Senior Agile Project Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Nedbank

Nedbank Johannesburg, South Africa

2 days ago

Description

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Consultant

REQ – Thembi Mtshali

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Projects

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team

Job Responsibilities

Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
Ensure project budget are managed within project scope.
Ensure projects are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations.
Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule. Meet project requirements.
Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope.
Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented.
Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle.
Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan.
Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood.
Ensure clients are informed.
Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope.
Ensure sufficient resource allocations.
Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology.
Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation.

Critical Job Requirements

Must have large complex programme / project delivery experience, with delivery across multiple agile teams (squads).
They must have executive stakeholder management experience and be able to put together executive appropriate summarised updates.
Knowledge of the Juristic (CIB, NCB, SBS) environment would be advantageous.
Knowledge of programme delivery into Africa would be advantageous.

Key/ Critical tasks

To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy.
To manage the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects/solutions or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation to realize the business strategy. Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps assure value delivery and helps drive continuous improvement. Hybrid role that balances Agile leadership and project/program management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently. Leveraging the solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning large development programs.

Exposure/Experience

Planning and Organising
Influencing
Decision Making
Work Standards
Applied learning
Customer Orientation
Earning Trust
Built a high performance culture
Built and maintained stakeholder relationship
Designed Workforce Planning Solutions
Improved Processes and Culture
Managed Relationships
Managed Self and Team
Managed budget

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification

Professional Qualification/Honours Degree
Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification

Essential Certifications

PMP or Prince certification.
Programme Management certification (PGMP)

Preferred Certifications

Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification

Minimum Experience Level

10 years experience working in a project environment of large project and or programmes of which 2-3 years management

Behavioural Competencies

Decision Making
Influencing
Planning and Organizing
Work Standards
Applied Learning
Customer Orientation
Earning Trust

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at

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