**Job summary**
The Red Hat Consulting team is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join us in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this role, you will manage complex projects from initiation, through delivery, to completion. You'll coordinate with cross-functional teams to complete distinct projects on time and within budget. You'll need to be organized, detail-oriented, and have substantial experience managing IT and software consulting projects, relying on traditional systems and software development methodologies. As a Senior Project Manager, you will use a variety of agile practices, along with emerging techniques from open source communities. You'll work together with small teams using the DevOps model to build, test, and iterate innovative application prototypes which deliver real business value. You'll also be involved in our enterprise agile transformation, serving as a catalyst. For this reason, you'll need to have solid agile and scrum knowledge and feel comfortable talking to executive leadership about how we can support business goals, run workshops, and put together strategic proposals that support these initiatives. You will support everything from the scoping of projects to guiding the delivery team's implementation of these projects, ensuring success.
**Primary job responsibilities**
+ Manage project scope and customer expectations
+ Manage project risks, actions, issues, and dependencies (RAID)
+ Manage project budget and timeframe
+ Build content for project activities like project kickoff, project status, and project closeout
+ Lead project meetings involving both customer and Red Hat's consulting team members
+ Coordinate with territory services managers and the Resource Management Office (RMO) to manage project staffing requirements
+ Work with the territory services managers to ensure that financial forecast is up-to-date for their respective projects
+ Clearly articulate the benefits DevOps and agile disciplines have when used within modern delivery teams
+ Inspire teams to embrace DevOps and the agile practices approach as a means of transforming not only what they do, but how they do it
+ Innovate current thinking and develop new approaches to change how organizations and teams deliver iterative deployments of software and systems
+ Improve teams of developers, infrastructure engineers, and testers by embracing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology
+ Work on initiatives to support agile transformations across both business and technical teams
+ Serve as an agile lead, including planning, team management, process management and improvement, team forming for building trust and collaboration, and coaching of product owners
+ Support accounting activities as required, including obtaining copies of receipts for finance invoicing queries from customers
+ Develop basic knowledge of Red Hat's technologies to guide successful project management, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Red Hat Satellite
+ Maintain professionalism when solving problems and resolving issues
**Required skills**
+ 4+ years of experience working as a scrum master with a coaching mentality in an agile environment within an organization that ships software
+ 8+ years of experience working as a project manager with project scope development, managing expectations, and risk and issue mitigation for impediment removal; familiarity with software development
+ Solid experience using agile methodologies; expert at conflict resolution
+ Excellent cross-functional communication skills; solid written and verbal communication skills and ability to present to leadership
+ Practical experience using various agile development tools like Trello, Rally, Atlassian Jira, or project management tools like Microsoft Project
+ Ability to affect, inspect, and adapt to culture
+ Demonstrated ability to motivate project team and individual contributors and to mediate conflicts
+ Excellent customer-facing and internal communication skills
+ Solid organizational skills; attention to detail and ability to work on multiple tasks at the same time
+ Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
+ Project management or scrum certifications are a plus
**About Red Hat**
is the world’s leading provider of enterprisesoftware solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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**Location** _AR-Buenos Aires_
**Posting date** _4 days ago_ _(11/26/2020 10:03 AM)_
**_Job ID_** _82188_
**_Category_** _Project Management_
