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Technical Project Manager

  • Location: Singapore
  • Salary: Negotiable per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 4 years ago

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

We are working with an exciting health tech start-up who is continuously growing with acquisitions and staff hires. This company is now looking to bring on an urgent Technical Project Manager with a preference for a Scrum Master.

The Scrum Master chief responsibility is to effectively and efficiently manage the development sprints from planning to execution and to review in an agile development environment. Your role will consist of the following;

  • Running daily scrums, managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement documentation, managing support tickets and unblocking barriers to keep the team moving.
  • Be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the engineering, customer success and senior management teams.

Ideal Candidate

  • Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.
  • Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases.
  • Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.
  • Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates.
  • Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional).
  • Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance.
  • Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks.
  • Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
  • Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.
  • Implement and support principles, rules and processes.
  • Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow.
  • Maintain team data in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Confluence , etc.) to support estimates and execution.
  • Presents high level project readouts for senior management.
  • Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope.
  • Manage other special projects as assigned.

Key Criteria

  • Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints.
  • Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
  • Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment
  • Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
  • Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
  • Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
  • Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams' needs
  • Solid experience working with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
  • Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
  • Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive level audience
  • Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
  • Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
  • Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email
  • Self-motivated, organized

If you are interested in exploring this role further, please call 6797 8364 and as for Simon Ackland for a confidential discussion.

More exciting opportunities may be found on the Argyll Scott website at www.argyllscott.com

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