Intermediate Project Manager

We invite a project manager to join our team of 80+ professionals who have been working on creating a data ecosystem for financial instruments.

Our client is a US-based financial startup. Together, we are developing an innovative business platform for capital market professionals. The goal of the product is to document and distribute financial instruments on a more standardized basis. We use Blockchain to connect notarized data to digital tokens, which represent proof of ownership of assets. What's in it for you:

• Dive into the blockchain technologies, gain expertise in a fintech domain, and learn a domain-driven design concept, as we implement it on our project
• Improve your expertise and learn from experienced team-mates, as 42% of our team-members are Senior level Engineers, 39% are Intermediate SWEs
• We deliver full SDLC, following agile processes by the book (Scrum in particular)

Qualifications and experience:

• 3+ years' commercial experience in Project Management in IT
• Strong theoretical and practical background in project and release management, development of policies and procedures
• Hands-on experience in planning, executing, successful delivery, requirements and risk management
• Skills in preventing issues rather than fixing consequences
• Ability to set up custom measurements that may be applicable to projects in order to fine-tune the processes and maintain stability
• Ability to maintain a project schedule, minimize team distractions, and ensure that best quality practices are applied and followed on the project
• Ability to build trusted relationships with the team: coaching and mentoring, team and conflict management, team motivation and team building
• Self-accountability, experience in communicating with customers in software outsourcing and 3rd parties
• Upper-intermediate English

Nice to have:

• ITIL, SOC, ISO certifications
• Experience in managing a remote team

Key responsibilities:

You will work side by side with other project managers. Your responsibilities will include 60% of involvement as a DevOps team Project Manager and 40% of involvement to Project Releases.

DevOps team Project Manager tasks:

• Plan, procure and execute the project using Kanban
• Monitor timely execution of project deliverables, help the team to understand the end-to-end flow
• Manage change requests. Be aware of project priorities to help the team to focus on them and react accordingly
• Perform quality control, time allocation, and requirements clarification that came from the business team
• Constant and timely update stakeholders (internal and external) on changes, progress, delays
• Analyse and assist in updating and improving the existing procedures on the project related to the DevOps team
• Build strong and productive collaboration between Dev and DevOps teams
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between distributed DevOps teams at different locations resolving integration issues and removing impediments

Coordinator of Project Releases tasks:

• Coordinate releases on the project that take place at the end of each 3 weeks Sprint: negotiate, plan and manage all related activities
• Follow the existing project release procedure flow, update related documentation and suggest improvements to the procedure itself if any weak points have been determined
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Work with release engineers to understand impact of branches and code merges
• Provide visibility to all interested parties

Our benefits:

•  Professional and personal growth: ability to shift your career path, access to English courses, online training programs, webinars, and workshop
• Healthcare: healthcare medical insurance and healthcare kit (gym, sports nutrition etc.)
• Fun online activities and team-building events
• 18-20 paid time-off days per year, 5 absence-due-to-illness days and up to 60 days of extraordinary medical leave per year

About Company: 

Dev.Pro is a US-based outsource company of people who value high ethical standards and have delivered superior software products since 2011. The rapid growth of the company brings more development opportunities for our specialists, which is key to delivering an exceptional experience to our clients.