Sybrin

Project Manager

Sybrin

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Johannesburg • 🇿🇦 South Africa

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

SDLC

About the role

  • Manage projects from inception to closure, ensuring adherence to time, cost, scope, and quality standards, while ensuring the execution of the project plan and managing squads and people effectively.
  • Oversee project governance, ensuring all processes and standards are followed, develop and maintain a comprehensive communication plan to keep stakeholders informed, manage risks and issues proactively ensuring timely resolution, and ensure scheduling, planning, and coordination of project activities.
  • Monitor and report on financial performance and identify potential cost overruns and propose corrective actions to keep projects financially viable, ensuring projects stay within budget.
  • Build and manage high-performing development teams, including hiring and performance management.
  • Measure and uphold billable utilisation to ensure that project resources are used effectively and efficiently.
  • Assign tasks based on team members' skills and workload, allocate personnel and budget resources to project tasks, and manage project timelines by setting and adjusting deadlines as necessary.
  • Identify and mitigate low-impact risks related to project scope, timelines, or budget and troubleshoot and resolve technical issues that arise during development.
  • Manage project scope creep (client-requested changes) and ensure alignment with initial project goals.
  • Communicate project progress and address concerns from clients, team members, and other stakeholders.
  • Monitor project budgets, identify potential cost overruns, and propose corrective actions.
  • Negotiate project scope, timelines, and budgets with clients, balancing their needs with business objectives.
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet client expectations, contribute to the company's profitability by controlling costs and completing projects efficiently and, empower teams to perform at their best.
  • Supervise and coordinate team members and project tasks and indirectly have oversight of Business Analysts, Quality Assurers, Developers, and Development Leads assigned on projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, IT, Engineering, or related fields.
  • Minimum of 3 Years of hands-on Project Management experience
  • Proficiency in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), understanding various phases such as planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance.
  • Familiarity with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) guidelines or Prince2 methodology, including process groups, knowledge areas, and best practices.
  • Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to manage large-scale software development projects, coordinating multiple teams and aligning them with organisational goals.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written, with a keen ability to interact professionally with clients and colleagues.
Benefits
  • Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) (Certifications in Kanban, Lean, or SAFe are also valuable).
  • Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI), showcasing a comprehensive understanding of project management principles and practices.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Project ManagementSystems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK)Prince2 methodologyBudget managementRisk managementPerformance managementTask allocationCommunication plan development
Soft skills
Problem-solvingAttention to detailCommunicationTeam managementStakeholder managementNegotiationLeadershipAdaptabilityConflict resolutionTime management