IT Project Manager

Project Manager cum Product manager job responsibilities: -

• Define specifications and business requirements.
• Create User Stories/Acceptance criteria.
• Work with all the stakeholders to understand the pain areas and needs. Identify opportunities to address pain points and provide a seamless experience for end users.
• Closely work with the technology team and other stakeholders to communicate the requirements and develop features.
• Perform quality assurance; make sure the newly developed solutions are working as per the acceptance criteria.
• Perform RCA and identify solutions for customer complaints and issues.
• Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve, discover issues and deliver the highest value to the customer.
• Research and come up with Innovative ideas to improve the application and customer experience.
• Competition landscape tracking. Analyze leading market players and competitors to gain insights and implement innovative solutions to gain a competitive advantage over other apps.

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for managing projects to make sure the proposed plan adheres to the timeline, budget, and scope. Their duties include planning projects in detail, setting schedules for all stakeholders, and executing each step of the project for our proprietary product, with some of the World’s biggest brands across the BFSI domain. The role is cross-functional and requires the individual to own and push through projects that touch upon business, operations, technology, marketing, and client experience. 

• 5-7 years of experience in technical project management.

• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition is mandatory.

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the project/product lifecycle.

• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Prior experience in Fintech, Blockchain, and/or BFSI domain will be an added advantage.

• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods.

• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define project requirements and scope.

We are looking for a detail-oriented technical project manager to oversee all project operations from inception to execution. A Technical Project Manager is responsible for providing project planning and management for established initiatives within a company. They ensure that projects are completed to specification, within an established time frame and budget. A Technical Project Manager is the lead subject matter expert within the company regarding technology concerns. Additionally, they will hire and train additional support member in a

business's tech department.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Meet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project.

• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders and

ensuring technical feasibility.

• Develop a project plan for each client, detailing the tasks that need to be completed for the timely installation

of customized software systems.

• Analyze, plan, and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects.

• Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project

requirements, deadlines, and schedules.

• Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members' individual strengths, skill sets, and experience levels.

Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.

• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.

• Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.

• Creating a specialized document for each client, detailing all customizations made.

• Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Who You’ll Need To Be:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, computer information science, information technology,

or a related field with Master’s degree in management.

• Proven working experience in project management.

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Sound technical knowledge.

• Basic SQL Knowledge.

• Basic Database Understanding.

• The ability to multitask effectively.

• The ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

• Fintech domain knowledge is an added advantage.

We prefer candidates from Kerala.

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 document

Requirements and skills
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

·        Prepare and manage project plans (project, release, sprint) with clear achievable milestones

·        Identify risks and dependencies for the projects he manages.

·        Ensure the project is implemented on time within contractual obligations.

·        Responsible for scope management and change management.

·        Follow-up with customers to resolve any dependencies and help manage issues/bottlenecks in implementation.

·        Conduct regular project review meetings.

·        Be an escalation point for implementation team to coordinate with various partners to eliminate any bottlenecks or mitigate any risks.

·        Communicate status to senior management and customers regularly.

·        Should have the ability to manage multiple projects in parallel for various customers.

·        Able to identify impact on project plan due to new changes coming up during the project execution.

·        Interface with customers and understand functional requirements and objectives

·        Working closely with customer’s / business analysts / technical architects for ensuring that right design and architecture is agreed up on for the projects.

·        Escalate issues to senior management or customer if required appropriately

·        Able to influence and implement the best practices of Agile across project teams

·        Ensure compliance with development standards, development process and the documentation requirements.

·        Continuous learning to keep abreast with developments in technology.

·        Provide guidance on functional and technical matters to all the members in the team, if required take support from external team members.

·        Participate in presentations and demonstrations of the software to customers.

·        Identify training needs for the project team to improve productivity and quality of delivery

·        Build a strong team to manage and execute the projects

·        Work with team continuously to resolve conflicts or roadblocks they have to accomplish their tasks

·        Have a periodic 1 x 1 discussion with the team members provide support where required and nominate team/peer for their achievements

·        Understand employee grievances and take initiatives to address and resolve them

·        Participate in any proposal activities as part of pre-sales activities

·        Develops excellent customer relationship and delivers great customer satisfaction

·        Displays good subject matter and technical expertise

·        Displays good people management skills

·        Retention of the key team members with high motivation

·        Demonstrates ability to follow the existing processes and strives to improve and adapt to new processes

·        Show great productivity and excellent quality deliverables.

