N-iX is looking for a passionate, skilled, and motivated Project Manager to join the team.
Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States; Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U;S; airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts.
N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives; As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America.
Responsibilities:
- Taking full responsibility for project execution, including estimating and planning, budgeting, backlog management and customer communications
- Establish communication channels with the Client's representatives and provide regular progress reporting
- Managing overall communication during Project Phases
- Working closely with the entire Team on project phases goals
- Execute the changes and risk management
- Manage team’s performance appraisals, provide feedback on performance and work on goals
- Work with Team Leads and other team members on project delivery analysis
- Resource planning and staffing
- Motivating and developing a project team
- Establishing smooth processes and executing process improvements
- Manage backlog, create and populate User Stories, perform decomposition and estimation of work with the team
- Facilitate cross-project/program communication and cooperation
- Identify, track and resolve dependencies with other projects/programs
- Prepare reporting and release documentation
- Act as integrator of the team with Portfolio in SAFe processes
Requirements:
- Upper-intermediate English written and verbal communication skills
- 3+ years of proven experience in IT project management (during the last 5 years)
- Successful driving at least two projects hands-on from initiation to final delivery without supervision
- Excellent knowledge of Agile methodologies, SAFe frameworks is a must
- Business Analysis or Data analyst background/experience
- Knowledge/Understanding of basic technical concepts and terminology such as: API, queue, microservice architecture, relational database, etc.
Nice to have:
- Proven experience in management of solution-based/fixed-scope/fixed-price projects
- Excellent knowledge of managing cross-cultural/cross-functional/distributed teams
- Experience in managing at least 10 subordinates on multiple projects
- Proven experience in project cost management and Scope/Change management
We offer:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits