Feature Delivery Manager

Компания "Altenar"

Altenar is an international IT company founded in 2011, with offices in Russia, Malta, Greece, Georgia, the Isle of Man, and Uruguay. We specialize in high-load software development and provide one of the best technology solutions worldwide.

We would like to establish a small team of Feature Delivery Managers to work with our product stakeholders, business analysts and technical teams to ensure we consistently:

• Define solid delivery objectives and acceptance criteria

• Capture iterative scope changes and associated decisions

• Communicate effectively during delivery - the Feature Delivery Manager should support or proxy communication only where it is beneficial to do so, and invoke group calls where it is more efficient

• Influence process improvement through measurement and post-delivery retrospective learning

• Catalyse the distribution of knowledge more effectively

Key Responsibilities:

• Graduate-level education in a related field (ex: CS, Engineering, Operations)
• Experience in leading projects within the context of software development and IT infrastructure and involving multiple teams or parties
• Experience in leading projects through their full lifecycle including risk assessment, tolerance tracking, and delivery of non-functional requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge and proficiency in at least one project management methodology and at least one visualisation/tracking tool (definitely comfortable working with Gantt charts and baselining)
• Experience working with ITIL processes for Service Management
• Experience and/or training in people management, conflict management and negotiation,
• Prior roles as an individual contributor in a technical role
• Must demonstrate patience in establishing relationships with people and their existing relationships with others and with technology
• Must maintain project/delivery documentation and lead the formation of healthy habits by example (where relevant) and by demonstrating its value for the delivery of technical documentation (by the technical teams)
• Must bring strong spatial visualisation/mental visualisation skills to understand the deliverable and help the delivery team achieve the same understanding
• Must be capable of iterative questioning to challenge assumptions and root cause delivery concerns
• Must hold the people assigned to a delivery team accountable for their individual deliverables, and guide them on the relative sequence to adopt between different feature deliverables
• Experience in running meetings for effective outcomes

Experience/skills required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

• Proficiency in the use of Atlassian JIRA and associated plug-ins

• Formal certification as Scrum Master, PRINCE2 practitioner, PMbok or other relevant methodology

• Experience working with distributed teams

Benefits:

• Good compensation;

• Health insurance;

• Gym discount;

• Corporate English lessons;

• Modern comfortable offices in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Vladimir or remote work;

• Monthly compensation for electricity and the Internet;

• Multinational team with experts around the world;

• Participating in professional events and corporate events.