24 Oct
Ioco
Johannesburg
SUMMARY:
Our client looking for an Agile Programme Manager to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for the overall planning, governance, and successful delivery of Software and Business projects/epics into the business and will be reporting to our CEO.
The candidate must have practical experience of having managed larg...
POSITION INFO:
Our client looking for an Agile Programme Manager to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for the overall planning, governance, and successful delivery of Software and Business projects/epics into the business and will be reporting to our .
The candidate must have practical experience of having managed large deliverables (Software and Business implementations)
in an agile environment.
What you’ll do:
- Liaise and work with the various stakeholders (Including clients) and Business Unit Executive Heads to align the objectives/outcomes of the assigned programme with the Businesses overall strategy and
- Drive programme priority across business
- Guide business units on resourcing and structure across Projects/epic.
- Ensures all Projects/Epics have a clear benefit hypothesis / statement and clear acceptance
- Manage the Programme approval and prioritisation
- Align Programme Deliverables
- Coordinate and synchronize Projects/epic-related activities with all
- Manage the Programme
- Manage the Programme Risk
- Defining the programme governance (controls)
- For Software Projects, collaborate with the Software Product Management and System and Solution Architects/
to decompose the project into features and prioritize the features of Agile Release Train (ART) * Manage Program Increment (PI) Planning, System Demos, and other SAFe
- Continuous coaching of SAFe for roll out across additional business
- Understand and report on the progress of the Projects/epics MVP deliverables with key
- Continually assesses the viability of the Projects/epic, leading indicators and the outcomes defined for the
- Working closely with Project Managers/Scrum Masters for projects within the
- Working closely with Test Managers for projects within the
Your expertise:
- 10+ years in Project Management (At least 5 in managing Agile Projects).
- Experience in managing projects with both physical and digital
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework Portfolio Management is
- Experience with Office 365 (Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and Excel).
- Experience with tools like JIRA, MS DevOps,
- Experience with Design Thinking tools like Miro, Figma,
- Experience with DevOps and increasing Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment maturity is advantageous
Qualifications required:
- Relevant tertiary
- Agile Project Management Certification (preferably CPAPM or SAFe).
Skills and attributes:
- Deep understanding of iterative product development methodologies - such as SAFe and scrum
- Ability to work with and influence
- Strong planning, communication (written and verbal), presentation, negotiation, facilitation
- Strong leadership and management
- The ability to manage project/product
- The ability to coach business units to manage resource
- The ability to find innovative ways to resolve
- Project Cross Skills would be advantageous (Change Management,
Test Analyst, Business Analyst etc.).
Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Permanent Position
- Location: Remote or (at the Head Office in Johannesburg)
▶️ Agile Programme Manager
🖊️ Ioco
📍 Johannesburg