Project Manager (technical background) (offline)

Project Description:
Luxoft is looking for a strong project manager with a technical background to work with the Asset Performance Management domain of business. We already have a team with TLs working on different projects from the same domain of one client + we're launching r&d project from the same pipeline.
Responsibilities:
Delivery
• Focus on Customer satisfaction and delivery, managing customer's expectations
• Ensuring work pipeline for managed teams
• Tracking delivery status for ongoing features
• Tracking teams performance and issues
• Raising delivery risks to customer and negotiate options
• Drive implementation of lean key processes across teams
• Ensuring sharing of best practices/business domain knowledge between teams
• Identifying process inefficiencies and drive solutions

Reporting
• SLAs tracking
• Preparation of status reports, ad hoc reports development
• Time tracking (timesheets)
• Documentation preparation

People management
• Be the local people manager. This means engagement with all people on a regular basis - provide updates and propose changes.
• Monitor load balancing across individuals together with the team leads and building up of cross-application know-how. Identify cases for job rotation
• Organization of training, courses, customer visits, team buildings
• Vacation/Day Offs/Absence requests coordination

Other
• New hire activities
• New-joiners on-boarding and induction
• Solving day to day and ad-hoc administrative tasks
• Management meetings organization, meeting minutes
Mandatory Skills:
- min 4 years of project management experience;
- experience with management of distributed teams is a must
- at least one project of 10+ people ;
- technical background in software development (Java \ JS) or Test automation or DevOps is a must (candidate should be up-to-date with recent technologies and should be in a position to hold deep technical discussions and propose solutions);
- experience with Agile-based projects is a must;
- experience with people management is a must;
- advanced spoken and written English is a must;
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- experience of managing multiple teams is a big plus;
- experience of managing 15 - 20+ people is a plus;
- experience with fixed price project is a plus;
- proven experience with crisis management - is a big plus
- Agile certifications like CSM, IC-Agile in Delivery, Facilitation, Product Ownership is a plus;

About Luxoft

Luxoft is a high-end application outsourcing provider of choice and a trusted technology advisor to Global 2000 and medium-sized growth companies that apply compelling technologies to obtain leadership positions in their respective markets.
Luxoft today finds the Best talents, proposes career growth & employment benefits. Our teams are involved in high complicity & innovative projects for the Top leaders companies around the Globe.

Company website:
https://career.luxoft.com/locations/ukraine/

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https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/luxoft/