Program Lead/Project Manager - Technology Consulting

About the role:

As Program Lead - Technology Consulting, you will be key member of the teams working on end-to-end AI and analytics solutions being built for our clients. While your primary focus will be on the data engineering and application engineering components of the overall solution, you will collaborate with internal data science teams for the ML aspects. As the person responsible for the overall success of the program, you will:

- Drive problem discovery, scoping, program management, delivery etc.

- Lead requirements elicitation using a combination of business acumen and technology understanding

- Translate solutions requirements to technical architects. Review solution design & estimation for conformity with client requirements

- Coordinate program delivery (communicating updates, bottlenecks, risks, delays etc)

- Measure and articulate value of solutions developed to help drive solution adoption by business teams.

- This role involves a combination of hands-on contribution, customer engagement and team management.

Required Skills & Experience:

- Program delivery experience in multiple data systems (cloud / on-premise, classical RDBMS / big-data / NoSQL)

- Project planning and tracking in agile and waterfall paradigms

- Experience with different source systems (flat-files to ERP systems to real-time sources) and their impact on design, functioning, and maintenance of data systems

- Experience working on programs with significant application engineering and development components

- (Preferable) exposure to MLOps/DevOps in the context of cloud based predictive analytics solution deployment

- Team management and client stakeholder management

- 15-18 years of relevant experience, some of which has been in hands-on development.

- Techno-functional background preferred (Engineering + MBA)