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Introduction

IBM Cloud Computing is a one-stop shop which provides all the cloud solutions & cloud tools the industries need. IBM Cloud portfolio includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offered through public, private and hybrid cloud delivery models, in addition to the components that make up those clouds.

IBM Cloud ensures seamless integration into public and private cloud environments. The infrastructure is secure, scalable, and flexible, providing customized enterprise solutions that have made IBM Cloud the Hybrid Cloud Market leader with our market leading IAAS and PAAS Platforms. The IBM Cloud platform is the public cloud offering from IBM providing services to global enterprises. IBM Cloud is the Cloud for Smarter Business, built on Open Technology with Developer Tools and supports solutions by Industry. We run the services and workloads from Watson, Blockchain, Services, Security, and IoT.

Ready to help drive IBM's success in the Cloud market? This is your chance to research and learn new Cloud related technology products and services, as well as to design and implement quick Cloud based prototypes while advancing your career in leading edge technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for strong Software Project managers who can identify, plan, track, manage and report status of the project deliverables, ensure the development process is defined and adhere to properly for the Cloud platform Service Engineering team at IBM. You should be an experienced project manager, managed large agile engineering team deliverables, have hands on experience with leading development tools, rich experience reporting and project dashboard creation, status update to executives and excellent communication skills. Conduct release management meetings, coordinate between various stake holders to plan releases, Conduct dev/sec ops meetings and maintain release schedules.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Candidates must have experience in multiple Agile project management methodologies, primarily Scrum and Kanban, as well as Waterfall. Candidates should be well versed in continually prioritizing work amongst a diverse, technical portfolio.

The Project Manager will be responsible for prioritising the focus of team members to hit milestones and measurable progress is being made towards strategic objectives. This role will require frequent communication with a diverse set of stakeholders of varying levels of technical proficiency, so a moderate level of knowledge of software development and support is integral to success in the role.

• 8-12 years of high-tech industry experience with a track record of experience in program management or project management.

• Experience in running scrums and scrum of scrums as a scrum master and implementing agile practices in the project/program management

• Creating and maintaining project documentation using existing processes

• Managing progress of multiple concurrent projects and coordinating milestone reviews including supporting hiring of team members

• Create and update weekly status updates to management and stakeholders on progress of all projects in portfolio

• Coordinate milestone Tracking progress of bugs and feature requests in using existing processes

• Working with stakeholders and team management on prioritization of upcoming milestones

• Experience in tools such as Jira, GitHub, Zenhub, knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (1 years’ experience with issue tracking software (Zenhub, Trello, Jira, etc. Moderate knowledge of Git)

• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.

• Ability to create and maintain master project plan in collaboration with all stakeholders, drive periodic meetings to meet the project plan and present the report to senior leadership (Moderate knowledge of project tracking software (OmniPlan, MS Project))

• Ability to identify risks in the early stage, bring it to senior leadership attention and proactively work with internal or dependent teams to resolve the issues.

• Ability to front end the team/program compliance status to senior management and various compliance assessment teams across worldwide.

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team along with excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work in an overlapping shift (4-5 hours of overlap with the USA teams)

• PMP / Prince 2 and Agile Credentials like PMI - ACP or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) are a must

• Comfort in creating and updating processes as team expectations evolve

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Familiar with Cloud technology, Agile Methodology

• Managing progress of multiple concurrent projects and coordinating milestone reviews including supporting hiring of team members

• Create and update weekly status updates to management and stakeholders on progress of all projects in portfolio

• Coordinate milestone Tracking progress of bugs and feature requests in using existing processes

• Working with stakeholders and team management on prioritization of upcoming milestones

• Experience in tools such as Jira, GitHub, Zenhub, knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (1 years’ experience with issue tracking software (Zenhub, Trello, Jira, etc. Moderate knowledge of Git)

• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.

• Ability to create and maintain master project plan in collaboration with all stakeholders, drive periodic meetings to meet the project plan and present the report to senior leadership (Moderate knowledge of project tracking software (OmniPlan, MS Project))