We're seeking a highly skilled Technical Project Manager to spearhead our enterprise-wide migration from Rally to Jira Software. In this role, you'll lead the planning and tracking efforts, developing and maintaining a comprehensive migration strategy with step-by-step processes, guides, and communications. Your mission will be to ensure data is migrated accurately, securely, and efficiently, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and project customers.
You'll coordinate, build, and maintain a repeatable migration process, planning, implementing, and monitoring projects and activities. Identifying and resolving migration issues will be crucial, as you'll provide technical support to ensure a smooth and efficient transition. Additionally, you'll conduct office hours, forums, awareness sessions, and working sessions to facilitate seamless knowledge transfer.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in computer science or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of project management and agile/scrum experience in IT.
- Exposure to Software Development methodologies, Quality Assurance and Security & Control procedures.
- Excellent planning and communication skills, flexibility to accommodate working across different time zones and sensitivity to cultural and geographical differences.
- Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient knowledge and use of Backlog tools, such as Jira and Rally.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision-making scenarios.
- Knowledge of the Atlassian Platform tools (Jira Software, Jira Service Manager, and Confluence)
- Some experience or knowledge of the following:
- GitHub, Linux, Python, Shell, Bash, rest API.
Ford Motor Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, as we are committed with a diverse workforce, and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran and basis of disability.
- Lead the planning and tracking migrating Rally to Jira for the Enterprise Technology organization.
- Develop and maintain migration strategy, step-by-step processes, guides, and communications to ensure that the data is migrated accurately, securely, and efficiently. You will work with other members of the Migration team, business members, and customers of the project to assist with the migration.
- Coordinate, build, monitor, and maintain a repeatable migration process.
- Plan, implement, and monitor migration projects and activities.
- Identify and resolve migration issues and provide technical support for the migration process to ensure that it runs smoothly and efficiently.
- Conduct Office Hours, Forums, Awareness and Working sessions.
- Identify opportunities to improve migration processes and improve the efficiency of handling data.
- Take part in continuous improvement Kaizens as and when required.
- Innovate and iterate on PM processes and share the learnings.
- Actively participate in all team agile ceremonies:
- Backlog Refinement/Planning
- Stand-ups
- Retrospectives