Project Manager

Job Responsibilities

Overall

• Function as moderator and coach for platoons and project teams. Promote an atmosphere of ownership, trust, and enthusiasm; facilitate alignment within teams and across the broader domain.
• Onboard new platoon and project team members to Agile and DevOps ways of working.
• Engage, influence, and collaborate with internal Halliburton Landmark and HDS teams such as R&D, CloudOps, Customer Success, Performance Engineering, and PMO.
• Partner with PMO to align project management processes, reporting cadence, and governance expectations across the domain
• Coordinate with multiple teams to maintain clear ownership, communication, and alignment on shared priorities and delivery commitments

Quality management

• Set the project framework, governance and guidelines
• Standardize tools when feasible (OpenEarth, AzureDevOps, Teams, Figma, iEnergy, etc.)
• Provide best practices to platoons and project teams in Agile and DevOps methodologies and processes. In particular, organize, prepare, moderate, and track team ceremonies:
• Release Planning (MVPn and MVPn+1 to many)
• Sprint planning, incl. commitment to working agreements
• Pre-planning
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint retrospective, incl. definition of done
• Create the backlog and assign stories to sprints. Ensure stories match stakeholder expectations
• Ensure teams follow the Built For Core (B4C) and Back To Community (B2C) governance process.
• Help liaise with other SmartDigital projects and teams to support rapid knowledge sharing and alignment.

Time management

• Provide regular updates to management, stakeholders, and PMO. Create standardized reports, including burn-down charts and other metrics relevant for process transparency across teams and the domain.
• Project and measure team velocity and delivery across assigned teams. Ensure team members remain focused on priorities and are contributing toward shared delivery goals.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, and cross-team dependencies.
• Track and manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and follow-ups to ensure blockers are visible and addressed in a timely manner

Cost management

• Plan and mobilize teams for MVPn and, where applicable, MVPn+1 and other related projects to support capacity planning, bench creation, and resource alignment across the domain.
• Hire and manage 3rd party vendors where appropriate.
• Ensure proper budgeting and prioritization process
• Reports on a regular basis project costs against budget. Realigns resources, budget or expectations to fit.

Requirements

Formal

• 4 year college degree, preferred in Engineering or Computer Science
• 2-4 years leading Agile or DevOps teams, preferably certified as Scrum Master. Experience in cloud architecture desired

Informal

• Excellent technical, coaching and communication skills
• Leadership without authority, appreciation, empathy and motivational persuasiveness
• Service minded, structured, will-do attitude
• Skilled at detecting, understanding and solving problems (organizational and technical)