IT Project Manager (Agile)

Allied Reliability; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allied Reliability in Houston, TX seeks an IT Project Manager to mentor teams as they transition to an Agile approach and new ways of working. Local candidates only; contract role without sponsorship.

Responsibilities include coaching teams, facilitating Agile events, and reporting on progress while ensuring alignment with strategic goals and platform leadership.

Qualifications

• Skilled in Lean Agile practices, facilitation, teaching, coaching.
• Experience mentoring, transformation and business productization, ideation and delivery.
• Ability to understand and utilize market standard Agile tools.

Responsibilities

• Coach cross-functional teams to optimise Agile ways of working.
• Facilitate events like retrospectives, story mapping and Scrum of Scrums.
• Ensure alignment between strategy and execution with platform leads.
• Provide Agile project management reports and dashboards.
• Foster psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Skills

Lean Agile practices

facilitation

coaching

mentoring

transformation

design thinking

CI/CD

DevOps

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Sharing

Job description

Allied Reliability is seeking an IT Project Manager in Houston, TX to mentor teams as they transition to an Agile approach and new ways of working.

All candidates must be local to Houston, TX. This is a contract opportunity and does not offer sponsorship now or in the future.

Roles And Responsibilities

Embody an agnostic agile mindset, experimental approach, apply the right mix of support and challenge that empower teams to continuously improve. Coach cross-functional teams on optimising Agile ways of working, identifying waste, improving feedback loops. Contribute to our Agile Community of Practice (CoP) re: Lean-Agile principles and practices. A coach embedded with a cross functional team of product owners, project management, UX design, engineering managers and other internal stakeholders to facilitate outcomes of discovery and definition phases. Facilitate key Team of Teams events, retrospectives and workshops, e.g. Story mapping, value stream mapping, Scrum of Scrums, Product Alignment. Ensure synchronisation between Team of Teams and Team-level agile cadence. Maintain a focus on Lean/Kanban metrics, leading and lagging indicators. Raise visibility of Team of Team level impediments, risks and dependencies. Support/generate Agile project management reports (e.g. generate Jira queries, planned vs. earned value reports). Ensure psychological safety and an engaging space for team collaboration, learning and agility maturity assessments to bring about continuous and measurable improvements. Work closely with the platform vertical lead to ensure alignment between strategy and execution. Coach other team members, review team dynamics, health.

Mandatory Skills

Skilled in Lean Agile practices, facilitation, teaching, coaching. Knowledge of mentoring, transformation and business productization, ideation, design, development, testing, CI/CD, DevOps. Ability to understand and properly utilize market standard tools used in the Agile space.

Domain Knowledge

Trading in financial services and/or energy trading

Knowledge of ETRMs (Energy Trading Risk Management) systems required

Prior Experience In Data Warehousing And Data Migration Required

Technology experience to include Databricks, Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing

Optional Skills

Scrum Master certifications (CSM, PSM I, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC)

Portfolio: Shell IDT/Downstream & Renewables IDT/Trading & Supply/TS - Crude & Products/TS - Products/TS - Products Investments

Program: Products Data Exchange

Project: Legacy Datawarehouse Migration PDW

Description: Products Data Exchange is a one-stop shop for Products data

Data and Technical Foundations ('building blocks') to expand current analytic and digital capabilities and more broadly enable data science and artificial intelligence capabilities on cloud technology.

Central Data Repository is crucial for the PDS Vision 2030 -

Products Data Exchange (PDX) is a centralized data repository of harmonized NA and WONA data.

Business case: Achieving cloud modernization is imperative to alleviate speed and agility challenges faced with the current on-premise data landscapes and to increase technical capabilities necessary to deliver outcomes of the PDS 2030 Vision.

Benefits Inc

• Global Reporting: One of the driving benefits is the ability to enable a consistent and cleansed view of global P&L and Exposure.
• Near Real-Time Access: PDE provides near real-time access to curated datasets to enable more global intra-day reportin
• Business Applications: Endur Products, DEX
• Project Type: IT Project
• Project Class: App major enhancement| Project Planning & Tracking, Project Governance, Project Assurance & Compliance