Job responsibilities:

Supports project management [supervised by accountable PO]: 

• completes project administration tasks 
• completes project management tasks: 
  • managing parts of backlog and sprint planning 
  • conducting project team meetings 
  • support collaboration within internal project team [developers, admins] 
  • monitoring project parameters [standing, budget etc.] 
• participates in meetings with the customer technical teams (training, handovers, requirements gathering, etc.)  
• shadowing PO in day-to-day project management activities 
• scope out a project based on business requirements and achievable benefits,  
• participate in the envision and planning of the project, in many cases he/ she creates FDD, TDD, HLD, Project Plan 
• estimates the effort required to deliver a project based on a statement of work 
• leads small (2-3 ppl.) delivery team and is responsible for delivery within agreed hours budget 
• acts as Technical Lead, leads technology decisions, facilitate and articulate alternatives 
• supervises technical quality of delivery  
• resolves delivery issues in all phases of the project 
• communicates efficiently potential risks, blockers to respective project owners and customer 
• leads meetings with the customer technical teams (training, handovers, requirements gathering, etc.)  
• orchestrating collaboration within project team [incl. customer IT/ business] 
• works on-site to ensure proper solution design and deployment   

Completes tasks in project: 

• completes tasks and sets priorities without or with minimal supervision 
• estimates the effort required to complete own work 
• breaks down project scope into smaller items (Features > PBIs) 
• prepares input for project documentation (Architecture and Design, Vision and Scope documents) 
• executes project proof of concepts 
• performs solution handover 
• performs project UAT,  training/knowledge session 
• performs solution hand-over and signs proof of execution,  

Sales support: 

• breaks down business requirements into the technical specification 
• prepares input for offers (SOW, WBS) 

Requirements:

Technical skills: 

• Min. 4+ years of experience in developer, architect or consultant; 
• Min. 2+ years of experience in Azure DevOps; 
• Min. 2+ years of experience in working with Agile; 
• Ability to prepare Azure DevOps implementation plan based on a given software development process; 
• Has rich experience with Azure DevOps 
• Knows other software development approaches and can speak about their pros and cons; 
• Knows DevOps practices; 
• Can define software development process based on requirements and facilitate and articulate alternatives; 
• Can prepare software development model documentation; 
• Can map software development process onto Azure DevOps and facilitate and articulate improvement points; 
• Speaks fluent English 

Soft skills: 

•  Good presentation and communication skills,   
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical issues; 
• Ability to lead training sessions; 

Personal traits (what we value):   

• Extreme ownership of project and tasks,  
• Self-managed, executor, highly organized,   
• Not afraid of challenges,   
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills,   
•  Task prioritization,   
• Honesty, responsibility, and reliability,   
• Commitment to step out of comfort zone and constantly works on improving soft and hard skills. 
• Works on flexible hours; 

Nice to have: 

• MCP certification; 
• Scrum.org certification;