Software Project Manager

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Software Project Manager to lead end-to-end software implementation projects in a fast-paced environment. You will define scope with customers, coordinate cross-functional teams, and manage documentation from FDO to go-live.

Responsibilities include scope control, risk management, and regular status updates, with a focus on delivering on time and within budget. Collaboration with sales, software leadership, and customers is essential for success.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• 5+ years leading software implementation projects or technical customer-facing projects.
• Experience with full lifecycle software deployment and go-live support.

Aufgaben

• Define and manage software project scope, schedules, budgets, and risks.
• Coordinate with sales, management, and customers to confirm scope of work.
• Lead or coordinate documentation including FDO, FSD, and integration specs.
• Manage change requests, impact reviews, and approvals with customers.
• Use Azure DevOps to create Epics, Features, and User Stories and track progress.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog reviews, and status meetings with stakeholders.
• Serve as primary customer-facing contact for project execution and go-live planning.
• Coordinate interfaces for host systems, REST APIs, PLCs, and data exchanges.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Azure DevOps

Stakeholder management

SQL Server

Jira

Cross-functional leadership

Risk & issue management

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

SQL Server

Windows Server

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Manage software project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and customer communication. Work with sales, management, software leadership, customers, and internal stakeholders to define and confirm software scope of work. Lead or coordinate project documentation, including Functional Description of Operations (FDO), Functional Specification Document (FSD), configuration documentation, integration specifications, implementation plans, and related deliverables. Manage scope deviations and customer-requested changes, including documentation, communication, impact review, and approval coordination. Develop and maintain software project plans, milestones, priorities, deliverables, and schedules. Use Azure DevOps or similar project tracking tools to manage project work items, tasks, priorities, risks, and delivery progress. Create, define, and maintain Epics, Features, and User Stories in Azure DevOps. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog review, work prioritization, and project status tracking as appropriate. Coordinate with development, testing, support, implementation, infrastructure, and management teams to ensure project work is properly planned, staffed, tracked, and delivered. Serve as a primary customer-facing point of contact for software project execution. Lead regular customer project meetings, status calls, design reviews, scope reviews, testing coordination meetings, and go-live planning discussions. Coordinate planning for host system integrations, automation subsystem interfaces, PLC or equipment interfaces, REST APIs, socket interfaces, database interfaces, file exchanges, reporting, and other project-specific integrations. Support planning and coordination of internal testing, integration testing, customer testing, user acceptance testing, deployment, go-live validation, and post-go-live stabilization. Develop and maintain site implementation plans, including staffing plans, testing plans, go-live support plans, escalation paths, and timing. Coordinate software team travel schedules with internal execution teams and customers as appropriate. Track project budget performance, labor usage, remaining work, estimate-to-complete, change requests, and scope impacts. Provide regular project updates to software management and company leadership. Coordinate project closeout activities, support transition, documentation completion, open issue review, and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field preferred. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of experience managing software implementation projects, enterprise software deployments, warehouse automation systems, or other technical customer-facing projects.
• Experience leading projects through the full lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, development coordination, testing, deployment, go-live support, and transition to ongoing support.
• Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and customer communications.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, including software developers, QA testers, support teams, customer stakeholders, IT resources, vendors, and implementation personnel.
• Knowledge of warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse execution systems (WES), warehouse control systems (WCS), warehouse automation equipment, distribution center operations, or order fulfillment environments.
• Familiarity with configurable enterprise software platforms and system integration projects.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server, relational databases, APIs, reporting tools, Windows Server environments, automation interfaces, PLCs, or other industrial software technologies.
• Experience using project tracking and work management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting customer site implementations, commissioning activities, go-live planning, post-launch stabilization, and support handoff processes.
• PMP, CAPM, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Agile, or similar project management certifications preferred but not required.