Agile Engineering Project Manager

Experience: 

6+ years of experience in project management large and medium sized engagements 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Demonstrate excellent project management skills, inspire teamwork and responsibility with team members, provide project management expertise and leadership in the execution of complex software projects. 
• Accountable and responsible for managing and reporting project schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk and procurement for the project. 
• Consistently apply the defined project management standards and methodologies defined by the organization to assigned projects. Establish project management principles, processes, and artefacts as necessary. 
• Drive appropriate organizational change influencing stakeholders as required to ensure the successful program/project execution. 

• Ensure appropriate involvement of all stakeholders on the project as necessary 
• Plan and direct schedules, monitor budget/spending, resource allocation and utilization for the project from initiation through closure.  
• Manage project schedule and budgets – Track project metrics data (e.g., completed and in-progress work, schedule and cost variances, resource health, risks and issues etc.) and other project specific information and regularly communicate it to the project stakeholders 
• Report progress and health of the project and incorporate feedback from all stakeholders 
• Manage project communications and meetings (Daily Stand-Up Meetings, Project Reviews, AdHoc Requests) 

• Proactively manage or project risks, action items, issue resolutions, key decisions and stakeholder feedback 
• Understand dependencies and organize the activities ensuring successful completion of the project  
• Communicate regularly with the project sponsor and the team 
• Proactively identify and manage risks and issues pertaining to the project. 
• Ensure project governance practices are in place to monitor and control the project 

Experience/ Qualifications 

• PMP or similar certification with good understanding of project management and methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile 
• Strong stakeholder management skills 
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) 
• Solid decision making and prioritization skills 

• Good understanding of budgeting, estimation, and project financial management 
• Experience of working in shared resources environment with teams based across different time zones 
• Knowledge of MS Project for overall project tracking, Jira for tracking agile development and SharePoint as collaboration tool 
• Bachelors degree 

Are you looking for an opportunity to solve new business challenges through innovative technology? If yes, Noon’s Private Label team is looking for TPM to build products/solutions for our Buyers/Vendors/Manufacturers.   You will investigate solutions to complex sourcing and supply chain problems, design solutions and work closely with the Engineering team to implement them. You will work closely with business teams, technical teams and operational teams alike.  You'll need to work well cross functionally, have strong interpersonal and written communication skills, be able to operate successfully both strategically and tactically, and have a strong bias for action. We’re looking for people who are passionate about innovation, can demonstrate a high degree of ownership, and want to have fun while they build excellent products.

Job Overview:

As a Product Manager at Dhwani Rural Information Systems, you will play a critical role in the development and delivery of IT software products that support the social and development sector. You will be responsible for defining the product vision and strategy, leading the cross-functional development team, conducting market research and competitive analysis, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, and working with stakeholders to ensure the success of our products.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your expertise in product management and passion for leveraging technology for social good to make a meaningful impact in the lives of people and communities. You will work with a team of experienced professionals and have the opportunity to learn and grow in your career.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building, implementing and managing software.

• Responsible for managing the product development process from concept to end life.

• Analyse user needs and market trends to define a roadmap for existing and new products.

• Identify and implement new technologies to gain a competitive advantage.

• Set the long-term vision and strategy for the company's products.

• Communicate and evangelize product vision and roadmap to internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Define and communicate product goals and own the results.

• Oversee the product line’s life cycle and anticipate any problems.

• Identify user and stakeholder needs and develop a product plan to address them.

• Conduct customer research and analysis to understand customer behaviour and needs.

• Implement quality assurance and data protection processes.

• Prioritize features and tasks using internal tools and regularly track and review the product direction.

• Gather product requirements and document them for development projects.

• Manage collaboration with internal and external teams to ensure efficient work.

• Participate in product-level discussions, ideation, and documentation.

• Provide solutions in existing projects to the respective teams.

• Filter first-level field issues.

• Participate in feasibility discussions.

• Stay in sync with the product/project team members.

• Gather requirements and write use cases or user stories.

• Ensure test cases are in place with the QA team before the next sprint.

• Participate in sprint planning on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

• Contribute to new feature development and maintenance work.

Essential Requirements:

• Strong experience in software development and management.

• Understanding of user needs and market trends.

