Project Manager

CureMD; Lahore; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-annual bonus

Health coverage for family

Provident Fund

Company-sponsored trainings

Job summary

CureMD in Lahore is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead IT initiatives from concept to delivery. You will drive scope, timeline, and budget while collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic goals.

The role requires a track record in delivering software projects in Agile environments, strong stakeholder communication, and the ability to coach Scrum teams to maturity. A supportive, growth-oriented workplace offers extensive training and a focus on healthcare IT impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer, Engineering, Management Sciences, or related field.
• SDLC understanding and agile delivery experience.
• 9–10 years in software development environments.
• Experience coaching Scrum teams and Product Owners.
• CSM certification; SAFe knowledge preferred.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as servant leader to teams, protecting from interruptions and aligning with Product Owner and stakeholders.
• Foster open communication, transparency, and continuous improvement of the team and program.
• Facilitate team creativity and improve development efficiency.
• Manage Scrum teams delivering products using Agile methods.
• Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Conduct retrospectives and ensure effective backlog refinement.
• Help product backlog readiness for upcoming sprints.
• Coach team on Agile Scrum values and practices.
• Identify risks and resolve impediments through cross-functional collaboration.
• Monitor team velocity for backlog planning and visibility.
• Promote Agile engineering practices (TDD, BDD, continuous delivery).
• Mentor junior Scrum Masters and onboard new teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Facilitation

Communication

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer/Engineering/Management sciences

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Job Description:

Job Overview:

As a Project Manager, you'll lead our IT projects from conception to delivery, ensuring success within scope, timeline, and budget. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, establish project goals, and drive execution. If you're a project management professional with a track record of successful project outcomes, this role offers a chance to steer critical IT initiatives to success.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a servant leader to team(s), establishing and maintaining an environment where the team(s) can be effective, fostering a relationship between the team and the Product Owner as well as other dependent teams and protecting the team from outside interruptions.
• To encourage open communication and transparency while focusing on predictability, quality delivery, continuous improvement of the team and overall program execution.
• Facilitate his team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
• Responsible for managing the Scrum teams developing products using Agile methodology.
• Arranged daily stand‑up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision‑making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings.
• Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
• Helps Product Owner to maintain the product backlogs in good shape and ready for the next sprints.
• Should be a problem solver, avid learner with behavioral attribute of respect, integrity, innovation and teamwork.
• Resolve conflict using Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect.
• Needs to be expert in estimation and planning. Should know how to create useful, reliable and practical plan(s) for software development project(s).
• Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practice(s) and work product(s).
• Maintain Agile chart(s), ratio(s) and metric(s) that provide organization visibility and insight about the team morale, quality, and productivity showing continuous improvement.
• Utilizes team feedback and metric(s) to identify opportunity and improvement area(s) for team(s).
• To coach individuals and interactions over processes, best practices and tools and about Agile Scrum to deliver successful deliverables.
• Help team or individual to clarify goal(s) and actions to achieve them.
• Ability to shield team(s) from outside distractions and interferences.
• Ability to ensure the correct use of Scrum process.
• Developing ability to help onboard or acts as a mentor to Scrum Masters with less experience.
• Proactively identify risk(s) /impediment(s) and facilitate quick resolution(s) using company networks such as PMO, IT, CS, HR, and Enterprise Management and other departments, for impediment removal.
• Track the preparation work required in readiness for future sprints in the form of backlog refinement and show stopper impediments removal.
• Monitor team velocity to be effectively used for product backlog planning.
• Holds experience in educating and promotion of Agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, Test-driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and refactoring preferred.
• Ability to evaluate and inspect performance of team(s) and individual with quarterly with transparency using proven key performance indicators.
• Become a career coach for the team members to understand and identify their natural talent and forte; in order to groom their competencies, career paths, and personalities to reach their fullest potential.
• Build solid understanding of the US HealthCare IT domain – Provide feedback to the Business Analysis team on the documentation and UXI.
• Close collaboration with Client Services to watch Support tickets SLAs and opportunities for improvements.
• Agile Estimating, Planning and Forecasting.
• Coaching Agile Practices and Scrum Values to cultivate right culture.
• Facilitate interactions (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective).
• Inter-team and intra-team conflict resolution.
• Removing impediments and roadblock.
• Creating communication channel (Organization, Product owner, Developers, Stakeholder).
• Processes and Policies implementation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer, Engineering, Management Sciences, or other relevant degree.
• Complete understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its processes and procedures.
• Proven track record of delivering software applications in an Agile environment.
• At least 9-10 years of overall experience in Software Development environment.
• Proven experience identifying a Scrum team’s gaps in the Scrum framework and leading them to adopt new practices by focusing on Scrum values, Agile manifesto values and principle.
• Should have knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
• Experienced in coaching new Agile teams, cross-functional team members (Dev, QA, BA, Architecture), Product Owners, and Product Managers to achieve best practices.
• Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
• Knowledge and understanding of backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Ability to communicate Agile concepts and benefits to the team and stakeholders, come up with solution that are creative and work with leadership.
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills, coaching and mentorship experience on several engagements/workshops.
• Excellent communication skills with solid oral, written, and presentation skills, as well as, excellent interpersonal skills are required.
• Ability to receive feedback constructively to improve development.
• Must be a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from an accredited certification body.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) will be preferred.
• Proven experience in coaching the Product Owner in some of the product backlog management techniques for e.g.: Agile user stories with acceptance criteria and breaking them down into smaller tasks to achieve high degree of transparency.
• Demonstrated ability to teach, coach, inspire and motivate people to change their values and practices as evidenced by experience persuading key stakeholders (like Executive Sponsor, program/project managers, line managers) to become servant leaders and to empower people who use the Scrum framework.
• Proven experience to create transparency using Information radiators for example: help teams creating velocity tracking and graphs (e.g. Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown) using either Agile project management software (e.g. JIRA, DevOps) or advanced Microsoft Excel skills so that the team(s) can monitor the progress themselves.
• Agile Project Management for high-end Product Development.

Compensation and Benefits:

Financial:

• Competitive salary and bi-annual bonus.
• Fast track and uncapped career growth for high performers.
• Company-sponsored vehicle financing (car and bike).
• Interest-free loans.
• Provident Fund: CureMD matches up to 8% of your base salary.
• Fuel Card.
• Cellular Allowance.

Health and Wellness:

• In-house clinic with a team of certified male and female doctors with 24/7 telemedicine service.
• Hospital treatment monitoring by company doctors.
• Comprehensive health coverage for your immediate family (outpatient, inpatient, maternity and parents' inpatient).
• Exclusive health benefits and discounts at top class clinics and labs.

Supportive Workplace:

• Pick-up and drop-off services for female employees.
• In-house daycare facility.
• In-house gym and recreational area to unwind.

Continued Learning:

• Company-sponsored trainings, workshops, development programs and retreats.
• Paid specialized trainings/certifications.

The Difference You’ll Make:

At CureMD, every role, whether senior or junior, plays a pivotal part in transforming healthcare. By joining our innovative team, you’ll contribute to groundbreaking technology that directly impacts patient care, enhances healthcare efficiency, and saves lives globally. Your skills and passion will drive meaningful change, helping us deliver solutions that support healthcare professionals in critical, real-time settings. Together, we’re not just advancing technology — we’re making a tangible difference in people’s lives. Together, let’s save lives.