Digital & IT Project Manager - Operations

• Looking for candidate who has previously worked  for Java / .NET Background .DEv background is a must.
• Overall Project Delivery Excellence
• Overall Revenue, Cost Management (Direct and Total cost)
• Active participation in Technology and Project Management forums
• Ensure projects continually understand more about Product, Technology, Domain and customer
• Developing/grooming teams and career aspirations of the team.
• Ensure all projects comply with the Organizational principles, practices & processes
• Provide necessary inputs and support to Account Managers that will enhance account mining opportunities and related closures
• Participating in Sales Campaigns, webinars and other promotional activities; recruitment, Creating Knowledge Repository
• Meets assigned expectations for profitability.
• Achieves strategic customer objectives defined by company management.
• Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards.

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)

• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

• Great educational background, preferably in the fields of computer science or engineering for technical project managers
• Proven working experience as a project administrator in the information technology sector
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• PMP / PRINCE II certification is a plus 

Job Description

Experience : 10+ Years

Location : Pune

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience with a proven record of increased responsibility
• Hands on experience in design, development and managing Big Data, Cloud, Data warehousing
• and Business Intelligence projects
• Experience of managing projects in Big Data, Cloud, Data warehousing, Business Intelligence
• Using open source or top of the line tools and technologies
• Good knowledge of Dimensional Modeling
• Experience of working with any ETL and BI Reporting tools
• Experience of managing medium to large projects, preferably on Big Data
• Proven experience in project planning, estimation, execution and implementation of medium to
• large projects
• Should be able to effectively communicate in English
• Strong management and leadership skills, with proven ability to develop and manage client
• relationships
• Proven problem-solving skills from both technical and managerial perspectives
• Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence and high standards
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Position is remote with occasional travel to other offices, client sites, conventions, training
• locations, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business\Economics, or a related field or demonstrated,
• equivalent/practical knowledge or experience

Job Responsibilities:

• Day to day project management, scrum and agile management including project planning, delivery
• and execution of Big Data and
• Primary Point of contact for customer related to all project engagements, delivery and project
• escalations
• Design right architecture and technology stack depending on business requirement on Cloud / Big
• Data and BI related technologies both some on-premise and on cloud
• Liaise with key stakeholders to define the Cloud / Big data solutions roadmap, prioritize the
• deliverables
• Responsible for end to end project delivery of Cloud / Big Data Solutions from project estimations,
• project planning, resourcing and monitoring perspective
• Drive and participate in requirements gathering workshops, estimation discussions, design
• meetings and status review meetings
• Support & assist the team in resolving issues during testing and when the system is in production
• Involved in the full customer lifecycle with a goal to make customers successful and increase
• revenue and retention
• Interface with the offshore engineering team to solve customer issues
• Develop programs that meet customer needs with respect to functionality, performance,
• scalability, reliability, schedule, principles and recognized industry standards
• Requirement analysis and documentation
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope
• Prepare for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures
• Visit and/or host clients to strengthen business relationships

• Demonstrates strong proficiency across the Auto Industry value chain and related best practices. Possess expertise in one or more Functional areas Sales & Aftersales, Logistics, Dealer Management, etc.
• Conversant with more visual, more design-thinking based, and more agile lightweight approaches such as customer personas, customer journeys, service blueprints, story maps, etc
• Experience in agile methodology performing the role of product owner and have worked on at least 1 agile tool (eg. JIRA)
• Conversant with Spoken and Written German and English
• Global exposure to a multi-cultural organization structure                                           

Educational Qualifications:

• B.E./B. Tech/M. Tech. – Mechanical, Instrumentation, Industrial, Communication, Electronics, Comp. Science etc.
• PGDM/MBA – Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing, Finance, IT, etc.
• Any relevant certification will be an added advantage – Six Sigma, APICS, SCOR, PMP, etc.

• 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.

• Project Manager will be accountable to handle the projects with delivery aspect such that the client is satisfied.
• Ability to manage a large size customer – Overall planning & execution.
• Lead planning and implementation of projects.
• Resource Allocation and Management.
• Develop and maintain project metrics and dashboards.
• Ensuring profitability of the project by accounting, costing and billing of projects.
• Project schedule and Tracking preferably JIRA or any other Scrum based tracking tool.
• Manage Risk and Issues logs with mitigation plan.
• Timely communicating with all stake holders about the status of the projects.
• Manage and trace requirements and scope creep.
• To keep client satisfied and grow the account.

• Project Management.
• Scoping the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers met and unmet needs, and recommends optimum solutions.
• Hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• Excellent client-facing, interpersonal, internal communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.