Project Manager (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, SAFe)

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Project Manager (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, SAFe) - Cambridge - 6 months

Project Manager (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, SAFe) required to join a technology company on a 6 month contract based in Cambridge.

Key responsibilities:

* Lead planning and scope definition with delivery teams, working with product owners, scrum masters and teams to plan and sequence iterations.

* Ensure appropriate resource planning occurs ahead of delivery cycle.

* Establish the delivery schedule, ensuring outcomes are defined and tracked.

* Facilitate effort estimation planning to ensure scoping and pre-work before iteration.

* Own budget cost estimation and training of resources and capital costs.

* Prepare documentation to support governance and delivery into operational support.

* Management and tracking of risks and issues, mitigating and escalating where necessary.

* Provide regular monitoring and progress reporting related to delivery.

* Provide visible leadership to delivery teams, help remove impediments.

* Vendor engagement on delivery to ensure accurate tracking and delivery on commitments.

* Point of contact for business leaders/product owners related to delivery.

* Support evaluation review (Lessons learned) to identify improvements.

* Facilitate team ceremonies to ensure team delivery is focused on value-delivery.

* Reporting delivery performance and risk and issues reporting.

Qualifications/Requirements:

* Excellent communication, both verbal and written.

* Ability to manage budget forecasting, actuals related to spend.

* Experience of software & Infrastructure delivery, typically around SAAS & PAAS solutions

* Qualification in Agile DSDM or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Prince2.

* Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.

* Goal-orientated and proven self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity.

* Ability to work in detail, but abstract to the macro as necessary.

* Ability to use JIRA, Confluence, MS Project and Microsoft applications.

Desirable skills:

* Experience of DevOps practices / continuous integration patterns.

* Awareness of Lean practices applied to delivery.

* Previous experience with implementing platforms/applications around property services such as VMS, BMS, Wayfinding, Digital Signage, Access Control and Parking.

If this role is of interest to you please submit your CV in the first instance.