eFront is a leading software provider of end-to-end solutions dedicated to the financial industry. eFront’s solutions for cross-asset classes serve more than 800 customers in 48 countries, including companies in the private equity, real estate investment, banking and insurance sectors. Founded in 1999, eFront has offices in New York, Dallas, Montreal, London, Jersey, Paris (HQ), Bonn, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing amongst our 23 global locations.
In order to support our constantly growing business, we are looking for a:
Scrum Master - Belgrade
Department: Product & DevOps
Position
Reporting directly to our DevOps manager, you will have these duties:
- Project management for Releases / Projects within eFront
- Effectively manage four key components of all projects:
- Scope
- Resources
- Time
- Budget
Your main responsibilities will be:
People / Team Management:
- Provide constructive feedback and recognition to team members
- Inspire teamwork approach, ownership and urgency
- Keep your employees motivated, manage conflicts and and take appropriate decisions for your employees and in the interest of the Organization
- Serve as an interface between and across teams and geographies
- Ability to work in diverse and fast pace environment
- Guide and promote team transparency, maintain and manage clear and consistent project metrics
Organizational skills:
- Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
- Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner/Manager, (especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog)
- Identify target milestones and support Program Manager with creation of reliable, detailed and practical project plans
- Create clear weekly reports representing reality and escalate if stakeholder’s expectations are not in line with project realities
- Identify release issues and escalate when appropriate in very clear manner
- Monitor project execution to plan and delivery to commitments
- Assist during deployments and ensure all supporting documentation exist (release notes, packages, QA sign offs, etc.)
- Facilitate relationships within the project/release team
Project Control:
- Conduct project meetings and collaborate with project team members to build consensus on challenging issues
- Monitor and control projects by actively identifying, tracking, managing, mitigating and resolving project issues and risks
- Partner with Product, Engineering and QA Management for products delivery and improvements to process
- Ability to track and remove impediments
Time Management:
- Working with employees, customers and management - often dealing with conflicting priorities
Budgeting:
- You are expected to keep and maintain a project budget and report any deviations that occur
- To be confident in using math skills in order to report accurate spending and ability to classify / capitalized all capital expenditure
Analytical Skills:
- Being able to solve problems that may come up during a typical work day
Required skills and experience:
- 5 - 8 years of experience in software delivery project / program / portfolio management
- Strong time management, analytical and communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and perform well under pressure
- Strong team player with equally strong interpersonal skills
- Experience working for a provider of financial technology strongly preferred
- Experience working with international teams spanning over multiple regions / time zones
Additional skills appreciated:
- Experience in private equity
- PMP certification
eFront stands out as a real career booster :
- We are at the crossroads between software and the thriving businesses of Private Equity and Real Estate
- We foster international and cross-functional mobility across our broad office network
- Our culture encourages risk-taking and innovation
- While we are a financially robust and established company, we are still as agile and boiling as a start-up and offer plenty of opportunities to gain responsibilities rapidly
This is a rare opportunity for an ambitious and rising professional to join a rapidly growing and successful company. Visit our career page http://careers.efront.com/ and join us!
Deadline for applications: 11.07.2017.