11 month contract
Dublin - hybrid
450-480 per day
The Opportunity
IT Project Manager (Agile)
We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager / Delivery Manager to join a high-performing technology organisation supporting product development within the Banking & Money Movement space.
Working closely with Product and Technology leadership, you will be responsible for driving delivery across two cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring that priorities, dependencies, risks, capacity and releases are effectively managed.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced delivery professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced product environment and is passionate about improving how technology teams plan, deliver and measure business value.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategy & Planning
- Partner with Product and Technology leadership to translate product vision and business outcomes into achievable delivery plans.
- Develop short- and long-term delivery plans aligned to quarterly and annual commitments.
- Lead prioritisation, planning, estimation, forecasting and release planning.
- Manage cross-team dependencies and ensure issues are identified and resolved early.
- Develop risk mitigation plans and elevate significant risks appropriately.
- Use historical delivery data to support forecasting, capacity planning and future delivery decisions.
Delivery
- Drive effective Agile delivery across two cross-functional teams.
- Lead backlog refinement, planning and delivery sessions in partnership with Product and Technology stakeholders.
- Ensure teams maintain well-prioritised and sufficiently refined backlogs.
- Coordinate dependencies across teams, products and stakeholders.
- Support successful product and technology releases.
- Ensure stakeholders have clear expectations around scope, timelines, risks and delivery progress.
- Remove impediments and minimise distractions and context switching for delivery teams.
- Monitor delivery against milestones, capacity, forecasts and expected business outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery predictability, engineering quality and team effectiveness.
Governance & Performance
- Ensure accurate and reliable project, product and portfolio information across enterprise delivery tools.
- Monitor and report on product, technical, quality and delivery KPIs.
- Use leading and lagging indicators to identify delivery trends and potential issues.
- Analyse historical delivery performance and use insights to improve forecasting and planning.
- Ensure appropriate Incident, Change and Problem Management processes are understood and followed.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and work with teams to implement practical improvements.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Act as a trusted partner to Product Leaders, Technology teams and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
- Coach and support teams in Agile and modern delivery practices.
- Help resolve conflicts, remove barriers and build strong working relationships.
- Contribute to the wider delivery community through mentoring, knowledge sharing and best-practice development.
- Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and predictable delivery.
What We're Looking For
- 6-9+ years' experience in IT Project Management, Delivery Management, Technical Project Management or a similar role.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong experience delivering technology products or software development initiatives.
- Excellent knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean delivery methodologies.
- Proven experience managing dependencies, risks, impediments, capacity and release planning.
- Strong understanding of software development and testing lifecycles.
- Experience using delivery metrics, data and KPIs to support forecasting and decision-making.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence Product, Technology and Business leaders.
- Excellent planning, organization and communication skills.
- Ability to identify complex delivery issues, understand the root cause and implement practical solutions.
- Experience working across multiple teams in a complex enterprise environment.
- A continuous-improvement mindset with a focus on improving delivery effectiveness and business outcomes.
Desired Skills and Experience
IT Project Manager (Agile)
11 month contract
Dublin - hybrid
450-480 per day
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager / Delivery Manager to join a high-performing technology organisation supporting product development within the Banking & Money Movement space.
Working closely with Product and Technology leadership, you will be responsible for driving delivery across two cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring that priorities, dependencies, risks, capacity and releases are effectively managed.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced delivery professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced product environment and is passionate about improving how technology teams plan, deliver and measure business value.