As a Senior Agile Project Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of our digital projects. This includes managing day-to-day project operations, facilitating agile processes, and ensuring alignment between teams, stakeholders, and the leadership team.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives on balancing people, process, and results, keeping projects on track and fostering strong relationships.
Key Responsibilities
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Facilitate Agile Practices: Lead and, where necessary, run key agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions to foster collaboration and maintain alignment.
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Project Tracking & Risk Management: Monitor project milestones, velocity, and workflow bottlenecks, proactively address risks, and ensure the timely delivery of objectives.
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UAT & Release Management: Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and release management activities, including coordinating deployment schedules and ensuring readiness for launch.
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Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular updates to the ELT and other stakeholders on project progress, challenges, and solutions.
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Governance: Establish strong governance frameworks and maintain effective communication with stakeholders, ensuring alignment and proactively addressing challenges.
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Reporting: Provide regular concise status reports to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), highlighting progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.
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Team Collaboration: Manage parallel priorities supporting multiple teams while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.
About you:
You're an experienced Senior Agile Project Manager with Scrum Master expertise, excelling in dynamic, collaborative environments. You seamlessly blend a people-first approach with a sharp focus on meeting deadlines and driving exceptional results, all while managing multiple workstreams. With strong facilitation skills and hands-on agile experience, you ensure that teams deliver high-quality outcomes that align with organisational goals.
To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- 4+ years of experience in digital project management within a consultancy environment.
- Proven experience as a Scrum Master.
- Ability to manage and track simultaneous actions and deliverables.
- Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
- Hands-on experience facilitating Scrum processes and managing sprint ceremonies.
- Experience with project tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, or similar).
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey updates clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Proactive problem-solving skills with the ability to remove blockers and keep projects moving.
- A strong understanding of mobile development, UAT and release management activities.
Life at Bilue
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Client-focused: We are dedicated to delivering exceptional value to our clients while supporting each other to achieve collective success.
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Flexible work: We offer 1-2 days per week in the office, balancing flexibility with the expectation that you'll go the extra mile for our clients when needed.
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Professional development: We’re committed to your personal and professional growth, offering continuous learning through Go1 (which provides unlimited access to a wide range of courses), along with support from our dedicated internal performance coach.
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Annual events: We organise annual events to foster in-person connection and team collaboration.
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Flat structure: We operate with a flat structure, where our casual, approachable executive leadership team (ELT) ensures everyone’s voice is heard.
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Internal communities: We build and nurture internal communities for knowledge sharing and collaboration, keeping everyone connected and informed.
Bilue = Big + Blue Ocean. Are you ready to set sail? Apply now!
NB. This is a full-time position based in Sydney. To be considered, candidates must have unrestricted working rights in Australia.
We believe that having balanced and diverse teams is fundamental to our success. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and valued. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, neurodiversity or disability status.
We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
