681 Agile Project Managers jobs in South Africa

• Program Leadership: Oversee multiple Agile projects and coordinate dependencies across teams to ensure smooth delivery of complex initiatives.
• Agile Expertise: Champion Agile principles and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar) while tailoring approaches to fit the companies evolving needs.
• Technical Collaboration: Work closely with software developers, architects, and data engineers to understand and support Agile technical practices such as continuous integration, automated testing, DevOps pipelines, and incremental delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring alignment on goals, scope, and priorities.
• Delivery Oversight: Track progress at the program level, proactively identify risks, manage dependencies, and remove impediments to keep initiatives on track.
• Continuous Improvement: Facilitate retrospectives, coach teams, and promote a culture of learning and improvement across the program.
• Reporting & Transparency: Provide clear and timely program updates to leadership, highlighting risks, progress, and key metrics.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, or Agile Delivery Manager in a software development environment.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with software engineering teams.

• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong understanding of program management tools and Agile frameworks.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Prior experience in a high-growth tech company or startup environment is an advantage.

• Flexible Working Arrangements : Whether youre a night owl or an early bird, they offer hybrid and remote options to suit your lifestyle
• Comprehensive Benefits : From a wellness program to home office reimbursements and continuous learning opportunities, they have got you covered.
• Team Culture : Fun team-building activities, regular socials, and a supportive, inclusive culture that values transparency, accountability, and work-life balance.
• Performance Incentives : Competitive salaries, ESOP, and recognition for your hard work.

Job Classification

Job Req

Closing date - 13 October 2025

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Projects

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To manage and deliver medium projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed. Projects could be associated with any discipline e.g. property, engineering, information technology, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will play an active role in providing mentorship and coaching on agile best practices to junior staff. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals
• To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy
• To manage the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects/solutions or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation to realize the business strategy.
• Escalates impediments, manages risk, helps assure value delivery and helps drive continuous improvement
• Hybrid role that balances Agile leadership and project/program management to help software development teams build and deliver solutions more efficiently
• Leveraging the solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning large development programs
• Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
• Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
• Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope.
• Manage project budget within project scope.
• Deliver projects on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance.
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations.
• Ensure management of scope including coverage of client requirements and based on estimations.
• Manage delivery of project against agreed schedule.
• Meet requirements by providing advice to clients on the most appropriate Project management approach, identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, and define the level of participation in project, map their communication needs and manage stakeholder engagement strategies through the project plan.
• Manage each stakeholder group actively through the change cycle.
• Conduct business change impact across process, systems, and roles according to the change management plan.
• Manage the stakeholders by ensuring an understanding of the behaviours and operations and by defining strategies in project schedule.
• Keep clients and management informed.
• Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client.
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope and signed off by stakeholders.
• Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required.
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope and signed off by stakeholders.
• Ensure sufficient resource allocation.
• Manage delivery of medium projects according to prevailing Project Management methodology.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification

NQF level 7 qualification or Honours degree in Project Management or Business management

Essential Certifications

• Relevant certification in PM practises or methodology (PRINCE/ PMBOK ETC)

Preferred Certifications

Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification

Minimum Experience Level

5-8 years working experience in project environment of which 5 years in a PM role

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Industry trends
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Principles of financial management
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Principles of project management
• Communication Strategies
• Decision-making process
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Financial management
• Information Technology concepts

Behavioural Competencies

• Influencing
• Customer Orientation
• Earning Trust
• Continuous Learning
• Monitoring Information
• Leveraging Feedback
• Planning and Organizing

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

Job Description
About Us
is a leading ISO certified Philippines offshore outsourcing company that provides dedicated remote staff to some of the world's leading international companies. Outsourced is recognized as one of the Best Places to Work and has achieved Great Place to Work Certification. We are committed to providing a positive and supportive work environment where all staff can thrive. As an Outsourced staff member, you will enjoy a fun and friendly working environment, competitive salaries, opportunities for growth and development, work-life balance, and the chance to share your passion with a team of over 1000 talented professionals.

About The Client (AU)
Since inception in 1996, we have been providing successful and innovative compliance management solutions to businesses both nationally and internationally.

Beginning with web-based solutions around risk advice and compliance tools to leading multinational organisations, we rapidly moved through provision of risk management and compliance applications, to complete enterprise planning and monitoring systems.

Our current systems connect live risk and WHS information from an extensive repository of risk and safety data, to proprietary algorithms to provide automated risk platforms built for any size and organisational structure. This ensures organisations of all sizes can accurately and efficiently identify and mitigate any risk in a timely fashion to reduce injuries, environmental catastrophe and major security breaches including acts of terrorism.

Already a leader in the use of digital and NFC technology to support risk and compliance, the client's future plans include further innovation in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and AI.

Technical Project Management

• Translate business goals into actionable technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Manage cross-functional communication between product, engineering, design, and operations teams.
• Monitor project progress, track KPIs, and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Serve as the point of escalation for project-level issues and ensure corrective actions are taken.
• Report regularly to leadership and stakeholders on project status, risks, and outcomes

Scrum Master

• Tech Stack: .Net Core, React, MAUI, MS Azure
• Good understanding of Micro-services
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines
• Familiarity with AI Integration
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives).
• Coach the team in Agile principles and ensure adherence to Scrum best practices.
• Work closely with Product Owners to ensure backlog clarity, prioritization, and refinement.
• Remove impediments to the team's progress and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Protect the team from scope creep and ensure focus on delivering business value.
• Track sprint velocity, burndown, and other Agile metrics to optimize performance

Work Schedule (Day shift)

• Monday to Friday; 7AM-4PM (Manila Time)

Work Setup (Onsite)

• Quezon City (Eastwood, Libis / SM North)
• Pasig (Zeta Building, Bridgetowne)
• Alabang, Muntinlupa
• Clark, Pampanga
• Cebu
• Will transition to hybrid setup after 3-6 months once the team has been established
• Training in AU a few months after onboarding

By clicking on the "I'm Interested" button I hereby allow Outsourced Quality Assured Services, Inc. ("Outsourced") to store and collect my personal information for the purposes of employment application. As such, I agree and authorize Outsourced to collect, store, or continue to use my personal information for the above-stated purpose, and to retain my personal information for a period of 1 year, and for these purposes only.

