Infrastructure Project Delivery Manager

Onsite with Fridays Remote

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We are seeking an Infrastructure Project Delivery Manager who:

• Has a drive to lead.
• Has initiative to perform and inspire others to perform at a high level.
• Pushes themself, pushes others. Makes sure people keep their promises. Stretches the possible.
• Takes ownership of business initiatives and outcomes.
• Builds and fosters relationships required for smooth execution.
• Takes a value driven approach to delivery using the SAFe Agile Framework.
• Can have a bias for action, operates with urgency.
• Can handle high pressure situations and develop viable solutions to problems.
• Is able to operate independently, in thinking, and driving action across multiple teams and organizations to deliver value.

From the client side, we will bring an engaged and supportive leadership team that will invest in you, talented engineering teams to work with, a budget for continual improvement, and a broad group of industry experts who work closely with us on everything we do.Key

What the role will entail:

• Planning, coordinating, and communicating at a team and ART level. Identifying and resolving blockers for the teams. Identifying and mitigating current and future risks to delivery.
• Actively monitoring delivery and identifying areas for continuous improvement.
• Engaging with Business Stakeholders. Understanding their needs, priorities, and concerns.
• Clearly presenting delivery progress to leadership and business stakeholders from feature inception to adoption.
• Balancing refinement activities alongside sprint deliverables to maintaining a healthy backlog.
• Perform project analysis, manage risks, identify, and influence necessary course corrections, creatively solve problems.
• Facilitates daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, and demos, plans projects and releases.
• Understanding the technology landscape, constantly being aware of changes, proactively communicating changes to teams.
• Onboarding resources and staff. Coaches’ teams to achieve higher levels of agile maturity.
• Managing vendor relationships.
• Navigating an ever-changing landscape showing flexibility while working with 60 organizational units.
• Manages several concurrent projects to ensure their on-time delivery according to customer expectations.
• Oversees Jira ticketing system and assigns tasks; and applies innovative approaches, methodologies, and/or techniques while directing projects, programs, and activities.
• Utilizes experience and expert knowledge for establishing and documenting policies and standard operating procedures for the team.

In order to qualify, here are a list of skills we are seeking:

• SAFe, PgMP and/or PMP Certification will be an added advantage.
• Experience with Atlassian suite of tools, specifically Jira and Confluence.
• Experience implementing or working with a Lean Portfolio Management Organization.
• 7 years' experience in managing multiple medium-to-large scale IT Infrastructure projects / programs collaborating with cross functional teams in the financial services industry.
• Agile experience
• Prior Scrum Master exp

Travel Requirements: Low level of domestic U.S. travel required (up to 20% of time)

Education Requirement : Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Behavioral Core Competencies:

Relationship Building, Flexibility, Perseverance, Prioritize Work, Results Oriented and a self-starter