IT Programme Manager at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited – Our client, a leading ICT company, is currently recruiting candidates for its Nigeria office, for a short-term, contractual project to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Programme Manager

Location: Lagos

Duties

• Conduct daily scrum meetings and must have exposure in managing digital apps projects
• Conduct agile ceremonies (standees, sprint end review, documenting the deliverables, retro inspection of backlog grooming and what we did better / bad)
• Encouraging the project stakeholders on the benefits of impediment resolution for the folks who are not attending the stand ups.
• Push for agile adoption culture within the team and the respective stakeholders involved in the success of the project
• Maintaining sprint board, backlog grooming in Jira (by working with the product management before start of sprint 1 to go ahead with a high end back log)
• Conduct backlog grooming sessions every 2 to 3 sprints with the product manager
• Prepare a plan for 2 to 3 sprints in advance for more transparency in the upcoming releases
• Encourage & ensure need of planned sprint for release and ensuring testers start contributing from day 1 by adding acceptance positive / negative test criteria and code branching & review approach

Education / Experience / Other Requirements

• B.Sc / HND in Computer Science, Project Management or related discipline. A good blend of relevant Scrum, Project Management and IT experience will be preferred.
• A minimum of 7 years relevant experience
• Ability to manage offshore and on site engineering associates
• Proficient in tools like Jira, Slack, Microsoft Project Plan and Microsoft Sharepoint
• Capability of keeping pace with the “shorter cycle to releasesФ and yet being nimble to cater Уjust in timeФ requests, instead of pushing them to backlog / next phase / sprint via release tracking in Jira.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2020.