Senior Delivery Manager

We are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager will define, scope and manage one or more projects of medium size/complexity and will work with senior leadership, engineering and key stakeholders to ensure technical and/or business objectives are achieved. Typical projects may include the entire lifecycle from requirements through to deployment or specific parts of the lifecycle of a larger project. Typical project complexity/size will 6-12 months duration and involve up to 10 FTEs across one or more locations.

About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments:

• You have 5+ years of IT Project Management experience managing technology projects; 2+ years of experience in agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
• CSM, SAFe, PMP, PSM or SSM certification (preferred not mandatory)
• Proven ability to lead groups and individuals working in different locations and time zones globally.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to drive project planning and execution process and add value beyond just a task-oriented doer or project manager.
• Familiarity with systems development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Proven ability to function in a fast moving and rapidly evolving environment.
• You have 3 years’ experience working with team(s)/project(s) and have a well-understood approach to planning and forecasting at both ticket and project level (including capacity planning, timelines, dependency management).
• You have 3 years’ experience as a good listener with strong mediation and relationship-mending skills who can identify issues in the team dynamics and skill sets and can rectify them.
• You have experience with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

It would be great if you also had:

• Understanding/exposure to Agile transformation within organization.
• Exposure working with multi-cultural, global, and remote teams along with ability to adapt to change.
• Working with development teams on daily basis.
• Detailed knowledge of software development/delivery lifecycle (SDLC) & agile best practices (like DevOps, BDD, CI/CD, …).
• Goals to pursue a PMP/SAFe SM certification.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Lead and coach project teams and drive successful delivery of highest value features.
• Develop schedule that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources, milestones, and project deliverables.
• Lead teams in implementing Scrum in order to maximize velocity. Work with Product Owner to ensure highest value features are delivered at agreed time.
• Actively participate in assisting the team resolving issues and escalate as needed.
• Prepare and conduct periodic project status reports to update project governance teams and executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues
• Manages project execution to achieve highest value project deliverables within the established schedule and budget.
• Track progress on a daily basis through burn up, burn down and velocity tracking. Understand and help manage product back log.
• Advocate of strong and effective project management standards, disciplines and rigor with other Clarivate Analytics team members

What product will you be developing?

You will be a part of the Delivery Team and potentially work with any of the Life Sciences & Healthcare development teams.

About the Team

Your primary team is the Delivery Management Team but in our matrix organization, you will be assigned to one or more Delivery Teams under Life Sciences & Healthcare (Teams working on building a software product and inclusive of all required functions) based on the requirements and business priorities.

Hours of Work

40-hours per week, minimum 2 days in the Bangalore office per week (as per current norms, this may change in future as per company guidelines), permanent full-time position.

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