Associate Project Manager

Technical Lead TIFIN

Bangalore, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

●     Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●     Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●     I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

WHO WE ARE: 

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalisation. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalisation has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes. 

We use design and behavioural thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes. 

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions. 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: 

As part of TIFIN’s Technology division, you’ll be in charge of the Engineering, Architecture and tech delivery for one our products. Working directly with the executive team across Product, Design and Technology, you’ll have the opportunity to craft the future of cutting edge Financial Products using the very latest technology.

We are seeking a world-class Technology leader who can provide executive leadership for the Division’s Engineering organisation, building personalisation capabilities for financial advisors with an emphasis on integration capabilities. The VP will play a critical role in the growth of the Division and will be an integral member of the Executive team. This leader must have the market savvy and technical acumen to effectively partner both internally and externally, driving both strategy and execution, to ensure success as the preeminent AI-powered, personalisation toolbox for RIA’s. 

THE ROLE:

• Reports to TIFIN India’s CTO
• Lead Project management of technology projects
• Liaise with stakeholders to gather & understand the functional requirement
• Develop / implement software code, conduct thorough end-to-end system testing, deploy code to production, and provide post go-live support.
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WHO YOU ARE: 

• 10+ years of experience in software
• Proficient in Python, Django, Node JS, ReactJS, Pandas, GitHub/GitLab and Jira
• Understanding of React JS and other MERN stack technologies is essential
• Ability to lead, design and implement backend services
• Ability to grow and lead technology teams and drive best practices and coding standards.
• Experience with working on scalable interactive web applications
• Infrastructure knowledge including AWS, GCP, etc.
• Clear understanding of software design constructs and their implementation.
• Strong communication (written and oral) and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of attention to detail, accountability, pride in delivering high quality work and willingness to learn.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with hands-on experience and startup mindset.
• An understanding of or exposure to financial capital markets, various financial instruments (such as stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds, etc.), and financial tools (such as Factset, Reuters, etc.) would be beneficial
• Ability to own the user experience for the customer, and work across the stack from database schema, designing APIs

Job Location : Mumbai

Work Location : 8+ Years

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

· Performance linked variable compensation, including equity

· Medical insurance

· Tax-saving benefits

· Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

· Parental Leave: 6 months paid maternity, 2 weeks paid paternity leave

· Access to our Wellness trainers, including 1:1 personal coaching

for executives and rising stars

A note on location. While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore,this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION:
• Candidates with good experience with SDLC
• Over all 10 years of Experience is mandatory
• Minimum 6+ years of hard core JAVA coding experience is mandatory
• 2 years of PM experience is mandatory
• Knowledge on AWS or any other cloud technology is desirable.

POSITION PURPOSE:

Overall Responsibility in delivering quality projects and products as per the BRD within the specified time line. Should be able to lead/handle a team to write and test code effectively and must work with business owners overseas. Lead planning and/or implementation of projects. May participate in the design and/or testing phases. Facilitate the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas; develop methods to monitor project or area progress and provide corrective supervision if necessary. Work cross-functionally across teams to solve problems and implement changes. Follow defined, agreed upon project management plans.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developing a software project plan. • Ensure that projects follow the project plan and is accountable for timely delivery of all projects. • Determining the methodology used in the project. • Establishing a project schedule and determining each phase. • Providing regular updates to stakeholders.

Designation – Delivery Manager

Location – Ahmedabad/Pune

Experience – 12 to 18 Years

We are looking candidate who can join us immediately or max in 30 days.

Responsibilities 

Delivery Manager is responsible for owning the delivery of strategic account and the projects within the account. It includes providing inputs on project planning and management for established initiatives. He/She will act as lead subject matter expert within the company regarding technology and domain concerns. Additionally, they will hire and train team member to support business need. They use their industry expertise to improve all aspects of project planning and resource management. 

Bachelor/master's degree in Project Management or Technology field is required with 15+ years of experience. Hands on or working experience with one of more technology like Java, Angular, Mobile Native Development, Cloud – AWS/GCP is must. Individuals who can work well in a collaborative environment and pay meticulous attention to detail, willing to get their hands dirty to solve the problem are the key expectations from the role.

Responsibilities for Delivery Manager

• Working with key project stakeholders to formulate and communicate the business vision, to envision initial requirements, and to scope the project.
• Working closely with key stakeholders to understand project scope and requirements in terms of features and capabilities, understand business processes required to ensure end-to-end delivery of intended project results.
• Identifying and tracking deliverables while gathering and documenting project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and also own Release management
• Practices Agile methodologies like scrum/Kanban and demonstrate best practices to the team in not just execution, but to plan and present a high level plan for project.
• Own multiple projects either in or outside the same account
• Prioritize and updates task schedules. Identifies issues and resolve roadblocks.
• Creating and maintaining all project documentation and project plans.
• Tracking and reporting project progress to stakeholders on agreed cadence.
• Solid understanding of project management methodology and quality metrics is a MUST
• Ability to lead geographically distributed team with varied skills
• Strong people skills, should clearly define career growth plan, give constructive and critical feedback and promote collaborative team culture.
• Communicate the project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc. between different teams.
• Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party APIs / dependencies, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates.
• Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
• Track the progress and find issues, if any. Always work to improve the process of release.
• Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release. Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
• Provide an exhaustive view of the project status dashboard, plan and give weekly/daily executive status
• Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully.
• Team up with relevant development teams responsible for building the automation tools used to develop and deploy the software.
• Schedule the Release meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team and find roadblocks, if any.
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications lists, and dependencies.
• Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.

