Expert Agile Project Manager

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the IT PMO Director, the **Agile Project Manager **is responsible for ensuring that the projects are executed in line with all contractual obligations to the client in a professional, cost-effective and timely manner, ensuring that Finastra achieves (or improves upon) the planned financial return from the project; within this objective, you should give the client value for money.

This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within our team. In this highly visible role, you will have significant interaction with product owners and regular contact with senior management.

**Responsibilities & Deliverables**:
Your deliverables will include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Produce and maintain project artifacts aligned with the selected methodology. Developing full-scale project plans and associated communications documents, as required
- Establish effective and appropriate project governance
- Manage project staff and other resources
- Report effectively on project progress, problems encountered and their solutions by means of a project status report and also ad-hoc reports as appropriate
- Direct and manage project from beginning to end.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
- Effectively and timely communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders, and regularly liaise with project stakeholders
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
- Track project milestones and deliverables
- Control project financials through an effective change control process and efficient resources management
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, working with the client and internal project teams.
- Ensure proper risk management by documenting all risks and ensuring effective mitigation strategy. Devise contingency plans as necessary.
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
- Develop or enhance best practices and tools for project execution and management.
- Guide teams to a culture of focus, improving the organization of their work by mentoring them on how to use Scrum practices and adhere to Agile values to align with Finastra’s mission.
- Facilitate all standard Scrum/Agile cadence practices including Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog refinement activities.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution, assisting with internal and external communication with stakeholders, improving transparency, and federating information.
- Continually monitor progress of team members across department boundaries and provide support to engage employees to achieve goals
- Form partnerships across departments to streamline work processes and improve the speed at which the company can respond to and capitalize on opportunities
- Integrate technology into employee workflows to increase the speed and accuracy of changes to improve the results of these work processes, emphasizing continuous improvement
- Collaborate with other departments, individual contributors, and management to enhance communication and transparency.
- Identify roadblocks and guide the team to remove the impediments by challenging the status quo or right person to remove the impediment, escalate issues to expedite process correction

**Required skills and experience**:

- 5+ years of recent experience in a similar role
- Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
- PMP certification preferred
- PMI ACP certification desired
- Experience in implementation and support of complex enterprise systems
- Thorough understanding of project management methodologies and tools
- Customer driven and have the ability to work within a team environment
- Strong organization and presentation skills
- Proficiency in English
- Experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paring, Automated Testing, Agile games
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Self-starter, with the ability to balance tasks with changing priorities and successful task prioritization
- Strong decision-making skills. Able to analyze different options and make a clear recommendation
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), and mentoring skills with a passion for working in highly c