Feature Owner Team Leader

About the project
As FOT Leader (Project Manager) you will ensure efficient E2E planning and execution of features, cooperating closely with PM/PO community & technical staff. 

Responsibilities 

• Leads the execution of a FOT through it phases against agreed program targets

• Leads E2E feature development and delivery across all virtual teams contributing to the FOT

• Facilitates splitting of feature plan to team backlogs with FOT members and product owners, ensuring commitments to the feature delivery plan

• Aligns development plans across all impacted areas

• Checks and manages interfaces and dependencies to other features and FOTs

• Represents FOT and makes commitments towards Program on behalf of FOT

• Single point of contact towards Program Management

• Creates new FOT or assigns feature to existing FOT

• Ensures proper FOT resourcing with FOT Members through Product Owners of contributing development units

• Conflict resolution and escalation to R&D management in case of resource issues

• Facilitates FOT meetings

• Ensures FOT follows all needed processes

• Risk management for the feature

• Prepare risk mitigation and recovery plans

• Fosters evolution of the FOT WoW towards self-organizing team

• Driving continuous FOT way of working improvement e.g. via FOT retrospectives and RCA/EDA

• Documents FOT improvements

Requirements 

• Experience in IT project management, including management of several projects in parallel

• Experience in Software Development or Testing is a plus

• Strong interpersonal skills and experience in a multicultural and cross functional team environment

• Abillity to perform well in challenging situations and under high pressure

• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen

• Fluent English, both spoken and written

Technologies 

• Product: C++

• Backlog: JIRA

• CI/CD: Jenkins

• VCS: Git

• MS Office