Project Manager – IT Infra

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As a Project Manager, expected to take full ownership of your projects to ensure completion and successful delivery to the satisfaction of internal and external stakeholders / management.
The project management office will rely on the Project Manager manage and follow up on open items and track project issues and risks for a number of different projects concurrently.
Project manager is responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget. The Project manager plans and designates project resources, prepares budgets, monitors progress, and keep stakeholders informed the entire way. This is all done within the confines of a company’s goals and vision.
This Role will require the Project Manager/Scrum Master to ensure all aspects of the delivery are tracked, ensuring projects are resourced and meet client and business expectations. You will be expected to take ownership of multiple projects and manage various types of deliveries, ranging in complexity, such as:
1. Delivering key upgrades to an established bespoke product used by all our customers. This includes product enhancements, new features, bespoke software development and technical upgrades.
2. New Products – Managing the overall delivery process from concept, right through to launch with key stakeholders.
3. Data Migrations – Managing complex data migrations that includes player data, game data, payment data, financial and transactional history from external platforms and 3rd Party systems.
4. Technical Integrations – Managing internal and external integration projects, ranging from internal back office systems and product integrations, 3rd party wallet integrations and 3rd party platform / software integrations.
5. Compliance – Delivering key projects to meet the changes in compliance / certification guidelines across multiple jurisdictions and territories.
6. Onboarding projects of new brands to the live casino network and all internal/external integrations required as a result.
7. The gaming industry is a fast moving and competitive environment, where our customers apply great pressure to differentiate themselves from the competition and to be first to market for any new content, features and technical upgrades. A key role of the Project manager is to ensure they can not only thrive in this type of environment but can also effectively manage our clients’ expectations.
8. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide range of people, 3rd parties, clients and senior management, working closely with all aspects of the business (product development, account management, development teams and operations), on a number of projects throughout each release cycle.
9. The main duties and responsibilities in this role will include, but are not limited to:
  - Take ownership of the entire individual project life cycle from inception to deployment and post-deployment support.
  - Concurrently manage multiple projects. Understand high level architecture and consume high level technical flow information at pace applying this understanding to your projects to be able to steer the project
  - Project delivery within Time / Budget and quality assurance.
  - Manage all project and non-project processes that directly or indirectly impact delivery.
  - Manage stakeholder / management expectations.
  - Managing 3rd Party providers / technical teams (both internal and external to Playtech)
  - Effectively managing project scope, issues and risks.
  - Ensure project reporting and admin is up to date and project status and reporting is always accurately maintained.
  - Attending the weekly program board and PMO meetings to discuss project progress, risks and issues.
  - Perform Scrum Master role:
    1. Manage team ceremonies (Scrum, Grooming, Sprint Planning etc.)
    2. Coach team during ceremonies ensuring their productivity
    3. Manage team board ensuring this is up to date
    4. Track Epics/Stories/Tasks to manage team deliverables
    5. Manage overall team delivery ensuring mandatory non-project specific tasks are completed ahead of delivery e.g. Security sign off, PII compliance adherence etc.
    6. Perform Scrum Master team admin
    7. Release Manager – Manage and coordinate releases to live platform with and without downtime

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Technical IT Background (Academic or recent experience)
Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
Good presentation skills.
Excellent organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.
Knowledge of the best practices for project management.
High standards of both written and oral communication.
Appreciation of both waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies, and the ability to apply them appropriately.
Degree Education preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or a related field
5-8 years of project management and related experience
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
Proven ability to solve problems creatively
Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
Excellent analytical skills
Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline