  technical background with understanding or hands on experience in software
  development and web technologies
  
• Minimum 5
  years of hands-on experience working in a scrum team environment.
  
• Minimum 3
  years of experience leading scrum teams overseeing the end-to-end design,
  development and implementation of software solutions or the development of
  information products to implement at national scale.
  
• Experience
  with successful Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD,
  Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing
  etc.
  
• Experience using digital tools to manage projects such as Microsoft Teams, Planner, Jira.

Skills and abilities:

• Excellent
  skills and knowledge of servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict
  resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
  
• Excellent coaching
  and mentoring skills.
  
• Excellent
  analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills.
  
• Excellent
  written and oral communication skills.
  
• Logical and lean
  thinking.
  
• Keen attention
  to detail.
  
• Ability to
  conduct research into systems issues and products as required.
  
• Ability to
  communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
  
• Highly
  self-motivated and directed.
  
• Ability to
  effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
  
• Strong
  customer service orientation.
  

Minimum
Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree IT or a related field.
  
• Professional training in Agile Methodologies: Scrum
  preferred.
  
• Training on Lean or Six Sigma is an added advantage.
  
• Project management certification from an accredited
  institution. PMP preferred

 Other
Key Information:

• National and International travel will be required as
  necessary