Engineering Project Manager
Remote work / London
£550 per day
Agile Project Manager from a Scrum Master background.
Do you want to work for Europe's leading entertainment company that serves over 22 million customers across five countries. Their business in the UK and Ireland has come a long way since starting out in 1989 and They are not stopping there.
- We want you to have lots of experience of delivering within an Agile framework and would love you to be an evangelist for Agile working in order to help embed this delivery methodology within the team and to help empower and motivate the team to meet their objectives.
- We'd love you to have experience of software development within the network engineering domain and have experience of delivering change in virtualised networks.
- Importantly, you will have a pragmatic results- and delivery-oriented mindset, with a track record of having facilitated project delivery, ideally in industry related to Sky's core products, but this domain experience is not essential.
- We'd love you to be a good communicator and listener, who is able to translate messages and simplify and summarise problems in a straightforward and succinct manner.
- You will have vision, drive, diplomacy and the ability to make things happen in an environment with multiple stakeholders and being able to influence others without direct authority.
- We need you to be a good facilitator who is able to resolve tension and increase collaboration towards shared goals in any situation, and who is able to build effective relationships with a range of individuals across the organisation.
- We want you to be open and transparent in everything that you do. You will always be supported by the delivery or programme managers within the team so knowing when to ask for help is a key attribute we look for in our team.
Essential
- Project Management and associated methods and tools
- Agile Delivery experience
- Stakeholder management
- Risk and Issue management
- Plan management
- Over 5 years of managing projects throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Experience of delivering in Agile methodology
- Software background
- Engineering PM experience
We will want you to:
- Be the single point of contact for all delivery activities for a specific mobile network component
- Facilitate adoption of Agile working practices within the Network Engineering teams and help define and embed best practice for the teams as they undergo a transformation in their ways of working.
- Work with the Network Engineering teams to translate demand into an agreed and prioritised backlog; anticipated that you will work with the teams to facilitate creation of Engineering specific scope, create tasks to deliver this scope with each task having associated acceptance criteria, dependencies and estimates.
- Ensure Network Engineering teams are able to deliver successfully by understanding and clearing impediments and distractions.
- Ensuring appropriate involvement and communication between required members of the Network Engineering teams
- Build collaborative and close relationships with Network Engineering teams who deliver changes on the mobile network component.
- Manage demand from all projects and programmes impacting the specific mobile network component.
Suitable Candidates to submit their CV in the first instance.
