Assistant Project Manager at IT services provider specializing in Digital applications · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 6 - 12 years · Posted 25 Feb 2022

Assistant Project Manager
at IT services provider specializing in Digital applications
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

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Interview process
1st round Virtual
2nd round Face to Face
Skills:
Required Skills & Qualifications
- M.B.A or equivalent in sales and marketing with a B.E / B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical, Electronics or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in a IT Project management
- Ability to understand and explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Job Summary
Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, monitoring, and successfully delivering technology projects within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality standards. The role requires close coordination with business stakeholders, technical teams and senior management to ensure projects achieve their intended business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Lead cross-functional teams including developers, infrastructure, QA, and business analysts.
- Coordinate release planning, sprint goals, release timelines, dependencies, and deployment activities.
- Manage project scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Track project progress and provide regular status reports to stakeholders and management.
- Identify potential risks and implement appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
- Coordinate requirements gathering and ensure alignment between business and technical teams.
- Facilitate project meetings, reviews and steering committee meetings.
- Ensure projects follow organizational IT governance, security, compliance, and quality standards.
- Coordinate testing, deployment, implementation, and transition to operational teams.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicts or escalated issues.
- Manage testing, deployment, documentation, and project closure.
- Conduct project closure activities and evaluate project performance and outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT project management or a related technology role.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end IT projects.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies.
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, or enterprise applications, depending on the project portfolio.
- Strong communication, leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Key Skills
- Project planning and execution
- Stakeholder management
- Risk and issue management
- Budget and resource management
- Agile/Scrum methodology
- Change management
- Team leadership
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Reporting and documentation
- Strategic thinking and problem solving
Require Experience : Minimum 8 years
Location : Indore -Onsite
Interview mode : Virtual
Project Manager
Job Description
Company Brief
Primathon is a high quality technology solutions company, with expertise in delivering world
class softwares for our clients and empowering our engineers to become full stack in
technology and provide them 360° experience. We are growing at 300% YoY growth rate.
Led by Software Experts from IITs & NITs, Primathon’s mission is to solve quality software
engineering problems in the industry.
About the Role
We are looking for a 3+ year experienced Software Project Manager to ensure smooth
delivery & best customer experience around mobile, web frontend & backend products to
ensure product quality.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing multiple projects in parallel, ensuring
on time execution, managing team bandwidth, aligning customers and communicating right
with the customers. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy managing people while
talking about technologies, we’d like to meet you.
Job Responsibilities
● Project planning, execution, tracking and delivery within budget and scope.
● Oversee all aspects of projects, prepare detailed sprint plan, intermediate check
points, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarise progress of project.
Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project
● Track project dependencies and identify/foresee risks and plan contingencies
● Translate product requirements/project scope to detailed plan
● Customer interfacing and leading status calls
● Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs
● Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless
execution of projects
● Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant
stakeholders
Skills and Qualifications
● 3+ year of working experience in project management of software development
of products and services
● Team Handling experience must
● Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
● Experience with complete project life cycle from inception to deployment
● Strong experience with Agile Scrum methodology, Build Management, DevOps
practices
● Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
● Should have technical background in executing/contributing to
Telecom/Networking/Digital (web and mobile applications)
Education: B.tech/ M.tech only
Location: Gurgaon
Work type: Work from office
Experience: 3+ Year of working experience
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners or with notice in 30 days only
ROLE SUMMARY:
In this role, you will be responsible for supporting people, technical processes, and engineering execution to ensure projects are delivered as per scope, budget, and timelines.
This role includes developing detailed project plans and comprehensive technical documentation, managing project Engineers and their availability, measuring engineering performance, tracking progress, and communicating project status to clients and internal stakeholders. You will work directly with Solutions Architects, Tech Leads, and Engineering teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, drive system design feasibility, and unblock engineering bottlenecks.
You will be a reliable and crucial team member who can anticipate client needs and translate complex technical requirements into actionable project milestones.
As a Technical Project Manager, you will be the point of contact for all stakeholders from initiation to closure and will be responsible for leading the technical delivery team to achieve project objectives. You will work towards balancing technical constraints, technical debt, and Engineer availability on the project. You will report project status to client and internal stakeholders, escalate technical and operational issues as needed, and perform risk management to identify and mitigate architectural and delivery risks while maintaining strong advocacy within your spheres of influence.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Technical Project Manager with 7+ years experience: Including minimum 3 years of IT (Mobile/Web) project management experience and a prior background as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or Developer.
Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
Must have handled end-to-end SDLC projects as a Technical Project Manager or Scrum Master.
WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?
Handle a portfolio of technical projects and clients in parallel and across geographies.
Develop an execution plan for projects, release schedules, CI/CD milestones, and team allocation.
Partner with technical leads to review high-level system designs, break down complex requirements into epics and user stories, and challenge technical estimates effectively.
Maintain strong relationships with product delivery, engineering leads, sales teams, clients, and account managers.
Expertise in project estimation, planning, tracking, scope control, technical risk and issues management, as well as engineering status reporting.
GOOD TO HAVE:
Hands-on or architecture exposure to.NET/Java/AWS/Azure or microservices architectures.
PMP / PMI-ACP / CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) certification.
