Delivery Manager sought to lead medium-sized projects, collaborating with senior leadership, engineering, and stakeholders to achieve technical and business objectives.
NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, providing cloud, data, and applications solutions.
Job Description
The Delivery Manager will define, scope, and manage one or more projects of medium size/complexity, working with senior leadership, engineering, and key stakeholders to ensure technical and/or business objectives are achieved.
- Lead and coach project teams to deliver highest value features.
- Develop schedules that support business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources, milestones, and project deliverables.
- Implement Scrum to maximize velocity.
- Work with Product Owner to ensure highest value features are delivered at agreed time.
- Participate in resolving team issues and escalate as needed.
- Prepare and conduct periodic project status reports to update project governance teams and executive management on progress, risks, and issues.
- Manage project execution to achieve highest value project deliverables within established schedule and budget.
- Track progress through burn up, burn down, and velocity tracking.
- Understand and help manage product backlog.
Requirements
- 12+ years of IT Project Management experience managing technology projects.
- 2+ years of experience in agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
- CSM, SAFe, PMP, PSM or SSM certification (preferred not mandatory).
- Proven ability to lead groups and individuals working in different locations and time zones globally.
- Very good experience in managing Banking Domain projects.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to drive project planning and execution process and add value beyond just a task-oriented doer or project manager.
- Familiarity with systems development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Proven ability to function in a fast moving and rapidly evolving environment.
- 3 years' experience working with team(s)/project(s) and have a well-understood approach to planning and forecasting at both ticket and project level (including capacity planning, timelines, dependency management).
- 3 years' experience as a good listener with strong mediation and relationship-mending skills who can identify issues in the team dynamics and skill sets and can rectify them.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
About NTT DATA Services
NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, providing cloud, data, and applications solutions.
We are committed to our clients' long-term success and creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees.