Position Title: Enterprise Architect Expert |
Grade/Level: Principal Consultant |
LoS: Advisory |
Sub LoS/SBU: Government & Public Sector |
Location: New Delhi/Jaipur |
Position Type: Full time |
Subject Matter Expertise: Enterprise/Solution Architect |
Job Summary
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 208,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in Assurance, Advisory and Tax services.
Within Advisory, PwC has a large team that enables government organisations to transform and provide better service to citizens and optimize operations. The open position is for a candidate who desires to work with government clients and bring about a change in society. A successful candidate will be expected to work pro-actively and effectively on multiple client engagements over the period of time and take ownership of the entire project delivery he/she entrusted with.
Proposed role requires a candidate with relevant experience in Enterprise/Solution Architecture. He/She would have lead the process improvement and solution conceptualization and handled large integrations involving the latest technologies in the field of solution architecture. The architect should have a successful track record in managing and implementing e-government projects with particular focus on business components, and has contributed to the IT Strategy, maintenance of the information strategy and use architecture to support business and process change.
The candidate should strong interpersonal skills, who not only enjoys the challenge of working with other team members but externally with a diverse, senior-Government officials across varied Ministries and PSUs. Recent experience and understanding of the Indian business ecosystem and government initiatives is a must.
The candidate will be required to showcase excellent communication skills and will have demonstrated consistently the skill and capability in delivering impactful and insightful projects in the past. He/she will also be required to participate in client meetings and, during the course of a project, will be responsive to client enquiries, eventually leading the delivery engagement.
They will also be expected to contribute to Practice or Firm development. This may be adjudged in various ways such as serving as a mentor to other team members, by leading training/development initiatives, contributing to thought leadership papers, assisting other network firms etc.
Positions are with PwC’s Government and Public Service (G&PS) practice, which works
with Central & State Governments, PSUs, donor agencies etc. The position can be based in Delhi or Kolkata. However the ideal candidate should not have any constraints to travel for work related opportunities, whether domestic or internationally.
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Educational Qualifications
Certifications Having one or more of the following certifications will be an added advantage:
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About PwC
Price Waterhouse and Cooper & Lybrand merged their businesses in 1998, resulting in the formation of the accounting firm known as Price Waterhouse Cooper. Not only is PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) the second largest company in the professional services industry, but we are also one of the Big Four accounting firms. In 2016, we were the sixth largest industry in the United States that was privately owned. The company has a workforce of over 223,000 people and provides services to customers in 756 locations throughout 157 countries.
PwC is a network of problem solvers that uses human creativity, knowledge, technology, and solutions to assist organizations in developing a culture of trust and achieving outcomes over the long term. Through the provision of quality assurance, tax, and advising services, we support individuals and businesses in the generation of the value that they want.
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- 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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Budget, commercial and Customer experience
Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and communication skills
Excellent organisation, documentation and communication skills
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Stakeholder management at CX levels
Role: Project Manager
Experience: 8-10 Years
Location: Mumbai
Company Profile:
Exponentia.ai is an AI tech organization with a presence across India, Singapore, the Middle East, and the UK. We are an innovative and disruptive organization, working on cutting-edge technology to help our clients transform into the enterprises of the future. We provide artificial intelligence-based products/platforms capable of automated cognitive decision-making to improve productivity, quality, and economics of the underlying business processes. Currently, we are rapidly expanding across machine learning, Data Engineering and Analytics functions. Exponentia.ai has developed long-term relationships with world-class clients such as PayPal, PayU, SBI Group, HDFC Life, Kotak Securities, Wockhardt and Adani Group amongst others.
One of the top partners of Data bricks, Azure, Cloudera (leading analytics player) and Qlik (leader in BI technologies), Exponentia.ai has recently been awarded the ‘Innovation Partner Award’ by Qlik and "Excellence in Business Process Automation Award" (IMEA) by Automation Anywhere.
Get to know more about us at http://www.exponentia.ai and https://in.linkedin.com/company/exponentiaai
Role Overview:
· Project manager shall be responsible to oversee and take responsibility for the successful delivery of a range of projects in Business Intelligence, Data warehousing, and Analytics/AI-ML.
· Project manager is expected to manage the project and lead the teams of BI engineers, data engineers, data scientists and application developers.
Job Responsibilities:
· Efforts estimation, creating a project plan, planning milestones, activities and tracking the progress.
· Identify risks and issues. Come up with a mitigation plan.
· Status reporting to both internal and external stakeholders.
· Communicate with all stakeholders.
· Manage end-to-end project lifecycle - requirements gathering, design, development, testing and go-live.
· Manage end-to-end BI or data warehouse projects.
· Must have experience in running Agile-based project development.
Technical skills
· Experience in Business Intelligence Data warehousing or Analytics projects.
· Understand data lake and data warehouse solutions including ETL pipelines.
· Good to have - Knowledge of Azure blob storage, azure data factory and Synapse analytics.
· Good to have - Knowledge of Qlik Sense or Power BI
· Good to have - Certified in PMP/Prince 2 / Agile Project management.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Education:
MBA, B.E. or B. Tech. or MCA degree
The Incumbent will: Be the key person accountable for Project Delivery- managing end to end delivery of high quality projects, meeting all required functionality, within allocated schedule and budget. Managing the team assigned to deliver projects and achieve assigned project goals. Be responsible to ensure continued customer delight.
Own the entire delivery of assigned projects. Responsible for managing multiple projects involving 15-20-member team consisting of middle layer (PL/GL/TL) and the teams under them. Responsible for the end to end delivery; ensuring that Project Delivery Metrics are controlled throughout the project lifecycle. Tracking project requirements and implementation throughout different phases. Participate in business meetings with Function/Delivery Heads; review contracts, carry out risk analysis and mitigation exercises and update the Management on the same. Project managers should have strong business management, budgeting and analytical skills. Review and ensure the preparation of the following: ▪ System Architecture ▪ External Specifications & Internal Specifications ▪ Software Development Plan, Configuration Management Plan and Project plan ▪ Technical Documentation ▪ Weekly status updates to all stakeholders Ensure process and system compliances in the projects. Exhibit excellent escalation management skills, internal or external. Manage FPP (Fixed Price Project) & T&M (Time & Material) projects on diverse functional domains Coordinate, communicate with the client on project related matters. Coach/ mentor the members in the project and provide necessary support to them. Performance appraisal/ counselling of the group members. Evaluate training needs (technical, managerial) and get the required training programs implemented. Ensure project compliance with Company's Quality Systems and Procedures.
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1. ACSM or CSP(SM) or PSM(III) certified (Preferred CSP(SM))
2. SAFe(SA) or SAFe(SM)
Qualifications - Added Advantage
3. PMI- ACP
4. PMP
5. ICP-ACC
Experience-
6+ solid experience on Scrum Mastery facilitation/leading, medium/Complex projects involved multiple technologies (Web, Mobile, Backend, API etc)
Expected Skills
- Sound knowledge in Agile Methodology ( Lean,Agile,Scrum,SAFe) Proven servant leadership
- Conflict resolution capability
- Building high performance Teams
- Identify impediments and eliminate in a timely fashion.
- Experienced working with Mobile App/Web/ Backend development teams.
- Deliver projects in challenging circumstances
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Desired Candidate Profile:
- Good Customer success handling experience.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Excellent leadership & team managing skills, Customers and deliveries
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Arrange and participate in discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
- Delivering products in an iterative, agile software lifecycle Desired Competencies / Experience.
- Develop detailed project plan to track progress, Knowledge of managing projects with use of risk management, quality management & scope change management.
- Responsible for managing timing, resources, budget and quality commitments of programs. Manage software budget and resource plan of scrum teams in alignment with project needs.
- Has strong technical knowledge and expertise in resolving technical issues. Ensure project dashboards are up to date for stakeholders review Innovate and identify measures for quick and flawless project delivery. Assess technical skill requirements and ensure that resources can meet those requirements by creating learning opportunities.
- Lead technical project teams as required, including engagement with third parties, product managers, and internal partners, through all stages of the SDLC.
Education/Qualification:
BS/MS in computer science or prior experience as a software engineer
- Certified Scrum Master
- PMP or equivalent - nice to have to apply.
