Feature delivery manager (Project manager) (удаленная работа)

Вакансия: Feature delivery manager (Project manager)

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Company Description:

Altenar is a provider of sportsbook software and services to licensed gaming operators. Ranging from software-only product offers to the provision of a fully-managed sports betting platform stack, Altenar offers proven stability coupled with a flexible and personalised service. Our software is developed and operated in-house, whilst being powered by premium quality data feeds.

What we want to achieve

We build and operate some of the world s best Sportsbook technology. Our teams are diverse and mostly organised by function or specialisation domain. We have healthy atrix communication in place, but need to work on our estimation, delivery capacity measurement and task sequencing to improve the predictability of our feature and platform architecture delivery. Our teams develop the components that make up the functionality of our Platform-as-a-Service and operate it at scale within our own hosting architecture. Feature delivery and platform architecture delivery often go hand-in-hand and require orchestration to meet the demands of our customers.

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

The incumbents will be responsible for bringing visualisation to delivery through the artifacts they instantiate, curate and encourage the maintenance of. They will have the privilege of a complete view of the cross-team delivery pipeline and the ability to influence its effectiveness through their work.

Key relationships of the role

Feature Delivery Managers will take on assignments that have substantial business objective clarity and supporting cases to allow correct delivery. The Business Analysts who provide the starting point to a deliverable, will provide continuous support throughout the delivery of that specific feature. Technical Domain leads are some of the key people Feature Delivery Managers interact with and also provide support to the assigned technical engineers working on delivery.

As a high-profile role, Feature Delivery Managers are regularly involved in the roadmap delivery sequencing and the management of priority changes. Their assessment on the impact and feasibility of delivery priority changes carries a lot of weight.

Feature Delivery Managers help each team plan their sprints and prepare for this by defining the relative scheduling required.

The Feature Delivery Managers will be responsible for the delivery of multiple features at a time by functional teams (development & infrastructure) working together within the context of one platform architecture and supported by one or more Business Analysts.

What qualities and behaviours are required

• 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

What qualities and behaviours are desirable

• Proficiency in the use of Atlassian JIRA and associated plug-ins
• Verbal and written communication skills in any of Russian, Greek, Spanish, Italian
• Formal certification as Scrum Master, PRINCE2 practitioner, or other relevant methodology
• Experience working with distributed teams

Benefits:

• Remote work options (location: Russia, Georgia).
• Opportunities for training and professional development.
• Health insurance for employees and immediate family members.
• A strong sense of community and company culture.
• An international work environment.
• Gym reimbursement after the probationary period.

We value your expertise and look forward to potentially welcoming you to our team. Apply now to join a dynamic and growing company!