Feature Delivery Manager

Altenar is an international IT company founded in 2011, with offices in Russia, Malta, Greece, Georgia, the Isle of Man, and Uruguay. We specialize in high-load software development and provide one of the best technology solutions worldwide.

We would like to establish a small team of Feature Delivery Managers to work with our product stakeholders, business analysts and technical teams to ensure we consistently:

• Define solid delivery objectives and acceptance criteria

• Capture iterative scope changes and associated decisions

• Communicate effectively during delivery - the Feature Delivery Manager should support or proxy communication only where it is beneficial to do so, and invoke group calls where it is more efficient

• Influence process improvement through measurement and post-delivery retrospective learning

• Catalyse the distribution of knowledge more effectively

Key Responsibilities:

• Graduate-level education in a related field (ex: CS, Engineering, Operations)
• Experience in leading projects within the context of software development and IT infrastructure and involving multiple teams or parties
• Experience in leading projects through their full lifecycle including risk assessment, tolerance tracking, and delivery of non-functional requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge and proficiency in at least one project management methodology and at least one visualisation/tracking tool (definitely comfortable working with Gantt charts and baselining)
• Experience working with ITIL processes for Service Management
• Experience and/or training in people management, conflict management and negotiation,
• Prior roles as an individual contributor in a technical role
• Must demonstrate patience in establishing relationships with people and their existing relationships with others and with technology
• Must maintain project/delivery documentation and lead the formation of healthy habits by example (where relevant) and by demonstrating its value for the delivery of technical documentation (by the technical teams)
• Must bring strong spatial visualisation/mental visualisation skills to understand the deliverable and help the delivery team achieve the same understanding
• Must be capable of iterative questioning to challenge assumptions and root cause delivery concerns
• Must hold the people assigned to a delivery team accountable for their individual deliverables, and guide them on the relative sequence to adopt between different feature deliverables
• Experience in running meetings for effective outcomes

Experience/skills required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

• Proficiency in the use of Atlassian JIRA and associated plug-ins

• Formal certification as Scrum Master, PRINCE2 practitioner, PMbok or other relevant methodology

• Experience working with distributed teams

Benefits:

• Good compensation;

• Health insurance;

• Gym discount;

• Corporate English lessons;

• Modern comfortable offices in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Vladimir or remote work;

• Monthly compensation for electricity and the Internet;

• Multinational team with experts around the world;

• Participating in professional events and corporate events.