What will you be doing?
A Project Manager is responsible for providing project management support from offshore to our clients in US healthcare IT services and related technologies. A Project Manager works in tandem with Project Managers in different Client time zones performing project governance across multiple engagements. The role provides support in critical areas of overall project management including management of cost, resourcing, and help identify, pursue, and close project risks. The role also requires to be able to maintain relationships with project teams, demonstrate value through service delivery, and improve service levels for our customers, all within the constraints of schedule, budget, and resources.
Responsibilities
The Project Manager has the responsibility of providing support for overall delivery and execution of the project. The role requires support across multiple projects within the organization with the following responsibilities:
- Financial Management - Planned hours, Actuals, ETC, EAC, overall cost, revenue, budget, and management of financial variance, & create SOW’s
- Risk Management - Managing and ensuring that all potentials risks/issues are properly communicated to all stakeholders with correct owners for the same identified and/or putting in a resolution plan in the form of risk register.
- Schedule Management - Ensure all project milestones, deliverables, Go-lives, deployment dates etc. are met and in case of any variance, keeping all the stakeholders informed with relevant reasons.
- Status Update - Status reports to clients using project management tools like Jira, SF, Microsoft office suite with all the details based on status from resources. Reports to KPi management showing the health of each projects.
- Process: Setup the stand operating processes that ensure the project teams are process oriented, and provide documentation to the clients.
- Others - Resourcing, maintaining overall project status, resolving project management related issues that may arise, performance approval, aligning projects to company objectives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in computer science
- Excellent writing and speaking skills.
- Quick learner and interest to learn new skills.
- US healthcare IT experience
- PMP/Scrum master Certification.
Skill Set
Technology
- Java or any other object-oriented programming language.
- Restful webservices.
- SQL/NOSQL databases.
- Jira
- Salesforce
- Confluence/SharePoint
- Slack or any other project communication tools.
- Timesheets (like Clarizen)
- Agile/Kanban development
Good to have:
- JavaScript
- HTML5
- CSS
- HL7/FHIR certifications
- AWS/Azure/GCP
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Employee reward programs
- Employee Skill development programs
- Ensure all tech projects are delivered on time and are profitable
- Work with Account Managers to understand project requirements
- Analyse, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to the projects
- Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical team while ensuring each person on the team is actively working toward established milestones
- Hold daily technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
- Hold regular retrospectives to identify the positives and negatives of a project, and establish what the tech team can take forward from this
- Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for team members required for specific projects or initiatives
- Establish and implement training processes and strategies for the technical team with support from the L&D team and CTO
- Be part of the recruitment and training of exceptional employees to fulfil posted positions within the tech team
- Update and maintain all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in information technology, software development management, software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Strong credentials in software development and troubleshooting
- Demonstrated understanding of the software development lifecycle and Project Management processes, strategies and methods
- Experience in mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
- Excellent time management and organizational 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 teamwork
- Experience in applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills for project management
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- Professional Project Management Certification is an added advantage
As a PM Tech, you will work closely with:
- CTO
- Development team
- Account Managers
Based out of Norway, and presence in many countries, their solutions are being implemented in various industries ensuring efficient and smarter automation. Within 4 years of its existence, the company has seen 3 times revenue growth and over 100 employees building global and economical solutions and a diverse organisation well prepared for the future.
- Aligning product roadmap with delivery goals to ensure prioritizations of resources and tasks during sprints
- Coordinating with product managers, business analyst and development teams for execution of projects
- Helping in the definition of sprint goals and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensuring relevant stake holders are up to date with necessary information
- Resourcing availability and allocation
- Developing a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
- Managing changes to the project scope, project schedule using appropriate verification techniques
- Measuring project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
- Performing risk management to minimize project risks
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation
- Tracking project performance, specifically to analyse the successful completion of short and long-term
What you need to have:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT
- 3+ years as Technical Project Manager
- Experience with Agile development (Scrum/ Kanban) is must
- Experience with task tracking systems like Jira, VSTS is must
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Experience with project management tools like MS Project is a plus
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
- Good knowledge of software life cycle and processes and various methodologies
- Resource planning, performance management and team motivational skills are must.