Program Manager at Interswitch

Locations: Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan-Oyo
Job Type: Full-Time
Department: Group Shared Technology

About the Position

• We are looking for a Program Manager who will manage the delivery of software development projects with optimal quality in a timely manner. You will act as a liaison officer between all teams required on your projects to ensure requirements are well articulated, analyzed and delivered.
• You should be an excellent servant leader with in experience in project management, preferably in the software development space.

Responsibilities
As a Scrum Master:

• Provide support to team members in the development, testing and deployment processes (e.g. impediment removal, requirement clarification, etc)
• Work with Solution Architects and Product Owners to maintain team's task board and organize team activities
• Act as an evangelist of the agile principles
• Conduct agile events with the required stakeholders on projects

As a Project Manager:

• Provides the project vision to project team members and keeps focus firmly fixed on the same
• Coordinate project planning activities to develop and maintain project plan comprising the project objectives, scope and schedule
• Track project against its schedule and objectives and take corrective actions to address deviations
• Ensure project delivery is timely and meets required quality standard
• Organize and conduct project meetings
• Prepare and present oral and/or written project reports and presentations
• Work closely with required stakeholders to do resource planning
• Proactively identify and mitigate potential or real roadblocks
• Drive adherence to product and project documentation maintenance on confluence
• Escalate project related matters
• Effective and timely use of project management tool to prepare and update project documentations (plans, report, risk, etc)
• Develop project related report as the need arises
• Ensure compliance with engineering processes and standards

As a Business Analyst:

• Work with product owners or managers to articulate product requirements in form of user stories and/or journey
• Define or delineate project scope with stakeholders
• Engage SMEs and wide-ranging stakeholders to discover detailed information/requirements on projects or products
• Ensure a thorough understanding and breakdown of user stories and develop acceptance criteria
• Identify dependencies that may be required to produce project deliverables
• Run through the standard requirement analysis checklist to ensure each standard requirements are identified per project type
• Work with solution architects to produce or document required technical design e.g. architecture, process flows, system designs, use cases and so on
• Confirm or review gathered requirements with product owners
• Ensure requirement documentation is documented in a standard template
• Ensure requirements are prioritized
• Drive development of test cases based on the outcome of requirement analysis/requirement document

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience of working as project manager or other related position
• Significant experience with project management techniques and methods
• Agile project management experience will be a plus
• Good practical experience with project management software (such as Jira, MS Project )
• Strong leadership, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• BSc or BA degree in Engineering or other relevant area; MSc or MA degree will be a bonus