IT Project Manager (Agile)

About the role

Allied Reliability is seeking an IT Project Manager in Houston, TX to mentor teams as they transition to an Agile approach and new ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Embody an agnostic agile mindset and experimental approach, applying the right mix of support and challenge to empower teams to continuously improve.
• Coach cross‑functional teams on optimizing Agile ways of working, identifying waste, and improving feedback loops.
• Contribute to the Agile Community of Practice (CoP) regarding Lean‑Agile principles and practices.
• Embed with a cross‑functional team of product owners, project managers, UX designers, engineering managers, and other internal stakeholders to facilitate outcomes of discovery and definition phases.
• Facilitate key Team‑of‑Teams events, retrospectives, and workshops (e.g., story mapping, value‑stream mapping, Scrum of Scrums, product alignment).
• Ensure synchronization between Team‑of‑Teams and team‑level Agile cadence.
• Maintain focus on Lean/Kanban metrics, including leading and lagging indicators.
• Raise visibility of Team‑of‑Team level impediments, risks, and dependencies.
• Support and generate Agile project‑management reports (e.g., Jira queries, planned vs. earned value reports).
• Ensure psychological safety and an engaging space for team collaboration, learning, and agility maturity assessments to drive continuous, measurable improvements.
• Work closely with the platform vertical lead to ensure alignment between strategy and execution.
• Coach other team members, review team dynamics, and assess health.

Mandatory Skills

• Skilled in Lean‑Agile practices, facilitation, teaching, and coaching.
• Knowledge of mentoring, transformation, and business productization, including ideation, design, development, testing, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Ability to understand and properly utilize market‑standard tools used in the Agile space.

Domain Knowledge

• Trading in financial services and/or energy trading.
• Knowledge of Energy Trading Risk Management (ETRM) systems required.

Prior Experience

• Data warehousing and data migration experience required.

Technology Experience

• Databricks
• Unity Catalog
• Delta Sharing

Optional Skills

• Scrum Master certifications (CSM, PSM I, PSM II, PSM III, CSP, CTC).

Project Details

Portfolio: Shell IDT/Downstream & Renewables, IDT/Trading & Supply/TS – Crude & Products, TS – Products Investments.

Program: Products Data Exchange. Project: Legacy Datawarehouse Migration (PDW). Description: Products Data Exchange is a one‑stop shop for product data and technical foundations, expanding analytic and digital capabilities and enabling data science and artificial intelligence on cloud technology. The centralized data repository supports the PDS Vision 2030, providing a consistent, cleansed view of global P&L and exposure, near‑real‑time access to curated datasets, and integration with business applications such as Endur Products and DEX.

Project type: IT Project. Project class: Application major enhancement, project planning & tracking, project governance, project assurance & compliance.