Project Overview: The Chorus project is a strategic initiative for Ocean Network Express, a leading global container shipping carrier. This multi-year program involves the complex transition of our core monolithic system into a modern microservices architecture.
Position Summary: The PMO assistant manager plays a pivotal role in enabling the successful execution of the Chorus project. This individual will support the PMO in fostering an agile culture, ensuring strategic alignment, facilitating cross-team collaboration, and providing critical insights into program health. They will act as a key enabler for our diverse agile teams, helping them to deliver high-quality software and achieve business objectives within a large-scale, distributed environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Program Coordination & Facilitation:
- Coordination of large-scale agile events, such as service design workshop, product design workshop, quarterly planning meetings, cross-team synchronization meetings, and stakeholder reviews.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between agile teams, business stakeholders, and leadership across different geographical locations (Korea, Singapore, Vietnam).
- Agile Governance & Process Support:
- Refinement of agile processes, standards, and best practices across the Chorus program.
- Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics for program health, progress, and value delivery.
- Tooling & Data Management:
- Administration and optimal utilization of agile project management tools to ensure consistent data quality and reporting capabilities.
- Extract, analyze, and present data related to team performance, feature progress, and program velocity.
- Risk & Issue Management:
- Identifying, tracking, and monitoring program-level risks and issues, collaborating with teams to define mitigation strategies.
- Knowledge Management & Continuous Improvement:
- Help organize and disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and relevant documentation across the program.
- Stakeholder Communication:
- Prepare and refine communication materials for various audiences, including executive summaries, program updates, and team-level communications.
- Financial Oversight:
- Budget Tracking & Forecasting: tracking overall program spending, forecasting future resource needs, and ensuring alignment with the allocated budget.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in project coordination, project management, or a PMO role within a software development environment.
- Experience in transformation project from enterprise level monolithic software to Micro Service Architecture using DDD (Domain Driven Design) in shipping and logistics industry
- Experience in transformation from enterprise level waterfall project into large scale Agile project in shipping and logistics industry
- Experience in transformation from on-premise enterprise infrastructure into cloud environment including DR (Disaster Recovery) system implementation
- Demonstrated understanding and practical experience with agile methodologies is essential. Experience with scaled agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS) is a significant plus.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) concepts, especially in a large-scale enterprise context.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, analyze, and present data effectively.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and facilitation skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams across different cultures and time zones.
- Experience in the shipping industry is required.
