- As a Project Manager at SKO
- Systems, you will support successful execution of software and technology
- projects by coordinating across cross-functional teams. You’ll manage
- schedules, remove blockers, track scope, and report progress. This role is
- delivery-focused, requires high attention to detail, and directly contributes
- to the Program Manager’s and organization's success by maintaining consistency,
- transparency, and performance in execution.
Essential Functions / Deliverables
Project
- Planning & Sprint Management: Collaborate with the Sr. Project Manager to
- define sprint goals, capacity planning, and iteration timelines using
- Agile/Scrum practices
Task
Coordination & Follow-up: Ensure tickets/stories are properly defined,
assigned, estimated, and updated. Coordinate with developers, QA, and designers
Progress &
Risk Tracking: Track sprint velocity, monitor deadlines, and proactively
escalate risks to Sr. Project Manager with mitigation options
Requirements
Validation & Clarification: Work with Business Analysts and clients to
ensure user stories and requirements are clear, testable, and aligned to goals
Client
Communication Support: Assist in creating and presenting weekly status reports,
release notes, and demo readiness updates
Tool Management
(Jira/ADO): Maintain project boards, workflows, and reports in Jira or Azure
DevOps. Ensure ticket hygiene and sprint health
Documentation
- & Knowledge Sharing: Update Confluence, RAID logs, SOPs, meeting notes.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer and lessons learned
- Quality and
- Delivery Assurance: Ensure QA coverage, regression checks, and UAT alignment
- with delivery timelines. Coordinate signoff and documentation
Cross-Functional
Collaboration: Collaborate closely with BAs, PMO Analysts, QA, DevOps, and
UI/UX to maintain alignment and velocity
Continuous
- Improvement: Identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements to workflows, sprint
- retro, and team velocity metrics. Contribute ideas to improve delivery
- frameworks
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in
- computer science, Engineering, or a related field
- Certifications: PMP certification is preferred
- Required Years and Area of
- Professional Experience: 8 years and above experience, preferably in software development or software QA three to four years and four years of project management technology-led
- environments
- Project management
- competency and tools awareness:
Project
- Management Tools: Azure DevOps “ADO” or Jira
- Methodologies: Agile,
- Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid models
Lifecycle
Expertise: Full project lifecycle (requirements → design → integration →
testing)
Technical
Understanding: Ability to align software development with business objectives
Communication
- & Documentation: Status reporting, change management, stakeholder communication
- and planning
- Professional competencies
- Strong stakeholder management and client communication
- skills
- Ability to lead teams, track performance, and resolve
- risks/issues
- Experience in project scoping, scheduling, and budget
- control
- Proficient in creating and maintaining project documentation
- Strong organizational, multitasking, and analytical
- abilities
Knowledge, Skills &
Abilities
Excellent
- coordination, organization, and delivery tracking
- Ability to work
- across multiple teams and manage dependencies
Strong
communication and reporting skills (verbal, written, visual)
Working
knowledge of SDLC, QA processes, and Agile/Scrum ceremonies
Detail-oriented
- with a mindset for process improvement and delivery optimization
- Ethics & Compliance: This position requires high standards of ethics,
- transparency, and accountability. You must demonstrate respect, integrity, and
- the courage to raise concerns where appropriate, ensuring a healthy delivery
- culture
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