Engineering Project Manager

The individual will be responsible for managing the entire SDLC process for software products in Agile environment. In addition to managing the development team, responsible for working closely with the product management group, the architecture team, and the QA team to ensure on- time delivery of superior quality products as per roadmap and plan. Person will share regular status with management, update the plan for critical changes, highlight any risks and mitigation plan after discussion with respective Product Manager and Leads.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

- Project Planning and Status Updates- Define project scope based on product Manager inputs and work with lead for developing project plan. Organize and lead project status; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans

- Product Manager/Lead Support - Support the Product Manager/Lead in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance

- Process Management and Improvement - Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management

- Team Management - Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work

Additional Information

- Candidates must have an experience from an online product-based company, and In MS Project & Agile Project Management methodology

Minimum Requirement:

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent having 10+ years' experience with minimum 5+ years of experience in project management

- Solid understanding of and experience in using appropriate tools:

- Agile Project Management tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.

- Microsoft Project, Visio and all Office Tools

- Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.

- Strong planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.

- Proven ability to lead software development projects and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met.

Preferred Qualifications

- Sufficient level of technical background to provide highly credible leadership to engineering teams and to be able to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues

- CSM and PMP certification

Travel Expectations

- 0-10% Travel