Jira/Confluence project management tools expertise, Git workflows, and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
COMPETENCIES:
Strong commitment to professional client service and engineering excellence.
Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation), persuasive, and negotiating skills—with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Encourage, motivate, and mentor team members on agile practices and technical ownership.
Proactive can-do and technical problem-solving approach to the job.
Regards
Manage engineering projects from requirements gathering and planning through development, testing, release, and closure. Create project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and delivery schedules. Coordinate with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Software Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and other stakeholders. Track project progress, identify delays and dependencies, and drive corrective actions. Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other project ceremonies where required. Maintain project trackers, RAID logs, action items, and status reports. Identify and proactively manage project risks, technical dependencies, resource constraints, and delivery issues. Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to leadership and stakeholders. Coordinate releases and ensure development, QA, deployment, and business teams are aligned. Manage scope changes and assess their impact on timelines, resources, and deliverables. Ensure engineering deliverables meet agreed requirements, timelines, and quality standards. Work with technical teams to understand project dependencies and translate them into actionable project plans. Help resolve cross-team blockers and facilitate effective communication between technical and business teams. Monitor resource allocation and work with engineering leadership to address capacity constraints. Drive continuous improvement in project delivery processes and engineering collaboration.
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Strong IT Project Manager Profile with cross-functional delivery and Agile/Scrum ownership and Insurance domain exposure
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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 6+ years of proven experience as an IT Project Manager, with atleast the recent 3+ years in insurance industry leading cross-functional teams and delivering IT projects on time, within scope, and within budget
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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have experience collaborating with business, development, QA, and architecture teams to define project goals and success criteria
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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have hands-on experience facilitating sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups for efficient Agile/Scrum execution
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Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have experience monitoring project performance, identifying and resolving risks and issues, and maintaining detailed project documentation (charters, plans, status reports)
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Mandatory (Experience 5): Must have experience mentoring and leading a team of developers
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Mandatory (Skill 1): Must have strong command of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies (Fixed Bid project experience a plus)
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Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal/communication skills to engage senior management and clients
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Mandatory (Skill 3): Must have strong analytical thinking — able to analyse complex problems, identify solutions, and make informed decisions
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Mandatory (Tools): Must be hands-on with JIRA, MS Project, and similar tools
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Mandatory (Domain): Insurance domain expertise — IT projects within insurance, with an understanding of processes, regulations, and customer needs
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Mandatory (Note): Candidate should be willing to work during EST shift (9.30 PM-6.30 AM) if needed as the client is based in US and they have US clients
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Preferred (Commercial): Experience managing gross margins, project cost, P&L, and profitability.
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Preferred (Certification): PMP, PRINCE2, or Scrum Master certification
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Preferred (Domain Knowledge): Familiarity with digital transformation, automation, and emerging technologies in insurance
Role: Project Manager
Experience: 6–8 Years
Location: cochin
Shift: 2nd Shift – 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage projects from initiation to delivery.
- Create and maintain project plans, milestones, schedules, and dependencies.
- Track risks, issues, resources, capacity, and project budgets.
- Coordinate with teams and stakeholders and conduct project meetings.
- Assign and monitor tasks to ensure timely delivery.
- Prepare periodic project status reports and meeting minutes.
- Drive stakeholder communication and resolve project challenges.
- Support continuous improvement and post-project reviews.
Mandatory Skills:
- 6–8 years of Project Management experience
- JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Office, SharePoint
- Project planning & delivery
- Risk / Issue / Dependency management
- Stakeholder management
- Willingness to work 3 PM–12 AM IST
Strong Technical Project Manager Profile with hands-on delivery ownership and technical depth
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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 8+ years of experience, including 4+ years leading cross-functional software product delivery across multiple medium-sized companies
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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have proven experience delivering software projects from concept through production in a service-delivery environment within a mid-sized organisation.
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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have strong experience with Agile/Scrum, estimation techniques, release planning, and end-to-end project execution — including release readiness, production rollouts, rollback planning, hypercare, and customer acceptance.
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Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have experience managing multiple workstreams, cross-team dependencies, and stakeholders in fast-paced environments, and building/managing project teams from initiation to delivery.
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Mandatory (Experience 5): Must have experience with integrations (REST APIs, IdP, payment gateways, CRM, ERP, POS) and familiarity with CI/CD, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and the deployment lifecycle
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Mandatory (Experience 6): Must have experience working with global customers (US/EU) in a customer-facing delivery role, with international exposure.
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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have a high-level understanding of backend systems, REST APIs, and microservices architecture (Node.js exposure preferred), plus system design principles (scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, performance).
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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must be able to participate in architecture discussions, review technical proposals, evaluate trade-offs, and constructively challenge engineering decisions.
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Mandatory (AI): Must have experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude, GitHub Copilot) to improve delivery productivity.
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Mandatory (Communication): Must have excellent written and verbal communication with engineering teams, business stakeholders, customers, and leadership.
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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a mid-level service company.
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Mandatory (Certification): Must have PMP and/or CSM certification.
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Mandatory (Education): Must have a BE/MS in Computer Science or a related field
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Preferred (Background): Development background earlier in career (QA / mobile / web developer who moved into TPM); ability to create SRS/RFP; business-analysis capability.







