Technical Project Manager
Job Details
permanent
Nigeria
Sabi
06.01.2024
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About Us
Sabi is Africa’s leading provider of
commercial infrastructure for the distribution of goods and
services. Its platform enables and empowers the most
underserved merchants in the world, allowing agents,
merchants, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to
expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using
Sabi’s technology rails. These rails provide access to
supply, logistics, business tools, data insights and
financial services.
This
could mean ensuring a great assortment of low-priced goods is
available to them, providing a way for them to manage
inventory, or facilitating finance. Our aim is to understand
the informal economy better than anyone and help them grow in
ways they haven’t before.
Our Values
- Excellence - Be the Best. Highest standards.
Consistently.
- Value Focused -
Make sure we give users the best value. All the time.
- Big minds - Innovate. Think big. Be
open. Don’t be petty. No ego. No castles.
- Knuckle down - Do the work. Get your
hands dirty. Deliver
- Kindness - Be
considerate. Life is stressful enough
- Ownership - Everything is your job. Take
responsibility. Drive it.
- Simplicity
- Strip it down. Get to the essence.
Job Purpose
The Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master’s chief
responsibility is to effectively and efficiently manage the
development sprints from planning to execution and review in an agile
development environment. The role will include running daily scrums,
managing the product backlog, collaborating on requirement
documentation, managing support tickets and unblocking barriers to
keep the team moving. You will be responsible to communicate and
collaborate primarily with the engineering, customer success and
senior management teams.
Job
Responsibilities
- Facilitates daily
stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration
retrospective.
- Manage the engineering development
projects and facilitates sprint releases.
- Create or
analyze business requirements documents and project timelines.
- Guides team in time estimating practices and
facilitates team estimates.
- Drive team iteration
execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects.
the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are
evaluated/intentional).
- Manage project conflicts,
challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations
running at a high performance.
- Work with the team
leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks.
- Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams
continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity.
- Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and
implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of
the program.
- Implement and support principles, rules
and processes.
- Proactively identify and eliminate
impediments and facilitate flow.
- Maintain team data
in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Azure Board, etc.) to
support estimates and execution.
- Presents high level
project readouts for senior management.
- Supports
product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities
and scope.
- Manage other special projects as
assigned.
- Other duties as needed.
Requirements
Special Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of project
management experience and 2 years leading sprints
- Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks
like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
- Thrives in a highly
collaborative, fast paced environment
- Expert coach on
implementation of agile scrum
- Deep understanding of
the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict
the development teams’ needs
- Solid experience working
with Architecture teams to assess and size story/epics
- Passionate commitment to delivering products on time
- Comfortable with presenting project readouts to Executive
level audience
- Deep understanding of agile metrics
(tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories
etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
- Ability
to understand and represent both the business and technology
- Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through
email
- Self-motivated, organized
Candidate Specification
- Motivated by the mission
of Sabi
- Pragmatic
with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
- Driven, independent
thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects
simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
- High level of integrity and dependability
with a strong sense of urgency.
- A focus on execution. Willing and able to get
hands dirty.
- Flexibility
to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as
they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure,
method and outcomes yourself .
Benefits
- Rapid Career Growth
- Annual Training Budget
- Robust Health Coverage, including
- Optical Cover, and
- Dental Cover
- Wellness Programs, including
- Free Gym Cover
- Free Spa Cover
- Competitive
Pension Plan
- Opportunity to work in other global
office.
- Life Cover
- Performance
Bonus
- Paid Vacation Days
-
Fully-funded Team Bonding Activities
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