NiX is looking for a passionate skilled and motivated Project Manager to join the team.
Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States; Every day the company completes 5 million student journeys moving more passengers than all U;S; airlines combined and delivers reliable quality services for 1100 school districts.
NiX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives; As a result NiX has been selected as a strategic longterm partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55000 employees and millions of people across North America.
Responsibilities:
- Taking full responsibility for project including estimating and planning budgeting backlog management and customer communications
- Establish communication channels with the Clients representatives and provide regular progress reporting
- Managing overall communication during Project Phases
- Working closely with the entire Team on project phases goals
- Execute the changes and risk management
- Manage teams performance appraisals provide feedback on performance and work on goals
- Work with Team Leads and other team members on project delivery analysis
- Resource planning and staffing
- Motivating and developing a project team
- Establishing smooth processes and executing process improvements
- Manage backlog create and populate User Stories perform decomposition and estimation of work with the team
- Facilitate crossproject/program communication and cooperation
- Identify track and resolve dependencies with other projects/programs
- Prepare reporting and release documentation
- Act as integrator of the team with Portfolio in SAFe processes
Requirements:
- Upperintermediate English written and verbal communication skills
- 3 years of proven experience in IT project management (during the last 5 years)
- Successful driving at least two projects handson from initiation to final delivery without supervision
- Excellent knowledge of Agile methodologies SAFe frameworks is a must
- Business Analysis or Data analyst background/experience
- Knowledge/Understanding of basic technical concepts and terminology such as: API queue microservice architecture relational database etc.
Nice to have:
- Proven experience in management of solutionbased/fixedscope/fixedprice projects
- Excellent knowledge of managing crosscultural/crossfunctional/distributed teams
- Experience in managing at least 10 subordinates on multiple projects
- Proven experience in project cost management and Scope/Change management
We offer:
- Flexible working format remote officebased or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program tech talks and trainings centers of excellence and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other locationspecific benefits
Required Experience:
IC