Project Manager - Software Development/Maintenance & Package Implementation

Project Manager - Microsoft Technology

Responsibilities:

- Lead project independently (Fixed and T&M) in areas of software development, maintenance and package implementation

- Take end to end responsibility for customer satisfaction, contract fulfilment and project profitability

- Manage scope of the project during its execution including change requests

- Communication with relevant stakeholders during the life of the project

- Perform to organization norms on metrics (eg effort, schedule and defect rates)

- Manage relationships with clients

- Develop statements of work (SOWs) for new projects

- Identify and manage risk during the project life

- Create a motivated high performance team

- Give formal and periodic feedback to individual team members

- Ensure software engineering guidelines and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Experience and competencies required:

- 10 to 15 years of exp in IT with 3+ years of Project management experience

- Experience in project management using agile methodologies, estimation

- Requirements elicitation and analysis

- Experience in conducting Root Cause analysis and presenting remediation plans

- Ability to resolve conflicting situations

- Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools: JIRA, Service now, TFS, or equivalent, Microsoft Project, VSS, Sonar cube, Jenkins, and all Office Tools

- Ability to proactively call out issues and risks and provide solutions

- Consultative & Solution-oriented - Ability to propose design and development approach

- Understand and appreciate solution frameworks and architectures

- Prefer developer background, tech savy

- Support presales initiatives in estimation

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills

- Ability to work in continuous integration setup

- Demonstrates good analysis, collaboration, and problem solving

- Ability to multi-task and juggle competing priorities

- Quick learner, innovative, proactive, flexible, and adaptable

- Short term travel-ready and travel-willingness

Education: Bachelor's / Master's degree in a Software discipline