Project Manager

The ideal candidate will establish and maintain strong relationships with customer stakeholders, the program manager, and software architect to ensure the team's objectives are met. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing, managing, and executing project plans, including defining scope, schedule, risks, deliverables, and resources. Candidate will oversee and motivate a cross-functional team, collaborate with process audit and compliance teams, set team goals, and contribute to the improvement of project management processes.

Responsibilities:

• Build a close relationship & Liaison with Customer Stakeholders, Program Manager and Software Architect to drive team deliverables and team goals.
• Become an engaging member of Confiz PMO team and help take Project Management to next level of process optimization, delivery excellence and leadership quality.
• Develop manage and execute project plans, defining scope, schedule, risk, deliverables, and resources.
• Use SCRUM or Kanban software development processes. Must be able to switch between these methodologies and should have ability to tailor them according to the project needs.
• Manage, monitor, and motivate the cross functional team assigned to the project.
• Liaison with Process Audit and Compliance teams to ensure projects follow best practices.
• Set team goals, guide the team to perform their best via bi-annual performance review system.
• Knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Knowledge about other methodologies other than Agile-Scrum, so that he can explain other methodologies to motivate the team.
• He should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.
• Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
• Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
• Ability to take and understand the commitment to deliver the product on time.
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
• Familiar with common development practices, Service-oriented environments, and Agile practices

Requirements:

• Hold a BS/MS Computer Science degree from a reputable institution.
• 5~8 years of work experience in reputable Software organizations.
• Past experience of hands-on coding/development in Software Development Projects.
• Excellent English communication, leadership, and presentation skills.
• Must be an excellent people manager, able to lead cross functional teams with respect.
• Knowledge of SCRUM is must. 
• Skilled with tools like JIRA, DevOps.
• Experience in Dynamics365 implementation.
• An easy going and likable personality is a must.
• Familiarity with CMMi level processes will be a plus.

We have an amazing team of 700+ individuals working on highly innovative enterprise projects & products. Our customer base includes Fortune 100 retail and CPG companies, leading store chains, fast-growth fintech, and multiple Silicon Valley startups.

What makes Confiz stand out is our focus on processes and culture. Confiz is ISO 9001:2015 (QMS), ISO 27001:2022 (ISMS), ISO 20000-1:2018 (ITSM) and ISO 14001:2015 (EMS) Certified. We have a vibrant culture of learning via collaboration and making workplace fun.

People who work with us work with cutting-edge technologies while contributing success to the company as well as to themselves. 

To know more about Confiz Limited, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/confiz-pakistan/