"Technical Project Manager"
Job Purpose :
- Recommend efficient and cost-effective solutions to meet business requirements
- Provide technical support and expertise to improve and maximize overall business outcomes across functions and teams
- Ensure that all process outcomes are in line with the organizations short term and long-term business goals
- Responsible to successfully plan and manage programs/projects end-to-end, along with coordinating with various functions/departments (internal and external) in the program/project
- Responsible to successfully execute programs/projects end-to-end and be able to coach teams on Agile adoption
Key Responsibilities :
- End to end ownership of complex and large-scale cross-functional initiatives, including project definition, project planning, road map planning, resource planning and project execution
- Estimate work efforts required to deliver projects and create a detailed plan for the team
- Monitor projects from initiation through delivery and partner with stakeholders to drive projects as per set plans
- Persistently and creatively removes obstacles that slow down or prevent programs from delivering against project objectives
- Reporting of key metrics for sprint execution, test execution, bugs, issues, risk, etc. to the leadership / project team
- Run scrum and sprint grooming
- Act as Agile coach in implementing Agile across various business lines
- Manage team members directly and provide guidance for improving their efficiency, act as mentor to motivate them to bring the best for themselves and organization
- Manage project budget and costs - internal and external, work with business to identify project ROI
- Transform projects from Waterfall or other model into Agile methodology, following defined SDLC
- Emphasize on automated reporting of projects/programs and create standard reporting templates
- Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations, and resolve dependencies
- Prepare metrics based periodic reports and dashboards with support from the stakeholder functions for management review
- Ensure that controls are adequate to meet legal, regulatory, policy, standards, and security requirements (ISO, RBI, NHB, PCI etc.)
- Liaise with IT-Governance team for all internal and external audits
- Support Information Security Governance, Operations, Compliance Programs
- Connect with sources who help update on current industry trends and security challenges
Job Requirements :
Personality traits ; Very strong logical thinking capabilities and analytical skills
- Excellent problem solving and decision making and investigating skills
- Self-Driven and Initiator
- Ability to multitask effectively and work under pressure
- An excellent conceptual, lateral and pragmatic thinker
- Strong people leadership skills with ability to mentor, develop and lead teams to their full potential
- Supports the adoption of key engineering excellence practices, including Reflection, Learning, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Test Automation, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development
- Ability to thrive in complex situations and jump at the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to deliver projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency in time management, project management skills, exposure to internal and external audits
- Highly energetic and motivated individual, who can enjoy challenging environment and align to Change Management
- Self-starter and self-learner
Technical skills :
- Certifications such as CSM is mandatory
- Certifications such as CSPO, PMP, Prince2, ACP, SAFe are preferred
- At least 5 years of experience in implementing projects on Agile
- Hands-on experience on Atlassian applications like JIRA is mandatory
- Proficiency in managing web and mobile application
- Ability to coach teams through the software development life cycle using Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices
- Experience in product engineering/start-up company (preferred)
Qualifications :
- Work experience of 5+ years in Technical Program Management
- Overall 10+ years of experience in software development and handling operations for complex distributed systems
- At least 2-3 years of coding experience in Java/.Net/ABAP preferred
- Experience as a Tester or Business Analyst preferred
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