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Who We Are

Today’s ambitious business environment is more than that – it’s a period of disruption between the pandemic, global business change and internal process complexity. For us to focus on simplicity and the best customer experience, we need great talent and the right abilities to be successful. This is now a mantra for our Cisco leadership team and for us.

The Cisco IT team is changing the way we run Cisco’s operations by improving the power of technology, the best of business processes and superior data insights. Together, we will Reimagine the Cisco experience. Show the world how to Reinvent applications and demonstrate the future of the Internet to Showcase the power of Cisco: our people, products, processes, systems, and data. Please join us and make this journey together!

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join the Database and Replication Services team, which strives to design, implement, and support efficient, secure, scalable database platforms to support Business functions. We do this through innovative technologies, and a focus on driving growth in our database platforms while investing in building automation for everything we do. In this role, you will be leading projects in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and be responsible for delivering against key priorities. The ideal candidate is someone with a consistent track record of delivering projects and programs, a creative problem solver, who can rapidly respond to advanced issues.

Responsibilities

• Drive database platform projects and deliver using agile and more formal techniques, as appropriate.
• Scrum Master for multiple initiatives in parallel, working with global teams.
• Agile/Scrum Practitioner who also serves as a Coach and Mentor within the organization.
• Understand high-level technical architecture and be able to facilitate communication, conflict resolution and drive decisions on appropriate solutions.
• Drive project initiation, planning, execution, and status reporting.
• Initiate and drive various ceremonies as mandated in Agile principles such as sprint planning, daily standup, retrospective and product backlog grooming
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all collaborators.
• Anticipate, manage, and resolve risks and issues, supervise progress against achievements, deadlines, and budget. Report on these items, including dependency information, to key stakeholders.
• Project administration and the timely production of project documentation. (e.g., project plans, reports, metrics etc.)

Who You’ll Work With

You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired. Imagine a more secure and smarter world with unlimited bandwidth.

Who You Are

We are looking for dedicated and passionate individuals who are looking to work alongside a team to develop and improve database platforms for enterprise workloads. You have a fantastic understand of what it takes to own, plan, handle and deliver results in a constantly evolving ecosystem. You will need to have experience working in an agile framework revolving around database platforms and/or IT infrastructure platforms. You will also need to have experience using CI/CD practices and other principles while working on certain tasks. We require applicants to have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or relevant work experience for the position. A PMP, SAFe Scaled Agility (SA) certification is an added advantage.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, a related field, or relevant work experience is required.
• 5+ years of overall experience, 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager leading Agile Teams.
• Solid experience in agile delivery model using Jira Align and Jira Cloud.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Familiarity with Continuous delivery / Continuous Integration, software development practices, and tools like JIRA, Rally.
• Knowledge of project management principles and the ability to apply the principles, tools, and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute technology projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellence in technical Project management, knowledge on database platforms and/or IT infrastructure platforms and technologies.
• Deep understanding of PMI framework with 5+ years of experience managing IT Infrastructure projects.

Behavioral Competencies

• Possess solid ability to solve sophisticated problems creatively.
• Possess excellent verbal and writing skills.
• Must be a great teammate and work well in small and large group environments.
• Must be highly driven and motivated with high level of initiative.
• Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams and stakeholders to achieve goals.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an expansive future for all.

We adopt digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!