Head of Software Development - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Onpassive

Description

The Role
Purpose of this role is to manage the day-to-day tasks, product delivery, and the project's overall success.

The Agile project manager ensure the monitoring and reporting on project progress, prioritizing, and assigning tasks, and maintaining a strong team culture and continuous improvement within the team.

In this role, Agile Project Manager manages multiple software products and projects in an Agile/Scrum development environment. - Leads Agile/Scrum teams in a multi-product software development environment. - Facilitate team meetings, such as Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Refinements, Iteration Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives and ensure effectiveness. - Assist with the implementation of established project management methodologies and governance standards aligned with the PMO's objectives. - Managing day-to-day operational activities and respective reporting to the PMO and other stakes.

- Ensure that there is a positive climate within the organization where resources are added value in delivering projects by striving for excellence and contributing to the achievement of the company's strategic goals.

- Provide up-front identification of project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies. - By working with the product team, ensure the sponsor's business requirements are clearly defined and documented. - Maintaining a collaborative process and removing impediments for the scrum team. - Providing training, mentoring, and support to teams to adhere to agile values, principles, and practices. - Providing organizations and teams with project management expertise on a variety of topics. - Coaching the team on the most effective ways to refine their backlog and create user stories. - Assuring Product Backlog items are properly/clearly scoped and clearly defined for the Scrum Team. - Support and agree with the Product Owners on short
- and long-term release planning and maintain a healthy work backlog.

• Ensure team understands and maintains commitment to the Definition of Done (DoD).
• Provide support to the product team in developing the backlog for iteration planning and PI.
• Resolve conflicts among team members and ensure full harmony between the product, development, QA, and release teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Regularly perform risk management to minimize project risks and escalate wherever required.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration with all stakeholders.
• Review and ensure that the project team updates the JIRA system promptly and makes effective use of it.
• Participate in the planning and facilitation of scrum events, meetings, and decisionmaking processes.
• Monitoring and assisting teams in making improvements to their performance.
• Organizing demos and testing of products and systems.
• Maintain a close tracking on all projectrelated tasks, issues, risks, and actions.
• Plan and model crossteam dependencies to ensure that overall product/project plans and timelines are well understood.
• Providing regular status reports to stakeholders in accordance with PMO guidelines.
• Continually coach/train teams to follow project management methodologies and to make use of unified tools/templates, such as JIRA, to keep them organized and productive.

Requirements:

• Indepth knowledge of project management methodologies, including risk management, issue management, assumptions management, and change control processes.
• Must have a good understanding of SDLC processes. Technical product understanding and knowledge is an added advantage.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is required.
• Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master or equivalent agile experience preferred.
• Ability to work with a variety of products/projects as required by the business.
• Having experience in process modeling, workshop facilitation, and business analysis 3+ years of experience as a software project manager, scrum master or in a related role.
• Strong working knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Knowledge and understanding of Scaled Agile ceremonies such as Program Increment Planning and Scrum of Scrums.
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills using various reporting tools.
• Ability to handle multiple projects at the same time.
• Excellent knowledge of JIRA and other known project management tools.
• Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management methods is a must.
• Excellent people management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.

About the company
ONPASSIVE is an IT company solely focused on building a total business solution. The organization aims to bring innovation, deliver value, and maximize business potential with less effort and more impact. ONPASSIVE offers expert business solutions by augmenting