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Agile Project Lead

Published date more than one year ago
Posted: more than one year ago
Company Nordcloud
Company: Nordcloud
Location Helsinki
Location: Helsinki


Agile Project Lead - Expert with Superpowers

Do names like Mary Poppendieck, Mike Cohn, Kent Beck, Henrik Kniberg, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka, Ken Schwaber and Eric Ries pop up from your bookshelf? Do you find scaled agile an oxymoron or The Thing? What's your "favourite" form of fake agile? How to make the ends meet between iterative development and mid/long-term target setting? When to go #noestimate? How should a Scrum team manage technical debt in practice? What makes a great Product Owner and how to coach a customer towards greatness?

We keep iterating on our approach to questions like the ones above and are looking forward to welcoming another bright agile practitioner to join us in that journey.

Thanks to our rapid growth we are looking for an Agile Project Lead to lead and support our customer project deliveries and develop Nordcloud’s delivery model as we continue to unlock new areas of expertise and synergies between them.

On a day to day basis, you will find yourself:

  • Satisfying the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
  • Welcoming changing requirements, even late in development
  • Delivering working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale

… ok, you might see where this is going, so let’s start over in Nordcloud’s context:

  • Leading our agile customer projects
  • Coaching fellow practitioners, customers and sales to learn to nail agile end-to-end
  • Developing Nordcloud’s agile delivery model through empiria and contributing into our international community of agile practitioners
  • Building long-term collaboration with selected key customers together with the other account team core members and customer stakeholders

To succeed in the role, we would see need for a subset of the following skills, experiences and characteristics but are happy to hear your thoughts and tailor the role around your strengths and interests:

  • Experience of working in an agile software development team and developing agile ways of working in both team and organisational levels
  • Excellent communication, presentation and argumentation skills, solution-oriented mindset and capability to challenge the status quo in a professional and diplomatic way
  • Strong trust in teamwork, proactiveness, openness and sharing knowledge
  • A ‘get it done’ attitude and ownership of tasks from their inception to completion
  • Experience in working with multinational, partially remote teams (we work from 10+ locations in Europe)
  • Experience in working in a consultative, customer facing, project / service delivery management role for a software company
  • Agile project planning and management, especially scope management and release planning
  • Acting as a Scrum Master
  • … and if need be an interim proxy Product Owner
  • Agile coaching, e.g., what comes to business value prioritisation, value stream optimisation and embracing rather than suppressing the unknowns
  • Facilitation as means for joint problem solving and planning
  • Stakeholder management
  • Requirements engineering
  • Depending on the customer case, common project management responsibilities including project portfolio management, budgeting, invoicing, customer reporting, tactical / strategic meeting organisation, escalations and risk management
  • Keen interest in public cloud and how it can bring our customers value
  • As we have varying opportunities to work internationally, requirement to travel readiness is minimum 25% in Finland and other locations in Europe. All applicants must have the right to work in the EU

    The context? Since 2011 Nordcloud has been designing and building cutting-edge front ends and cloud-native back ends and data platforms on AWS, Azure and GCP. In fact, the story started already in 2006 under the name SC5. We make the most out of the tech stack flexibility that follows from microservice architectures and organising around feature teams, yet often find ourselves developing with React.js, Node.js, Python, .NET Core and C#. Our tightly knit design, infrastructure automation, application development, data-driven solution and managed services offerings and teams enable us to serve our customers in an exceptionally end-to-end yet agile fashion and optimise the projects on the whole; without layers, silos, handovers and playing ticket tennis.

So far we have built solutions for running energy markets for Gasum, Enegia and Aidon; used machine learning to optimise telecom customer service; played a major role for more than a decade as Veikkaus has grown into Finland’s biggest eCommerce; pioneered on personal route planning with Whim and helped them take on new markets; worked with industrial machinery efficiency optimisation and predictive maintenance solutions for global companies in manufacturing and process industries, etc. As of 2/2020 roughly 50% of Nordcloud’s business is in Finland and 50% across Europe.

Our team

Meet some of us Nordcloudians in this video and on our Instagram account

Why Nordcloud as your next career move?

  • International working environment and career growth – a team of 40+ different nationalities offers interesting career opportunities on your journey to become a cloud project management expert
  • As a Project Lead, you will be part of a cloud expert team with all-around skillset
  • We appreciate that you bring in your share of wisdom with you and extend our internal knowhow and procedures
  • Freedom to choose your tools and ways of working
  • Flexibility in working hours
  • Ambition! – we disrupt the industry and show other companies how future looks like. We are determined to continuously develop ourselves and the business. It's an ongoing process and we love it!

NORDCLOUD OFFERS YOU

  • Leading-edge projects.
  • A personal budget for trainings, conferences & certifications – we want you to grow.
  • Highly skilled co-workers and friendly and supportive working culture. We enjoy working and having fun together and sharing our knowledge.
  • Most advanced technologies. We are the overly excited techies who can’t wait to read about the newest launches!
  • Sports, culture, lunch & public transportation benefits.
  • Events & fun – e.g. weekly yoga & floorball lessons, afternoon break gymnastics, bi-weekly massage at the office, afterworks and other events.
  • Broad occupational health services.
  • Great tech equipment – high-end laptop and smartphone (or tablet) of your choice.
  • International working environment – we are a team of 30+ different nationalities.

+1: Ambition! We disrupt the industry and show how future looks like. We are determined to develop ourselves and the business. It's an ongoing process and we love it!

Let us hear from you

Fill in the application below by Thursday 27th of February and we’ll get back to you!

Our Talent Acquisition Partner Katia (LinkedIn / 044 202 6663 / katia.rajanen[at]nordcloud.com) is happy to answer your questions.

About Nordcloud

Europe´s leading cloud solution provider Nordcloud accelerates the digital transformation of its customers with the latest cloud technology. Since 2011, Nordcloud has completed more than 1000 successful deployments that have helped its enterprise customers reap the full benefits of the public cloud, including better security, agility, scalability and reduced costs. Nordcloud employs 400+ cloud experts around Europe. Nordcloud has local presence in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. Nordcloud is one of only 2 European players in Gartner´s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services Providers 2018. We are proud to be an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, a Google Cloud Premier Partner and a Microsoft Gold Cloud Partner and Azure Expert MSP.

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