Qualifications for Delivery Manager

• Strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills.
• Prior experience in managing either of mobile (iOS & Android), Java, or cloud (GCP/AWS) projects is must.
• Conflict resolution to understand various obstacles and apply negotiation skills to find optimal solutions.
• Minimum of 15 + years of career experience out of which minimum 5 years should as developer & 10+ years of experience in managing or performing IT development projects using an Agile approach
• Experience in developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines and operating under tight time constraints.
• Knowledge of development technical stack on mobile, Java, Git source code management, code review process, implementing best technical guidelines would 
  qualify as frontrunner for this role
• Growth mindset & collaboration are distinguishing factors required to succeed in this role
• Ability to bridge gaps with high-level stakeholders.
• Experience with JIRA and JIRA Agile.
• Experience working with distributed teams across different locations and time zones in a culturally diverse environment.
• Demonstrated experience of projects growth is must for this role
• Engineering Degree in Computer Science is must for this role
• Technical & Project Management certifications are desired.

JD - System Analyst

1. Analysis and design of technical functionality and features.
2. Creation of requirements document and definition, Epics, User stories and addition of same to Fresh Release.
3. Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups and meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
4. Collaborate with product owner and stakeholders and clear project obstacles and impediments that could slow down the team’s progress.
5. Meet and coordinate with internal stakeholders to establish project scope, system goals, and requirements.
6. Help the team boost their productivity and performance and helps development team create high-quality products.
7. Arrange and optimize product backlog.
8. Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow.
9. Translate highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements.
10. Manage the set-up and configuration of systems. Provide documentation of all processes and training as needed.
11. Define and coordinate the execution of testing procedures and develop test cases to serve the overall quality assurance process.
12. Draw up, supervise and document testing schedules for complete systems.
13. Perform design, implementation, and upgrades of information systems to meet the business and user needs.
14. Implement best practices for scalability, support ability, ease of maintenance and system performance.
15. Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability.
16. Oversee implementation of a new system including data migration.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for an experienced technical project manager who is expected to work with various stakeholders to provide status updates as needed, mitigate project risks, anticipate bottlenecks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints.

Position overview:

As part of the Searce Cloud and Software engineering Technical Project Management team, you will work closely with the Engineering teams, Cloud Architects and Delivery Managers, and a broad range of cross-functional teams to develop and manage the execution of best practices.  We will rely on your knowledge, expertise, and previous experience as a Technical Project Manager so that you can take an active role in working with the Cloud Engineering team through various stages of the project lifecycle, alignment of processes between Architecture, Service delivery management, definition and execution of new projects related to Cloud service delivery, cost management, compliance to name a few. 

Role Responsibilities: 

• Develop, maintain and scale effective Technical Project Management capability within Software / Cloud Engineering ensuring Searce meets and exceeds Availability, Performance, Security, Compliance and Cost goals in cloud service delivery  
• End to end management of cloud and data projects from enterprise customers across the globe
• Work with all key cross-functional teams including Sales, Cloud Engineering, Software engineering and business teams to convey the technical vision for Searce digital growth and contribute to the alignment of programs, projects, and processes within Searce
• Assist software engineering and solutions engineering  teams in project design and execution plans that meet or exceed defined customer requirements; assesses technology and execution risks and collaborates with stakeholders on decisions/strategy to achieve business goals
• Work with key stakeholders & management on process issues to address deficiencies impacting organization effectiveness
• Work with the project, program stakeholders to fully scope requirements
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives
• Report progress and associated metrics
• Drive risks to mitigation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred, with a minimum of 3+ years of directly related work experience in both small and large companies with 2+ years of technical project management
• Great track record of technical project management and experience in technical specialties, methodologies, and processes
• Proven leadership in identifying and influencing the business to employ specific technologies and best‐in‐class processes; experience in Agile methodologies required
• Have a technical understanding of the challenges and issues of complex, large‐scale cloud and data migration projects
• Experience with and proven success evaluating business requirements, identifying trends, and working to build processes/best practices around project delivery
• Working knowledge of Cloud – AWS and GCP and Node, React, Python, Django. 
• ITIL V3 Foundation and PMP Certification (Not Mandatory)

Responsibilities :      

• Requirement gathering and stakeholder management for client projects.
• Scope software development projects, create various documents (e.g. SRS, wireframes etc) and define development roadmap along side technical lead.
• Coordinate with clients day to day and act as a product owner to ensure the software being developed is conceptualised and delivered per client's expectations.
• Facilitate kick off meetings, requirement meetings and status meetings.
• Setting out quality standards for various operational areas, ensuring a high quality customer experience while adhering to the SLA’s and work processes 
• Use tools such as JIRA for project management/tracking.
• Verify and validate the software on a regular basis.
• Ensure in-scope development and obtain change request approvals by evaluating against change control processes.
• Conduct impact assessments and manage risks/resolution with least impact to project constraints.
• Manage and mentor a team.
• Coordinate with sales team and participate in pre-sales activities as and when required.

The Role

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring all projects are delivered using a ‘best-practice’ project delivery approach and are delivered within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality.

Deliver high-quality shippable products as per the scope of the program. He/She will understand the key requirements and scope of the project working with the Product Owner and Business stakeholders.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Understand how the product works and how it is used by customers.
• Apply strong engineering principles to drive the development and delivery of the Hotfix and minor release. This role has the ultimate responsibility to manage customer satisfaction and team engagement.
• Technically hands-on and support and guide the team members in solutions to customers and driving the best engineering practices for developing software.
• Implement the Agile frameworks in its entirety in the capacity as a flow manager. Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed and provide timely feedback.
• Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to the Project Steering Committee as per the schedule and agreed-upon metrics. Track progress and review project tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals.
• Timely Interaction with customers on/ off-site to troubleshoot issues, suggests workarounds.
• Should be able to guide/work with the technical team for quicker resolutions and achieve productivity goals for the team.
• Should be able to drive initiatives for productivity and ticket resolution quality improvement.
• Work on providing innovative ideas to improve ticket closure quality.
• Should suggest functionality in the platform to provide ways to improve turn around time for tickets
• Should drive and provide efficient ways for resolution/fixes of common issues across the customers.
• Propose ways to reduce overall tickets, operational efficiencies, and features for product to reduce the support tickets
• Should suggest better implementation for product based on usage on Production
• Should be able to suggest/implement the optimum process for a ticket raised to fix on PROD cycle
• Propose optimum process across departments at interfacing points, do regular ticket analysis and fine-tune the process
• Work on increasing supportability to product, Lead on RED account working with various departments/stakeholders.
• Ensuring Ticket Hygiene with Goal of SLA adherence. Problem and backlog management
• Contribute to knowledge base articles for both customer and internal staff to reduce troubleshooting time and drive faster issue resolution.
• Own large customers for day to day interactions with customers as required. Ensure SLAs are adhered to the accounts
• Ensure successful transition from SE, have regular connection with customers team management and attrition management.

People Management & Recruitment:

• Recruit and manage the team - Coach and Mentor the team members on career growth including performance management discussions. Be the evangelist for a high-performance culture
• Responsible for Resource planning & Optimization driving with utilization to timely deliverables.
• Should engage the team with team building and motivational activities.

What You Bring to the Team:

• 5-7years of solid experience in software product development. Should be in a manager role for at least 4+ years.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Computers Engineering or equivalent degree in Computer Science
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
• Excellent time management and organisational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality 
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles 
• SCRUM, APM and other agile certificates will be nice to have

Technical Ability:

• Should have experience in transitioning projects (Development and Maintenance).
• Past experience in Building and Managing high-performance teams.
• Exposure to the SAP Platform
• Strong Working Experience in JIRA
• Should have prior development background along with current support role.
• Strong and proven background with experience in Troubleshooting on the Mobile platform
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong orientation towards Technical and functional aspects of the product.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to prioritize the backlog.
• Understanding of customer support processes and tools.

We're looking for someone having 4-6 years of total work experience with strong managerial and leadership skills. The manager will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of web and mobile development projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.

**Responsibilities**

• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and within budget.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Coordinate internal resources and customer team members for the flawless execution of projects.
• Lead the project scope definition and objectives ,involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation through appropriate forecasting.
• Keep your knowledge and the company’s products up to date with the latest web industry trends.
• Report problems and escalate to management as needed.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Plan and oversee the preparation and dissemination of project communications.
• Create learning opportunities for the team through training, conferences, hands-on training and mentorship in projects.
• Oversee recruitment of new team members when required.
• Maintain and develop relationships with existing customers and reach out to potential customers for new business.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Screen potential business deals by analyzing requirements, financials and market strategies.
• Track & monitor project cost as per the budget.

    **Skills**

• Must have project planning, project monitoring project management skills
• Must have Schedule Management, Project Budgeting, expense monitoring, Project reporting skills.
• Must have basic knowledge of Web, iOS and Android development technologies.
• Must have excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Must have Customer communication on Project status & reports.
• Must have strong leadership and team management qualities.
• Must have strong management and organizational skills.
• Must have good analytical and troubleshooting skills with end-users / customers.
• Must have competitive intelligence.
• Must have experience in using tools like JIRA etc.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be resourceful, innovative, self-motivated, and confident in high-stress situations.