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Project Manager – Capital Markets

Chella Software are a global software provider of fintech solutions for central banks, exchanges, central counter parties, and financial market intermediaries. They meet the software needs of customers in India, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, and the USA.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Project Planning & Documentation

2. Risk & Dependency Management

3. Stakeholder & Client Communication

4. Review & Governance Cadence

5. Reporting & Visibility

6. Coordination & Collaboration

7. Client Relationship Management

We are looking for a detail-oriented Project Planning professional to manage project timelines, documentation, and stakeholder coordination. The role involves maintaining and updating project planning templates including milestones, deliverables, risk logs, and dependency trackers. You will be responsible for driving regular review cadences (weekly/fortnightly), stakeholder meetings, and ensuring clear communication with clients including MOMs, scope changes, and escalations. The candidate will identify bottlenecks, manage internal and external dependencies, and ensure smooth cross-functional coordination. Additionally, the role requires maintaining visibility across projects, managing escalation matrices, and supporting timeline renegotiations when required. Strong organizational skills, communication, and proficiency in Excel and PPT are essential.

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.
• Basic knowledge of databases, APIs, and enterprise systems integration.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• An analytical mindset with attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with capital markets concepts such as trade lifecycle, securities
• settlement, depositories, custodians, and regulations will be an advantage.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Project Delivery: Own project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, ensuring delivery commitments are met within agreed timelines, scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Project Planning & Governance: Develop and maintain project plans, roadmaps, milestones, resource plans, and delivery schedules. Establish effective governance mechanisms and reporting processes.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, product owners, architects, and senior management to align priorities, manage expectations, and facilitate timely decision-making.
• Multi-Workstream Coordination: Manage multiple concurrent workstreams, track interdependencies, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure alignment across project deliverables.
• Risk & Issue Management: Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies), proactively identify delivery risks, develop mitigation plans, and escalate critical issues appropriately.
• Agile Delivery Management: Drive Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog prioritisation, progress reviews, and retrospectives, while adapting delivery practices to project requirements.
• Business–Technology Alignment: Work closely with business and technical teams to translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans and ensure requirements are clearly understood and implemented.
• Status Reporting & Metrics: Prepare project dashboards, status reports, management presentations, and KPI-based updates covering delivery progress, risks, dependencies, resource utilisation, and milestones.
• Release & Deployment Coordination: Coordinate testing, UAT, release planning, deployment readiness, go-live activities, and post-implementation support in collaboration with relevant teams.
• Resource & Vendor Management: Coordinate resource allocation, capacity planning, third-party dependencies, and cross-team commitments to ensure efficient project execution.
• Change & Scope Management: Manage scope changes, delivery expectations, project documentation, and approvals through established change-control processes.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, governance, communication, and execution efficiency.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10–15 years of overall experience in the IT industry, with substantial experience in project or program management.
• Proven track record of managing complex technology projects involving multiple teams, workstreams, and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), project planning, delivery management, and release processes.
• Hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies.
• Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Project or equivalent tools.
• Experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and escalation-management skills.
• Ability to engage with senior business and technology stakeholders and communicate complex project matters clearly.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Experience working with global teams across different geographies and time zones.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, drive accountability, and deliver outcomes in a dynamic enterprise environment.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Working knowledge of enterprise application development and integration.
• Exposure to technologies such as Java, Oracle applications, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems integration.
• Understanding of application architecture, testing methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams, business analysts, QA teams, infrastructure teams, and external vendors.
• Familiarity with project dashboards, delivery metrics, and reporting tools such as Power BI or advanced Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or equivalent project management certification is an advantage.

Key Competencies

• End-to-end project ownership
• Project governance and delivery excellence
• Stakeholder and client management
• Multi-workstream planning and execution
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Agile delivery and SDLC knowledge
• Executive communication and reporting
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Problem-solving and continuous improvement

Senior Project Manager

Experience: 5–7 Years

Location: Trivandrum, Kerala

Hybrid

Contract-to-Hire (C2H)

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to coordinate IT projects, manage delivery

timelines, track risks and dependencies, and collaborate with stakeholders and distributed teams to

ensure smooth project execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and track project scope, deliverables, schedules, resources, and dependencies.

• Maintain project trackers, status reports, risks, issues, and action items.

• Monitor project progress, follow up on commitments, and escalate delivery risks.

• Coordinate offshore teams, stakeholders, and external vendors.

• Facilitate project meetings and ensure timely closure of action items.

• Track defects, technical issues, change rollouts, and post-launch activities.

• Provide regular project updates to stakeholders and leadership.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of IT project coordination or project management experience.

• Strong project planning, scheduling, and dependency tracking skills.

• Experience in risk, issue, defect, and resource management.

• Excellent stakeholder communication and reporting skills.

• Experience coordinating distributed teams and vendors.

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and lightweight project tracking.

• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.

• Excellent written and verbal English communication.

• PMP, PRINCE2, or other project management certification.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience working with international stakeholders, particularly Canadian teams.

• Exposure to Calgary-based stakeholders and cross-time-zone collaboration.

• Experience coordinating technical change rollouts and post-launch support.

• Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.

Senior Project Manager

Location: Trivandrum, Kerala

Work Mode: Hybrid

Experience: 5–7 Years

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire (C2H)

Open Positions: 1

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to coordinate IT projects, manage delivery timelines, track risks and dependencies, and collaborate with stakeholders and distributed teams to ensure smooth project execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and track project scope, deliverables, schedules, resources, and dependencies.
• Maintain project trackers, status reports, risk and issue logs, and action items.
• Monitor project progress, follow up on commitments, and escalate delivery risks.
• Coordinate offshore teams, stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure timely closure of action items.
• Track defects, technical issues, change rollouts, and post-launch activities.
• Provide regular project updates to stakeholders and leadership.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of IT project coordination or project management experience.
• Strong project planning, scheduling, and dependency tracking skills.
• Experience in risk, issue, defect, and resource management.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and reporting skills.
• Experience coordinating distributed teams and vendors.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and lightweight project tracking.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or another project management certification.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience working with international stakeholders, particularly Canadian teams.
• Exposure to Calgary-based stakeholders and cross-time-zone collaboration.
• Experience coordinating technical change rollouts and post-launch support.
• Relevant degree or equivalent practical experience.

 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.