Senior Manager: Programme Management
Psybergate
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
We are looking for a Senior Manager: Programme Management to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 6-months contract role.What you will be doing:
- Facilitate the design process of key deliverables and secure authorization from primary stakeholders
- Design, implement and facilitate process to ensure alignment on key deliverables and direction to encourage collaboration and agile delivery between all parties
- Design and implement measures to help the teams on the ART note and track PI objectives, dependencies, impediments, and delivery progress
- Facilitate the building of monitoring tools to monitor and track progress against objectives and delivery progress
- Support the design, integration, and execution of end-to-end tactical enablement strategies across the ART and the supporting infrastructure to drive the collaboration between all parties affected by the ART
- Facilitate the building of integrated enablers to drive seamless delivery of PI objectives
- Facilitate the building and integration of capabilities to enable the execution of the agile train release capability
- Facilitate the design and implementation of service standards for the full agile train release capability
- Define, implement and monitor service level measures for the primary and secondary stakeholders (product owners, management and other stakeholders)
- Implement and drive capabilities and associated measures/analytics to optimise the ART enablement activities
- Facilitates or ensures the facilitation of ART-level synchronisation
- Drive simplicity, agility, innovation when conducting PI planning, inspecting and adapting events on all ART practices and processes.
- Supports the scrum masters in effectively coaching their teams on the effective execution of all other team events such as the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning and Review and similar events
- Drives a culture of relentless improvement, through facilitation of ART level inspect and adapt workshops. Continuously challenges current ways of work to improve delivery, by incrementally improving quality, predictability, flow and value
- Analyse and interpret data to produce detailed reports explaining trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies.
- Support the design of measures that will track daily, weekly and monthly progress/performance against strategy and tactical plans
- Ensure timeous reporting on performance
- Responsible for translating Management Information data and reports and tabling insights gained through studying such integrated business (function) reports to measure success and to realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately
- The effective implementation of and adherence to the risk and control framework associated with service enablement
- Driving the remediation of risk daily where control design or operational execution failed resulting in losses/breaches
- Ensuring that all compliance, regulatory, governance or other risk standards are adhered to by all service providers and other stakeholders
- Completd relevant Degree
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in managing teams and / or significant complex projects.
- 5 - 7 years' practical experience in working in a variety of business areas within IT, including experience as Release Train Manager for cross-functional programmes
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or equivalent
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) certification or equivalent
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certified Release Train Manager certification or equivalent
- Contract interpretation and management skills
- Management of 3rd parties and service providers
- Knowledge of MI Reporting systems
- Working knowledge of the FSP (i.e National Credit Act (NCA)
- Working knowledge of the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle
- Working knowledge of the Agile methodology
- Demonstrated ability to work with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination