Agile Project Managers

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About the Role:

We're looking for exceptional agile project managers to join our world class team, also known as: "Scrum Master", "Team Manager" or "Development Manager" in other companies!

At Redgate, it’s the project managers who make it all hang together. Building top-notch, ingeniously simple products is difficult and our project managers are the ones who know how to harness the talents of the amazing people in their team to make that happen.

You Will:

- Use your agile PM skills to lead one of our small teams to deliver a stream of releases for our portfolio.

- Have strong leadership skills to keep the team motivated, excited and focused on product quality.

- Focus on delivery and engaging with customers and users to maximise the benefits we can deliver to them.

- Ensure the team are able to reach sensible decisions quickly and effectively with minimal stress.

- Ensure that working software is delivered frequently and customer issues are addressed quickly.

- Have effective communication and collaboration skills.

On a day-to-day basis you’ll:

- Act as facilitator to the team, scheduling and supporting stand-ups, iteration reviews and planning activities.

- Follow a mix of Scrum, XP and Kanban with a selection of lean practices (such as A3s etc.)

- Adapt and improve these processes to serve the team, project and company as best fits.

Essential/Desired Skills and Experience:

- Strong coaching and mentoring skills and an interest in helping people develop their skills

- Project planning and reporting

- Project scope control and backlog management

- Risk management

- Resolving technical debt or working with legacy codebases

- New product development and release experience

- Product development, release and maintenance experience

- Experience of continuous delivery or a frequent release cadence

- Experience with managing various key people (stakeholders) around the business

- Significant industry experience in a leadership role on a variety of software projects.

- Prior experience working on agile projects/strong demonstrable understanding of Agile Project Management.

- Run at least 3 projects as an agile Project Manager/Scrum Master, preferably with a small co-located team.

- Knowledge of bug tracking systems, release management and ideally source control and CI servers.

- Relevant professional qualifications and/or Higher education (university degree 2:2 or better) would be beneficial but not essential.

Benefits:

- A great benefits package.

- A commitment to your continuous learning and development.

- Salary is negotiable, depending on experience (please tell us your current salary in your covering letter).

- You'll work about 40 hours a week, with flexible work time.

- We're based in Cambridge, UK

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Please Note: To make your application stand out, tell us about the last epiphany you had about managing software projects and give an example of how you'd retrospectively apply this knowledge and If you don't see yourself as fitting quite into one of these descriptions but still think you'd be a valuable Project Manager for Redgate, then please apply and tell us what we're missing in your covering letter.

We look forward to hearing from you!