Technical Project Manager (Software Development background)
Posted 7 days ago by Insight International (UK) Ltd
Negotiable
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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Project Manager with a software development background to lead the overall engagement in Glasgow, UK. The ideal candidate will have expertise in managing the end-to-end delivery of multiple applications, strong client communication skills, and technical knowledge in Pega and cloud migration projects. This role is crucial for driving techno-functional excellence and ensuring successful project delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing the overall project delivery and ensuring adherence to the delivery schedule.
- Preparing delivery schedules, effort, and cost based on client requirements and providing walkthroughs to clients.
- Achieving client sign-off on schedule, effort, and cost presented.
- Providing weekly status reports to stakeholders.
- Ensuring timely project delivery by setting time marks.
- Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.
- Tracking and managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.
- Assisting the product owner in maintaining a well-organized product backlog for upcoming sprints.
- Challenging/addressing architectural solutions and engaging in hands-on discussions with team members to deliver technical requirements in Pega.
Key Skills:
- Solid understanding of project end-to-end delivery.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Experience in managing multiple applications.
- Technical knowledge in Pega and cloud migration projects.
- Strong client communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Domain experience in BFS is a plus.
- 9-12 years of relevant experience.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Technical Project Manager (Software Development background)
Location: Glasgow, UK (Occasional Travel)
Job Type: Contract
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Project Manager to lead the overall engagement. The ideal candidate will have expertise in managing end-to-end delivery of at least 3-4 applications, good client communication skills, stakeholder management ability. Have good technical knowledge in Pega / Pega Cloud and cloud migration projects with the ability to take Architectural decisions and solutioning. Additionally, domain experience in BFS is good to have. The candidate will play a crucial role in driving techno-functional excellence and ensuring successful project delivery.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Managing the overall project delivery and ensure delivery schedule is adhered
- Prepare delivery schedule, effort and cost based on the client requirements and provide * walkthrough of client on the same
- Project Manager will be liable to achieve client sign-off on schedule, effort and cost presented
- Providing weekly status reports to stakeholders
- Ensuring that the project is timely by setting time marks
- Facilitates daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
- Tracks and manages product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down
- Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint
- Should be able to challenge/address architectural solutions and do hands on discussion with the team members to deliver technical requirement in Pega.
Qualifications:
A solid understanding of project end-to-end delivery
Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
Experience: 9 - 12yrs.