We are looking for a Delivery Manager to join our Shared Platform Team in Bangalore, India. This is an amazing opportunity to work with, typically, one big development team, or within two medium-sized teams, including newly formed or challenging teams. As a Delivery Manager, you will strive to improve the flow of work on the team, track issues, dependencies, risks and drive continuous review and improvement. At times, you will be asked to effectively and independently manage end-to-end medium-sized projects (effort range of hundreds of person-days). The Delivery Manager skillset includes a good understanding of technical practices, Agile/Lean schools of thought, how to use metrics to drive change and using Jira to lead the team.
About You – experience, education, skills, and accomplishments
- At least 3 years of experience coming from either:
- Project Management knowledge and experience, including Agile methodologies, demonstrated as part of/within current/previous role(s) and/or
- You have exposure to technology and software development environments (you have worked within the Software Development Life Cycle).
- At least 2 years’ experience working with team(s)/project(s) that have a well-understood approach to planning and forecasting at both ticket and project level.
- At least 1 years' experience with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
It would be great if you also had . . .
- Understanding/exposure to Agile transformation within organization.
- Exposure working with multi-cultural, global, and remote teams along with ability to adapt to change.
- Working with development teams on daily basis.
- Detailed knowledge of software development/delivery lifecycle (SDLC) & agile best practices (like DevOps, BDD, CI/CD, …).
- You are fluent in understanding, measuring, and improving outcome metrics of the team and are hands-on with Jira and project & board administration.
- PMP certification would be a plus.
What will you be doing in this role
- Enables team in scrum development and product releases according to roadmaps for delivery
- Facilitation of scrum ceremonies, including release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review and ensuring full team engagement.
- Facilitate technical coordination between scrum teams by participating in the “scrum of scrums” and proactively coordinating between inter-related work teams.
- Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to maintain backlog health in preparation for execution and guide Product Owners and Scrum teams in Minimum Viable Product (MVP) discussions.
- Guide teams in delivering effective, quality source code in alignment with defined architecture and also the scrum team on how to use Scrum best practices.
- Monitor and track defects to ensure quality deliverables and protect the team from external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity
- Anticipate, addresses and negotiate potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistical challenges)
- Administer metrics tracking and other duties on behalf of the team
- Educate and drive adherence to the scrum principles across agile delivery teams.
- Enforcement of the core agile and related practices, such as test driven development, unit test coverage, code reviews, continuous integration, simple design, and refactoring.
- Continuous evaluation of budget/burn-rate, estimation to completion AND reporting throughout project lifecycle.
About the Team
Our Shared Platform team’s mission is to enable Clarivate’s business lines to bring their ideas to market more quickly, with higher quality, to create better outcomes for our customers. Our team sits centrally within Clarivate and creates capabilities, frameworks, and best practices that power our customer-facing products. We work collaboratively with our squads to generate solutions and design the technical approaches.
Hours of Work
- Full time
- 45hrs/work
- Hybrid mode
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