# Consultant Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

**Business:** CTO Data Technology

**Principal responsibilities:**

- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

- Coach teams on Agile/Scrum principles and continuously improve team maturity and delivery effectiveness.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business processes, pain points and strategic priorities.

- Conduct analysis and documentation of business requirements, user journeys and system/process impacts.

- Translate business requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and functional specifications.

- Partner with Product Owner and delivery teams to prioritize backlog items based on business value and dependencies.

- Identify delivery risks, impediments and blockers; drive timely resolution and escalation where required.

- Support UAT planning, test scenario definition and quality assurance alignment with business expectations.

- Track and report sprint and release metrics (velocity, burn-down, cycle time, delivery predictability, quality indicators).

- Build and maintain strong communication channels across business and technical teams to ensure transparency and alignment.

- Identify opportunities for process optimization and propose practical, data-driven improvements.

- Support change management, user enablement and post-implementation adoption activities.

- Own end-to-end project management activities including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control and closure.

- Define and manage project scope, timeline, milestones, resource plan and budget to ensure on-time and within-budget delivery.

- Establish and maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), governance cadence and escalation framework.

- Drive cross-team/vendor coordination and dependency management across technology, operations and business units.

- Prepare management reporting and steering committee updates on project health, delivery progress and decision points.

- Ensure compliance with organisational standards, SDLC controls and audit/regulatory requirements where applicable.

- Manage release readiness and implementation planning, including cutover, communication and post-go-live stabilization.

- Support benefits tracking and realization against approved business case/objectives.

**Requirements:**

- University degree or above.

- Minimum 10+ years of relevant working experience in technology/digital delivery, including proven experience in Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Project Manager, or hybrid delivery roles.

- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery framework, SDLC and project management methodologies (Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid).

- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication and facilitation skills.

- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

- Experience in requirement elicitation, process mapping, story writing and acceptance criteria definition.

- Hands-on experience in project planning, dependency mapping, financial/budget tracking and resource management.

- Experience with Agile and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, MS Office, Power BI, MS Project).

- High customer-centric mindset with commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

- Ability to influence diverse stakeholders and drive outcomes under pressure.

- Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance strategic and tactical priorities.

- Experience in governance reporting, risk/issue management, and senior stakeholder/SteerCo communication.

- Relevant certification(s) such as CSM/PSM, PMI-ACP, CBAP/CCBA, PMP/PRINCE2 would be an advantage.

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## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Scrum
- Project Management
- SDLC
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- MS Office
- Power BI
- MS Project

### Nice to have
- CSM/PSM
- PMI-ACP
- CBAP/CCBA
- PMP/PRINCE2

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