• Ability to identify and implement new technologies.

• Strategic thinking and strong business acumen.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage a product line's life cycle.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Experience in customer research and analysis.

• Knowledge of quality assurance and data protection processes.

• Ability to manage projects and lead a team.

• Strong sense of purpose to work in the tech for good, ICT4D, or social impact space.

• Should be responsible for Scrum Master role and taking care of proper Daily Stand Up Meeting with the team and ensure team efficiency & unblock them by resolving their concerns.
• Taking care of complete Product backlog of the Product which is going to be developed or under development.
• Should be able to define proper Sprint Cycle & timeline for particular sub-part of the Product. Should be able to plan the Sprint items in such a manner that there is some needful & working sub-part of the Product is coming out at the end of every Sprint Cycle.
• Should be able to update Product Owner timely if there is any issue/challenge in the development team.
• Should be able to timely raise alarm / red flag to Senior Management/Product Owner if there is any major challenge in the Product.
• Should be able to manage team leave plans and then accordingly planning the Sprint Cycle.
• Take care of end-to-end timely and quality delivery of the complete product.
• Additionally , should be responsible for validating the product and ensure the quality of the product by identifying the bugs in the product. Should be able to timely update the development team for the bugs and push the dev team to timely resolve the bugs/issues.

About Us

Welthungerhilfe is an international aid agency headquartered in Germany with its vision for “Zero Hunger by 2030”, the second sustainable development goal set by the UN. It has thousands of programs fighting hunger in more than 30 countries. Welthungerhilfe (https://www.welthungerhilfe.org/">https://www.welthungerhilfe.org)  (https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org/">https://www.childgrowthmonitor.org).

Child Growth Monitor (CGM) is Welthungerhilfe’s digital innovation project leveraging AI to fight child malnutrition. Around 200 million children around the world are suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition contributes to one-third of the deaths of children under the age of five. In the fight against malnutrition, detection is the first important step, but this is not an easy task: Measuring children with traditional methods is still a complex, slow, and expensive task, frequently resulting in poor data and wrong assessments of the child’s health. Early detection of malnutrition becomes the key to initiating treatment, minimizing the risk of complications, and saving lives by reducing the chances of death to a great extent.

Our solution to measure children replaces hardware (bulky measuring boards and physical scales) with off-the-shelf cell phones and AI. CGM uses augmented reality-enabled smartphones to record 3D scans of children. Artificial Intelligence is used to predict their height, weight, and middle upper-arm circumference needed to know the nutritional status of the children.

This role concerns a full-time assignment (Consultant role) working for Welthungerhilfe’s CGM project. This will convert to Full-time employment (payroll) in 1^st quarter of 2023 latest. We are in the process of setting up CGM as a registered social business in India and Germany.

What you would do to help us save millions of children's lives

You, as an Engineering Manager responsible for end-to-end software development and delivery including ownership of the components/features owned by the individual’s teams and required to be an individual contributor too. Responsible for managing and coordinating resources and processes in order to achieve quality & timely milestones of product development, this will result in transforming the lives of children, their families, community at large globally.

Your Responsibilities

• Be a highly technical, hands-on manager for a team of 8 -15 product development teams including QA to execute agile development sprints.
• Interfacing with the frontend/backend/ML/AI/DevOps team to develop end-to-end APIs, systems, and architectures.
• Building, communicating and executing robust development, documentation, and product engineering processes
• Define Strategy and Architecture for the new and existing suites of algorithms and their underlying systems.
• Work closely with data scientists, Data Engineers, Product managers, and analysts to develop analytics and ML-driven services that serve ML predictions, and generate data, Insights, and recommendations based on large amounts of data.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for data analyses, model development, validation, and implementation
• Contribute to and promote good software engineering practices across the team
• Coach, lead, and manage a dynamic team of Software and AI/ML Engineers to meet organizational objectives and grow their professional skills and capabilities.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical audiences equally well
• Actively contribute to and reuse community best practices.

