Technical Project Manager

Role Accountability and Responsibilities :

- Own and drive sprint-based process for agile development and delivery of products.

- Work closely with product managers, customer-facing project managers, and technical team to understand requirements, establish plans, goals and timelines for products and projects, track progress, and provide timely updates.

- Motivate the engineering and QA team members to achieve maximum pace and efficiency during projects.

- Work with the team leads to define deliverables and specify the acceptance criteria for their part of work.

- Determine the priority order of all the deliverables and their tasks.

- Help the team in estimating effort required, making sure that it is a reasonable estimate.

- Communicate regularly the current state of deliverables.

- Step in to fill any communication gaps and mentor team members.

- Communicate any blockers or issues faced by the team in India as well as respond to any issues raised by the US team.

- Verifying that when the work item is delivered, it meets the acceptance criteria defined at the outset.

- Conduct retrospective every sprint end to find and take action on feedback:

- What did the team do well

- What could have been done better

- Where did the team fail

- Things to improve next time

- Communicate regularly with the leadership in the US to understand their expectations and where they would like to see change(s).

- Conduct sprint planning, grooming, prioritisation meetings for every sprint

- Drive daily scrum calls, ensuring task updates/progress and sprint is on schedule.

- Monitor sprints for quality and productivity metrics as agreed with higher management

Requirements and Desired Skills & Experience :

Qualification :

- Engineering CS/IT Only from top 100 Enginering colleges PAN India.

- MBA would be a plus. Scrum Master certification is a plus.

- Overall minimum 8 to 12 years of work experience

- 5+ years of mobile based application development experience (preferred)

- Experience working on Continuous integration /Continuous deployment project.

- 5+ years of web-based application development experience (preferred)

- 5+ years TPM Experience

- Strong proven experience leading and delivering projects with Agile methodology (Scrum framework, Scrum Master role) in fast-paced startup environments.

- 2+ years BA Experience

- Data validation / testing experience strongly preferred

- Excellent communication skills

- Excellent documentation skills

- Business Analysis / Requirements Gathering skills

- Experience in the upstream Oil and Gas industry preferred