SW Delivery Project Manager

Introduction

At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Project Manager, you will play a key role in the success of the IBM TEL SW delivery organization. Project Managers in this organization help with the design, building, and development of the software engineers in this squad.

As a Project Manager, you have to ensure that you are running scrum meetings, updating management of proper status, including velocity and any improvements the team can make. As a Project Manager, you are responsible for ensuring infrastructure updates are handled timely and risks appropriately highlighted and mitigated.

You will be asked to help with the support of the service by ensuring that the engineers have the right training, education and proper tools to help solve any customer related issues.

To maintain competitive advantage, project managers must be able to work quickly and produce high-quality status and ensure that they are bridging any gaps between various dependencies as well as bringing the proper awareness to any blockers to upper management.

Working across tribes and other organizations is key, being able to speak on some technical pieces of the project is also key.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 6-9 years of high-tech industry experience with a track record of experience in program management or project management.
• Experience in running scrums and scrum of scrums as a scrum master and implementing agile practices in the project/program management
• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.
• Experience Project Managing large scale and complex projects
• Experience project managing large program implementation
• Ability to create and maintain master project plan in collaboration with all stakeholders , drive periodic meetings to meet the project plan and present the report to senior leadership
• Ability to identify risks in the early stage, bring it to senior leadership attention and proactively work with internal or dependent teams to resolve the issues.
• Ability to front end the team/program status to senior management and work with teams across worldwide locations.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team along with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven track record on increasing the velocity of deliverables
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Managing software delivery projects
• Familiarity with SW projects life cycle

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