Job Opportunities at Expleo Group

Overview

• To manage and deliver medium projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed. Projects could be associated with any discipline e.g. property, engineering, information technology, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will play an active role in providing mentorship and coaching on agile best practices to junior staff. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable

Responsibilities

• Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals.
• Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
• Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple divrse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs · Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers· Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
• Manage project budget within project scope
• Deliver projects on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
• Ensure management of scope including coverage of client requirements and based on estimations.
• Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule.
• Meet requirements by providing advice to clients on the most appropriate Project management approach, Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles and define the level of participation in project, map their communication needs and manage stakeholder engagement strategies through the project plan.

Qualifications

• Project Management qualification or certification (CAPM, PMP, SCRUM) or;
  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• Scrum Master certification and experience is essential
• SAFe certification and experience is essential

Skills

• Excellent communication skills. Uses diplomacy and assertiveness as required in communication with external and internal stakeholders;
• Be the single point of contact among project stakeholders;
• Is well experienced in influencing business user decision making and direction. Takes time to establish underlying needs of business beyond those initially expressed;
• Must be able to conform with methodologies and processes

Experience

• Project management experience within a Banking/Financial Services environment is preferred.
• Experience managing projects in an Agile environment

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• The ideal candidate directs and manages the full project life cycle, setting standards for assignments and applications. Pivotal consulting role in providing analysis of the existing practices of the projects across the organisation and making recommendations for improvements. Specialised in one area of business management/domain providing effective management to teams and giving guidance to others and key business users.

Responsibilities

• Work to educate clients on the best practices in relation to their specific industry and key business requirements.
• Manage multiple client engagements simultaneously if required. Pivotal to problem definition and discovery of the overall solution and guide teams on project processes and deliverables.
• Work in partnership with the Management team, create the strategic plan and implement new processes and approaches to achieve it.
• Actively lead a successful team in line with the strategic plan.
• Guide and support the professional development of specialist team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Has achieved a formal certification as a Scrum Master, Kanban Lead, Lean Six Sigma certification or similar Agile approach
• Achieved a formal certification in SAFe®

Desirable:

• Management qualification or relevant years of experience
• Knowledge of MS SharePoint
• Knowledge of financial processes

Skills

General:

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client-facing skills, as an expert in field experience of influencing client decision making and direction. Takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Applies insight, originality and a broad perspective to generate revolutionary technical solutions.
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills. Maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions, and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

Technical:

• Proven experience in leading multiple teams in agile software delivery approaches, at least 2 to 3 years real experience as an Agile Coach.
• Proven experience in the use of scaled agile frameworks.
• Proven experience operating at C level in creating Agile Strategy and Solutions.
• Proven evidence of Coaching skill development through experience and/or formal certification.
• Demonstrates Lean Thinking and an Agile Mind-set in how they work internally and externally.
• Proven experience in conducting Agile Health-checks for clients and presenting the findings to clients.
• Experience in the creation and delivery of Agile Training courses to clients
• Has experience of multiple client engagements and can manage multiple client relationships.
• Actively involved in the Agile community (Locally or Globally) through publications, speaking events or facilitating community events.
• Strong theoretical knowledge in business consulting methodologies, applying standards and specialist consulting expertise to deliver whilst providing effective management to teams.
• Extensive application/technology and domain knowledge and has recognised expertise in business consulting including participating in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
• A proven record in being responsible for investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information management, practices, procedures, and organisation change.
• Extensive experience with all stages of the product development lifecycle (concept to launch).
• Strong knowledge of new and emerging technologies based on own area of expertise.
• Experience in managing the change control procedure. Can recommend and advocate substantive process enhancements and assess both internal and external implications.
• Experience in diagnosing problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probing underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Experience in advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific solutions and identifying areas to add value.
• A proven record in collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, in the conduct of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.

Desired Skills

• Proven track record of strategic transformations using SAFe® principles and practices within organisations together with proven evidence of coaching skill development through experience and/or formal certification

Experience

Management:

• Good people management skills. Acts as a role model for continuous learning and development, challenges others to reflect and learn.
• Experience of managing people and creating an environment that celebrates both successes and failures.
• Good self management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looking for ways to beat previous standards.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.

Budget:

• Ability to manage own expenses and ensure adherence of others to the expense policy.
• Proposes project specific requirements to be included in the budget.
• Proposes investments to be made in the POC, R&D, tools and technologies.
• Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off.

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• The ideal candidate works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or coordinating the work of others. Maintains the status of the project and monitors the activities of team members, leading projects using available frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals. Senior Professional working as a member of consulting services organisation with a customer focused approach using different software solutions to provide expertise in the particular domain.

Responsibilities

• Leads Business Agility projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
• Fully understand the capabilities and limitations of the technical environments and translates business requirements into a functional and technical implementation
• Keeps informed on business data and implements solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes.
• Co-ordinates the information gathering and reporting process, reviewing trends and comparing to expectations. Identifies relationships and linkages, anticipates issues and identifies root causes and effects.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous improvement and work across teams to achieve group goals.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Achieved a formal certification as a Scrum Master, Kanban Lead, Lean Six Sigma certification or similar Agile approach
• Achieved a formal certification in SAFe®

Desirable:

• Project management knowledge
• Additional course or certification in Business Consulting
• Certified functional consultant in any one specific domain

Skills

General:

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client- facing skills. Takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Has an innovative approach. Develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Excellent communication skills. Maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions, and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives

Technical:

• Proven experience in leading multiple teams in agile software delivery approaches, at least 12 to 24 months real experience as a Scrum Master.
• Proven experience in coaching development teams (including distributed teams) who are new to an agile software delivery approach.
• Demonstrates Lean Thinking and an Agile Mind-set in how they work internally and externally.
• Actively involved in the Agile community through participation, publications or speaking events.
• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in business consulting methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge. Has practical experience of and is proficient with tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Strong understanding of the business consulting lifecycle and experience with all stages of the product development lifecycle (concept to launch).
• Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing guidance and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational and interpersonal problems.
• Experience in providing guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues.
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Is skilled at co-ordinating the information gathering and reporting process, reviewing trends and comparing to expectations.
• Experience and track record of successful contribution to delivery utilising multiple project management methodologies / framework, tools and techniques.

Desired Skills

• Proven track record of operational knowledge to embed SAFe® principles and practices within delivery teams together with coaching abilities.

Experience

Management:

• Good people skills. Experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encourages mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering
  learning interventions.
• Renowned as an effective coach and sounding board.
• Good self management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and
  looking for ways to beat previous standards.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.