Requirements:
- 2+ years in a project management role. This experience doesn’t need to be formalized but the candidate must demonstrate first hand task allocation, project tracking and development.
- Strong agile methodologies knowledge. The candidate must be able to demonstrate strong knowledge of the agile methodology that the candidate knows best. We’re not religious about applying them in practice but theoretical knowledge is required in order to be able to adapt it if required.
- Consistent attention to details. The candidate needs to have a natural predisposition to order and detail that lasts through the tedious hours of sprint planning.
- Driven personality. The candidate must be a driver for the project, to help the team get over the humps and bumps in the road and move the project ahead.
- Native leadership skills are a plus. Typically we can work and respect many leadership styles but the most effective ones in our organization are democratic, laissez-faire and transformational and most of all situational.
- Robustness is a plus. We have some passionate characters in our team and managing them requires a cool head and patience. It also requires impartiality and ‘I see both sides’ approach to all arguments. We need a negotiator not a dictator.
It is exciting and challenging at the same time to work in a startup. Bigstep develops it’s own product and the code we write is nobody else’s problem. We’re in it for the long run. If we do a bad job at it we pay the consequences later on. There are long hours at times but also it’s a very technically interesting environment with passionate people and interesting challenges.
Role overview
We are looking for a project manager with experience in agile software development
environments to help coordinate day-to-day development activities of one or more complex
development initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Hold daily scrum/kanban meetings with the team and the product owner;
- Hold sprint planning and retrospective meetings;
- Maintain a complete JIRA log of project progress;
- Work with the product team to ensure that the developers have proper requirements;
- Work with the various teams within the company to ensure dependencies are met;
- Ensure the QA process is performed properly and on-time.
Note: Being part of an IT startup can be a lot of fun. It offers rewards and responsibilities that are unheard of incorporate environments. It can provide a quick path to the stratosphere of IT, as it must move a lot quicker and with much less resources. We will offer you the means to evolve, to make a difference within your team and perhaps even lead the way.
Bigstep is the only cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes. We enable businesses, large and small, to get started with a production-ready big data environment in just a few clicks, all in the Full Metal Cloud, the world’s highest performance cloud, purpose built for big data.
As part of our team you will be shaping the future of the Big Data market, working alongside a very experienced team. Our bread and butter are cutting edge technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Couchbase, Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and we combine them in novel ways to enable plain data to change the world.