Software Project Manager

Software Project Manager - 1 day p/week in the Cardiff Office, the rest can be remote

We're looking for a skilled Software Project Manager well-versed in Agile methodologies to oversee project delivery for our clients Business Services software teams.

Your role will involve managing multiple projects, ensuring effective communication and problem-solving, and fostering collaboration across the organisation.

Software, Agile, Jira, Excel and Confuence, strong stakeholder management and communication skills needed 

Responsibilities

• Support 2-3 cross-functional agile product development teams as they efficiently deliver features and exciting capabilities (teams are usually between 4 – 8 members, depending on the deliverables)
• Work closely with the Software Development Lead and Product Owner to ensure that the teams remain closely synchronised and upcoming features are well planned
• Ensure project resources and budgets are tracked and kept up to date.
• Develop and distribute timely status reporting with key metrics to appropriate stakeholders.
• Create, manage and share delivery plans, providing visibility of progress
• Own and manage dependencies, ensuring the timely resolution, mitigating where needed or escalating where missed dependencies will impact the teams delivery.
• Identify project risks & issues, escalating where appropriate in a timely manner; ensure impacts are communicated so all parties are aligned; partner with project stakeholders to resolve issues and mitigate project impacts
• Make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and procedures
• Ensure timely use of project and technology tools to help drive accountability.

Desirable Skills and Attributes

·         Experience working with JIRA; including generating dashboards, and bespoke filters.
·         Experience working with matrixed/shared teams
·         Experience working with MS Office and Atlassian tools
·         Experience in a Scrum Master role
·         Certified Scrum Master
·         Project governance certification
·         Participation in the project management community