Technical Skills Required:

• Must be a hands-on engineering leader as this role involves rearchitecting and reimplementing systems working alongside the engineers.
• Hands-on development experience using Python (Flask for backend), React, React Native, Nodejs, Vuejs, JavaScript, API Development, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Native Azure cloud development. (You may not need to demonstrate expertise in each of them but have some experience to manage related engineering divisions)
• Ability to coordinate across different products, engineering tasks, and implementing the modules along with scalability, security, and extensibility in mind.
• Well-versed in Flask-Python stack with backend tools such as Kubernetes etc.
• Should possess strong programming skills to write algorithms and understanding of agile development, CI/CD, sprints, code reviews

Eligibility:

• 10+ years of software development experience using an Agile development process with 3+ years of management experience.
• 2-3 years of experience working with a Growth Stage Start-up is desirable.
• Prior experience with creating and maintaining solution architecture
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrated track record in building and recruiting robust high performing teams

Personal Traits

• Smart, quick learner, proactive, comfortable working with unknowns and dynamically evolving requirements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (interpersonal)
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team to success

What You'll Get

• Working with a globally distributed team and partners such as UN agencies, Microsoft, Scientific Research Institutions across the world, etc.
• Flexible work culture & tons of learning curve
• Competitive salary package based on expertise and relevant experience.
• Chance to shape a disruptive AI-driven project to achieve the 'Zero Hunger by 2030' UN goal.

Hiring Process

• You apply
• [30 min] Preliminary discussion with HR
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Domain/Technical round screen with Head of Product / The product team
• [Optional] Scenarios-based recommendation/Culture fit phase- Where you work with us virtually for two days and suggest what's good and improvement areas. Also currently, we gauge our cultural fit with you. [Note- It’s not paid work]
• [60 min] In-depth interview: Final round screen with the Leadership team
• The next day, we evaluate your interview performance, recommendations, and cultural fit.
• Over the next 2-3 days We check references/background and inform you about the hiring decision (Yes or No with feedback)

Diversity at Child Growth Monitor:

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Diversity & Inclusion makes us better.

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• Project Management.
• Responsible for the delivery of a set of projects/ operations for a single large account or multiple accounts.
• Takes ownership of logistics and resource needs during start-up and growth of an account.
• Defines and implements transition strategy when taking over from other suppliers.
• Leads account steering committee meetings.
• Leads task forces to complete SBU-level initiatives.
• Leads account growth and sustenance through pre-sales support and constant engagement with customers in collaboration with other service lines.
• Creates teaming agreements/ sub - contracts to forge alliances/ partnerships for account growth/ sustenance.
• Conducts structured review of projects and audits projects (for process compliance) and fixes the gaps with corrective actions.
• Benchmarks against industry best practices and drives/manage change within the delivery structure, processes/ operations accordingly.
• Drives innovations to improve customer service at the account level.

Requirements

• Looking for Strong Experience in Enterprise Learning and Corporate Learning Projects 
• Strong Experience in End to End Project Management Lifecycle 
• Excellent Project Management Skills - Project Estimations, Project Metrics, Meeting Deadlines, Project Reporting 
• Strong in Project Planning,Project Monitoring and Followup, Project Proposals and Client Follow-Ups,

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Role and Responsibilities

1. Ensures correct adaptation of Agile practices at the team level.
2. Coaches the Product Manager on Product Backlog management.
3. Leads the team to remove impediments to reach the sprint goal.
4. Organizes the agile rituals and ceremonies, and makes sure that it is applied correctly within the team. If necessary, facilitates these rituals.
5. Guides the team in organizing motivational and inclusive events.
6. Supports onboarding of the new people who joined the team.
7. Guides the team for continuous improvement (Kaizen).
8. Responsible for the correct flow of the team’s processes and workflow.
9. Helps the team visualize its performance, impediments, and processes.
   
   Requirements

1. BTech or MTech degree in engineering or relevant fields
2. Having deep knowledge in the Agile mindset.
3. Experience in working and applying Agile for a minimum of 2 years in a software development team is required (Scrum Master role is preferred).
4. Confidence in working with multiple Agile teams.
5. Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills.
6. Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, and facilitation skills.
7. Excellent command of written and spoken English.
8. Certification of the following is a plus: PSM, PSPO, PSK, PAL, PMI-ACP, etc.
   
   Who You Are

1. Passionate about technology, processes, and making an impact.
2. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
3. A doer who takes initiative to help the teams achieve their goals regardless of boundaries, and works well in a team.