Senior Technical Project Manager at Derivco

Our team pride themselves on setting and maintaining quality standards, strong teamwork and high levels of integrity. We are looking for an individual who will contribute to the further success of the team and add a new dimension to the environment as well as focus on continuous improvement and other efficiencies! We see you nodding – so this is you, right?

Before you say goodbye to your current workmates and figure out the fastest route to our office, (when we finally go back), let’s see if you got what it takes!

Key Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the business, system and technical requirements for multiple projects.
• Have the ability to plan and define the approach and delivery of the project and monitor and track this delivery through the SDLC and lifetime of the project(initiation and planning)
• Be able to elicit the requirements from stakeholders across various levels of the organization, engage professionally with a diverse number of stakeholders (IT and Business).
• implement the business processes and their associated changes across the organization and be able to measure whether the benefits of the project materialized.
• Manage the scope, cost, quality and time of the project with key focus on dependencies, risks and issues.
• Continuously look for process efficiencies and optimizations and implement these across the team and business area(continuous improvement)
• Have the ability to manage end-to-end delivery of medium to large sized with medium to high complexity.
• Provide a mentoring and coaching role to other colleagues in the organization.
• Strategic Planning
• Benefits Realization
• People Management
• Executing, Monitoring and Controlling
• "Operationalize (Pre-Go Live, Go Live and Post Go Live)"
• Project Closure

Key Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification BSc/BCom / Business Diploma (3yrs) / Adv Management Diploma preferable
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
• Excellent Communicator - written and verbal
• Be a Self-Starter, Self-managed with business and technical (IT) knowledge and understanding of the SDLC
• High attention to detail, maintain a standard of accuracy when document requirements Professional stakeholder engagement management and relationship building skills
• Agile experience an advantage
• Line and Performance Management an advantage
• Mentorship an advantage
• Coaching an advantage
• Facilitation an advantage
• "Experience in the end-to-end delivery of large-sized, high complexity projects. "
• Minimum of 6 years of Project Management experience in a software or IT environment
• Expert knowledge of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or IT Delivery Cycle
• Expert knowledge of software or IT project management, MS Projects , JIRA / Work Items , MS Visio, BMC Software/ Confluence ( Advantageous)
• Exposure to multiple PM Methodologies