·        Provides excellent managerial and technical leadership to the team

With a relevant experience only in Pharma background needs to fulfill works of preparation of Product Manuals, Visual Aids, Literature, new product launch materials, imparting training to field force on technical and product knowledge, answering queries from doctors and field force, suggesting new product introductions and providing on the job training to the field force. Person should be ready for extensive traveling.

The Role

Provides project leadership to team on small to medium-sized projects in areas such as product development, research, process development and organizational development. Work collaboratively with Project Management Leader to run the projects smoothly and Keeps management and stakeholders informed of schedules, priorities, and problems. Prepares and executes translation projects. Does not typically have management responsibilities such as hiring, performance appraisals, and pay reviews; however, may assist with such decisions and activities.

• Leads project team to ensure that projects are completed on time and according to requirements.
• Continuously monitors progress and risks and promptly acts to resolve issues, escalating if needed.
• Facilitates communication upward and across project teams including project status, risks, justifications for variances.
• Serves as a focal point for other departments on project status or other project information.
• Develops, maintains and communicates Project Plans and executes projects according to the developed plans.
• Performs Internationalization and translation project intakes and coordinates findings with development teams.
• Performs technical translation project preparations, project execution and translation deliveries.
• Assigns project team and/or ensures that the project team assigned has skills and qualifications needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in business, software engineering or computer science, or equivalent.
• Overall 5 - 7 Years of experience in Project management.
• Required 2-5 years of technical experience in software development and/or software project management and/or translation project management.
• Ability to prioritize projects and activities to ensure completion of projects on time and within budget.
• Good management skills with knowledge of software translation processes and their interdependence.
• Good knowledge of translation processes like technical preparation, translation execution, QA.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, decision making and communications skills.
• Excellent skills in presentation/spreadsheet/collaboration software.  
• Familiar with Project Management tools.
• Excellent English skills, verbal and written. Fluent in at least one other language.

A Project Coordinator at Rubico IT will get to communicate with clients and use a highly-organized and structured approach towards coordinating with developers to create customized websites and related applications.

The Project Coordinator will require excellent time management and communication skills, as he/she collaborates with clients and internal teams to deliver results on deadlines. Project Coordinator responsibilities include working closely with the clients to prepare comprehensive action plans, including resources, timeframes, and budgets for projects. 

Required Skills

• 2+ years of experience in handling small to mid-sized IT Projects
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and soft skills to build trust and relationship with clients globally (Preferred working with US clients)
• Good knowledge of project planning, execution along with time, risk and cost management.
• Understanding of agile project management using Scrum
• Good understanding of other project management methodologies like Kanban and Waterfall
• Conceptual knowledge of web/mobile development technologies
• Good understanding of Open Source CMS (WordPress, Drupal or Magento)
• Basic to an average understanding of Servers, Hostings and DNS
• An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans
• Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
• Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g. Basecamp, Jira or Trello)

Job Description

Project Manager| Bangalore

Being a Project Manager is like being an artist, you have many different colored processes combining into a brilliant work of art. Tell us, can you help us build a masterpiece?

Look no further, this role is perfect for you!

A Project Manager is someone who has innate vision and caliber to give proper directions , to empower and motivate people to attain success, and to unite others towards a common purpose. Project managers are responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget while making sure the work gets done efficiently and satisfactorily. For the role, we are looking for candidates who can plan and designate project resources, prepare budgets, monitor progress, and keep stakeholders informed the entire way.

• Natural creativity:

The best project managers are creative visionaries, people who are capable of stepping back, seeing the big picture, and coming up with new ways of approaching challenges, and making positive changes to how the company is managed and marketed.

• Not a CAVEr: 

You are a person that people like to be around. You are not a CAVE (Constantly Against Virtually Everything) personality.

