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IT Project Manager / Service Planner
Autodesk
Novi, MI, United States
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Do you thrive in an environment where you can work on engaging and challenging projects? Do you have a start-up mentality? Every year Autodesk hires talented engineers to join our global teams and benefit from unlimited access to our technology and industry mentors. If this sounds like you… let's talk.
Join us in Novi, Michigan!
Novi continues to be one of the fastest growing cities in Michigan and ranks among the top of its neighboring county communities for research, technology and service companies. The city is located approximately 25 miles northwest of the center of Detroit, and 25 miles from of the center of Ann Arbor.
Position Overview
We're looking for an experienced and talented Technical Project Manager to join the Engineering Systems Services team at Autodesk. This team leverages Software Engineering and DevOps principles to design, build and optimize many of the company’s critical engineering systems and processes through building re-usable platforms and automation services. Our engineering culture will empower you to make effective decisions, work collaboratively and take accountability for engineering projects at the core of the company and the leading edge of the latest industry technology trends.
This Technical Project Manager position will require you to work cross-functionally with engineering teams, marketing and internal customers to drive progress towards goals. The ideal candidate is comfortable wearing multiple hats:
• Be an agile guru: As the IT Project Manager you will use agile and traditional project management techniques to scope, plan, and resource programs and projects, to drive the team to successful delivery.
• Be a project wrangler: You will be responsible for planning projects and initiatives, establishing roadmaps, and setting delivery expectations for each service. You will remove blockers and aid in accurate prioritization of stories and epics within the services, and ensure projects are on track.
• Be a team builder: You will work to grow strong agile practices and processes by working with the team in a coaching capacity. You will identify and implement process improvements to aid the team. Help team balance time between project and operational work.
• Be a collaborator: You will work with stakeholders to proactively manage risks and dependencies on projects and initiatives, often times collaborating with other teams or outside vendors. Drive discussions with customers to aid service prioritizations.
• Be driver for metrics: You will utilize project management tools to build reports, dashboards, and roadmaps to effectively communicate project and initiative status to a variety of different parties. You will analyze project and sprint data to proactively manage timelines, risks and dependencies. Slice and dice team data to develop metrics and identify opportunities for team growth.
Responsibilities
• Guiding the team to self-organize and become hyper productive in delivering quality software early and often
• Assist with the coordination and facilitation of meetings (e.g., daily stand-up, backlog grooming, sprint planning, release planning, and sprint retrospectives); adapt process as required to maximize each team's success
• Working with Service Planners and other Project Managers on initiatives aimed at improving organization-wide processes, tools and culture
• Coordinating and scheduling the execution of deliverables across multiple teams
• Participate in pre-planning activities to inform decision making and business goal validation
• Guide the team in refining and managing the product backlog to deliver consistent business value
• Facilitating the removal of tactical and organizational impediments to team progress
• Identifying and coordinating dependencies with external teams
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution, ensuring continued and improved team operational health
• Providing visibility to team status and issues to senior management
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information of the team status and issues
• Ensure meeting artifacts are generated/distributed, to communicate progress to stakeholders
Minimum Qualifications
• Learn about the projects you are helping guide to foster meaningful discussions and question assumptions
• Ability to execute and manage performance and expectations within a cross-functional, matrix management environment
• Project manager who believes in the principles of Agile and knows when to bend them to fit the team
• Preference for collaborative work within an agile practice as a member of a multi-discipline team
• Experience managing large, complex initiatives and projects from initiation to completion
• Experience overcoming the difficulties of managing projects with global team members
• Enjoy coaching teams to help them predictably deliver projects and continuously improve
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• 2+ years of software Project Management or Scrum Master experience, working cross functionally within an engineering organization
• Literacy with Agile tools (such as JIRA, Kanban boards, etc.)
• Bachelor’s Degree or College Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with the following technologies is a plus:
◦ Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence)
◦ Aha!
◦ Splunk
◦ Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana
◦ Background in an engineering or development, especially DevOps
• Certification as a Scrum Professional (CSP) and Scrum Master (CSM) is a plus
About Autodesk
With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It's disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity.
Our software is used by everyone - from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital scientists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world.