Job Classification

Senior Agile Project Manager

Closing date: 10 October 2025

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Projects

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To plan, direct and co-ordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished and to develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, in line with the business strategy. The Project Manager will also monitor and report on project and deliverable progress, run agile ceremonies, and provide mentorship and coaching on agile best practices. The Project Manager will also ensuring the team is working on the right tasks at the right time, working closely with the product manager to translate epics, stories, and other items on the sprint list into actionable tasks for the delivery team

Job Responsibilities

• Relationships building with key stakeholders with primary accountability to the GT Exco Asset or Journey owners.
• Dependency management and contracting across initiatives impacting the portfolio
• Manage demand, plans and delivery from various journeys/assets, through Programme Increments and ensure strong tracking and progress visibility, financial management
• Participates in PI Planning to agree and track the commitments made
• Sprint / Squad Capacity planning (e.g., x % of existing squad) who will be doing the work
• Funding requirements (e.g., x % of squad run rate costs)
• Build, Run and Own the asset or journey end-to-end throughout its life across the POCLAC: Innovation, Small Medium Enhancements and Support & Maintenance (BAU)
• Ensure successful implementation of Agile in software projects with improved quality in accordance with business needs and strategic goals
• Provide expert level guidance to software project team in terms of process, system, tools, methods as well as communication, integration, and successful team dynamics through weekly facilitation sessions
• Integrate with diverse stakeholders by engaging and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Engage and facilitate with multiple diverse groups across a spectrum of wants and needs
• Build professional relationships though engagement and regular communication and feedback with all stakeholders using quality metrics and project status reports as drivers
• Ensure accurate cost estimation based on coverage of client requirements and project scope
• Ensure project budget are managed within project scope
• Ensure projects are delivered on target within due date, budget and according to scope and project governance
• Ensure traceability of defined benefits throughout the lifecycle of the project and escalate any deviations
• Ensure management of scope, including coverage of client requirements, are created based on estimations
• Manage project priorities effectively and ensured dependencies are catered for according to the project scope
• Ensure professional advice accepted and implemented
• Identify project stakeholders, communicate their roles, define their level of participation in project, and map their communication needs and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project plan. Be able to structure and lead multidisciplinary and multi-level stakeholder engagements with the ability to synthesize and communicate in a non-technical language
• Ensure each stakeholder group is actively managed through the change cycle
• Ensure business change impact is conducted across process, systems, and technology in accordance with change management plan
• Ensure roles and strategies are defined, and behaviors and operations are understood
• Ensure the change management process is led and supported together with the client
• Ensure satisfactory post implementation review and performing retrospectives/inspect & adapt sessions as required
• Ensure client needs are accurately captured in scope
• Ensure sufficient resource allocations
• Manage delivery of large and complex projects according to prevailing project management methodology
• Conduct effective resource negotiation and allocation

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification

Project Management

Essential Certifications

• PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)

Preferred Certifications

Project Management or closely related Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile certification

Minimum Experience Level

8-10 years experience working in a project environment of which 2-3 years working with medium to high complexity projects

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Industry trends
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Principles of financial management
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Principles of project management
• Communication Strategies
• Decision-making process
• Governance, Risk and Controls

Behavioural Competencies

• Decision Making
• Influencing
• Planning and Organizing
• Work Standards
• Applied Learning
• Customer Orientation
• Earning Trust

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team

At Exaze, we constantly seek exciting talent to join an organization that believes in nurturing dreamers, innovators, and doers willing to expand their horizons in the software industry.

We seek a highly skilled
Senior Scrum Master
to join our team.

Key Purpose:

• Is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team that does anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level
• Help form a self-managed team that is motivated, predictable, transparent and consistently delivers quality work and continually inspects and adapts in order to improve and maximize throughput whilst upholding the Agile values, principles and practices
• Implements agile best practices within a team
• Helps the development team, business and management develop a culture of collaboration - Act as a change agent to the team and organisation
• Supports the team to be self-organising and function as an accountable, high performance team
• Focused and goal driven and helps to achieve the Sprint goals

Responsibilities:

• Act as Scrum master for 2 – 4 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Facilitate Scrum Events ensure that they are focused and productive (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming)
• Help facilitate Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning Sessions
• Assist the Product Owner in prioritisation and scheduling of work, to meet delivery time frames
• Guide/coach/mentor the development team to take on the responsibilities of the process and ownership of the product – lead the team to a self-organised state
• Build a high performing team, focusing on improving team dynamics and performance, help the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth.
• Help the team make achievable sprint commitments with the use of velocity data and team availability

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science or relevant qualification
• Minimum 8 – 10 years' experience as a Scrum Master - non negotiable
• Extesnive experience working within Scaled Agile Framework
• Relevant Agile certifications (e.g., Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), PMI-ACP).

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban, Jira, JQL, ServiceNow IT Business Management (ITBM)

Location: Sandton

• Candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted, please note that if you don't hear from us within a week consider your application as unsuccessful.