• Say no to HiPPO: 

At Searce, we want people who value everyone’s opinions & perspectives. We don’t want them to get overpowered by HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)

1. Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel. 
2. Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects. 
3. Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones. 
4. Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects. 
5. Determine and define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities for team members required for specific projects or initiatives. 
6. Research and evaluate hardware and software technology options and weigh the cost/benefit analysis when making large purchases on behalf of the company. 
7. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving. 
8. Update and maintain all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation. 
9. Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source. 
10. Should be a good coach in Agile practices. Should be able to coach individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science).

1.  Or else, you should be programming from 12. For us, the latter is better as it shows you have a programming mindset. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. :) 
2. 8-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in a similar industry. 
3. Professional Project Management Certification from accredited institutions is preferred.
4. Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality and managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. 
5. Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others. 
6. Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams.

Are you the one? Quick Fit test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friends ended up doing the comical  ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing 
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies? 

1. Compassion for customers: Your listening skills are impeccable, but so are your speaking skills. And when you speak, you take command of the entire room! 

1. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?’

Searce means ‘a fine sieve’ & indicates ‘to refine, to analyze, to improve’. It signifies our way of working: To improve to the finest degree of excellence, ‘solving for better’ every time. Searcians are passionate improvers & solvers who love to question the status quo.

The primary purpose of all of us, at Searce, is driving intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes using new-age technology. This purpose is driven passionately by HAPPIER people who aim to become better, every day.

Searce is a modern tech consulting firm that empowers clients to futurify their businesses, leveraging Cloud, AI & Analytics.

1. We are a category-defining niche’ cloud-native technology consulting company, specializing in modernizing (improve, automate & transform) the full-scope of infra, app, process & work
2. We partner with clients in their ‘beyond x’ journey to drive intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes
3. We are the most preferred tech partner of choice when it comes to ‘solving for better for the new-age tech startups & digital enterprises, leading disruption in their industries
4. Our Service Offerings: We offer Advanced Cloud, Data & App Modernization, Cloud Consulting, Management & Improvement (DevOps, SysOps & Cloud Managed Services), Applied AI & Analytics services 
5. As one of the top 5 niche’ full-scope global partners for Google Cloud & a preferred partner for AWS, we are the most preferred ‘engineering-led tech company of choice when it comes to solving complex business problems

We are passionate improvers, solvers & futurists. Driven by our engineering excellence mindset, we care most about delivering intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes. Searcians are motivated by continuous improvement & solving for better in everything we do.

At the core, a Searcian is self-driven to become better, every day. In the passionate pursuit of the finest degree of excellence, we drive exceptional outcomes in everything we do.

We believe that trust is the most important value. We also believe that we need to ‘earn the trust’, every time one engages with us. And earning trust for us is far more important than anything else. We aim to be the *most trusted* tech consulting partner for our clients.

We are HAPPIER at heart. Humble, Adaptable, Positive, Passionate, Innovative, Excellence focused, & Responsible. We live the https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kUnamaKXu-Qf8FpvKOHWVayEb6ehbxzUW6cJ3F3fB9U/">HAPPIER Culture Code.

Being HAPPIER.

1. Customers. Partners. Our aim is to build relationships with customers for life. And meaningfully improve the life of every customer.
2. We do what we say. We say what we do. We are uncomfortably honest and transparent. Being genuine wins trust & makes people happier.
3. Mistakes are encouraged. We make mistakes. Tons of those. Everyday. And we don’t mind apologizing to our juniors, peers, or superiors. We are no ego-doers.
4. Underpromise. Overdeliver. We work with a deep desire to go above and beyond in everything we do. Every time.

Job Responsibilities:

• Experienced in successfully delivering projects with an effort of at least 300 MM - 400 MM
• Delivering projects in Capital Market domain – either in implementation projects or in BAU support projects
• Strong grasp on project management methodologies: planning, work break down, estimation & tracking
• Knowledge on estimation techniques, risk management
• Development background on JEE based application

Desired Traits:

• Very good communication & presentation skill
• Managing different types of stakeholders
• Good leadership skill including conflict resolution and expectation management of project team

Certification:  PMP