Program Manager

Intuitive. Cloud is seeking a high-performing, energetic person to help lead various Agile Scrum teams through Project Management. The Agile Delivery Team is responsible for major enterprise platforms that are critical to the success of Intuitive. This position not only manages large/small scale projects but will also be responsible for making sure a Scrum team lives by the values and practices of Scrum.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Socialize and execute Intuitive Digital/Cloud transformation/Data platform strategy & provide technology support to our customers
• Build Strong Customer Relationship framework, Create and maintain technical project plans outlining tasks, delivery dates and allocation of resource es aligned to statements of work (SOW's)
• Plan, manage, and execute variety of cloud deployment, Networking, Infrastructure, Application Development/deployment, Virtualization, or IT systems development projects.
• Lead contract renewal efforts for existing clients, provide support to leadership in SOW development process.
• Teach, mentor, guide, and coach the Delivery Team (and organization) on Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Lean principles and practices. Coach the Delivery Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
• Manage project resources ensuring all projects meet customer obligations and budget expectations
• Provide timely and accurate status updates to all customer, partner, and Intuitive stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Own and manage technical project escalations through to resolution, and ensure expectations are clearly set with customer and within Intuitive teams
• Assist in the development and maintenance of project methodology aligned to the project skillset for efficient delivery
• Gather information at front end to determine project parameters and specifications, and to budget human, financial and other resources.
• Expected to provide technical oversight to some staff and track attainment of project milestones and Support KPIs.
• Embrace and role model servant leadership.

Technical Skills Required

• Lead complex cloud implementation, migration, and cloud support projects from kickoff to closure
• Knowledge of Data Center, Mid-Range infrastructures, Cabling, and Networking (IP Schema, Routing, and Switching products)
• Understanding of Security (IDS and Firewalls), blades enclosure, Backup, Storage & Server OS
• Remote Connectivity Tool Knowledge (DRAC, RDP, ILO)
• VMware Infrastructure (vCenter, vMotion, DRS Clusters, VM Converter, NSX-VtoT, Realize)
• Understanding of Vulnerability Management processes.
• Experience in handling small- and large-scale projects involving IT infrastructure technologies like Cloud Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Experience with Cloud (AWS), Data Center technologies, and Cloud migration projects.
• Functional understanding of cloud (AWS), data center components, and conceptual integration of servers, storage, and networking technologies.
• Knowledge in Software Defined Networks (SDN) & SD-WAN – Mandatory
• Understanding of Enterprise Network, system, and application-level security issues.
• Routing and Switching, MPLS, SD-WAN, SDN Technology, Network Security - Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Proxy
• Good understanding and skills in Network Traffic Engineering and Analysis
• Knowledge of API Led connectivity approach
• Understanding of underlying ESB architecture with experience of server admin and physical deployment On Cloud, On-Premises, and Hybrid, Runtime Fabric4 etc.
• Experience building, testing, and deploying applications.

Job Functions:

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies and enforces time boxes. Embrace and role model Agile Principles.
• Help remove organizational and team impediments to agility and progress. Assist Delivery Team and Product Owner with relentless and continuous improvement in processes and product delivery.
• Meet with customer Key stakeholders, application owners, application developers, and analysts, coding staff to determine continuously evolving business needs and functionalities desired.
• Build a project plan for the relatively large or complex project(s), including milestones, resources needed in the form of staffing hours, budget, technology stack, following established project management methodology.
• Track course of project from meetings, conferring with customer leadership to internal developers, and receiving reports. Update project plan as needed.
• Document changes to scope or functionalities with change ticket, project plan, or another format.
• Assess compliance of development process with accepted methodology and communicate to responsible managers or staff. Document exceptions or deviations as needed.
• Convene meetings and plan agenda to ensure important issues are aired and resolved.
• Report on progress of project, use of staff, $ expenditures, progress on milestones and the like to application owners.
• Provide guidance to project staff; may manage staff of analysts who are developing technical specifications or developers who are coding.
• Plan, document, manage and evaluate staff performance, or contribute to evaluation by their managers.
• Contribute to professional or technical development of less experienced staff by mentoring or training.

Qualifications:

• You must possess the minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other related field; or an equivalent of other work experience/training such as relevant military experience or technical school training

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry
• 3+ years of professional Scrum Master experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Certification
• Certified Scrum Master OR SAFe Agile Certification required
• 3+ years of experience in Agile/SAFe methodologies including tools used for work planning and tracking such as Rally, Jira, etc.
• 7+ years of Project Management experience
• Specialized Knowledge & Skills:

o          Experience with large scale cloud deployment and support projects.

o          Cloud platforms include Azure, AWS, GCP

o          Expert use of Microsoft Project and Project Server Expert use of SharePoint

o          Expert use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point.

o          Expert use of Microsoft Visio Ability to manage a program of projects (possibly up to 15).

o          Excellent presentation skills.

o          Ability to create and manage large budgets (to include resource tracking, capital expenditures and other project expenses).

o          Ability to interface with senior management in order to provide status, manage issues, and present options.

Job Description:

• Responsible for helping in data preparation and data pull
• Should be able to cut and slice data to extract interesting insights from the data
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, TPMs & PMs to execute deliverables
• Identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors
• Accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives
• Analyse, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for senior management and stakeholders
• Working on strategy development to enhance user experience
• Work with development teams to learn existing projects and different use cases.
• Hands-on experience in Excel & MS Office - Expert, SQL will be preferred

Technical Skills:

• Sales & acquisition experience, Customer Service, Customer Relationship, Relationship Management
• Be self-driven, and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data

Desired Skills:

• An ability and interest in working in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environment
• Should have worked on Business Projects for an organization, Ex: customer acquisition, and customer retention.

1-3 Years’ experience (maximum 3 years) in Business Analyst/Program Manager/Project Manager role having good knowledge of SQL, Excel, and MS Office

In today’s high-demand equals high-price world, our client focuses on being a universal factory that produces high-quality industrial goods at costs that are globally competitive. The services offered by them include sand casting, investment casting, sheet metal stamping, injection molding etc. and the industries served by them include railways, apparel, consumer electronics etc.

So far in their journey, their network includes, approx., 10K+ suppliers, 600+ customers, 2K+ projects, serving 15+ countries and 25+ industries.

Headquartered in Bangalore, they also have offices in the USA and Singapore. They have raised a total of approx. $649M in funding over 11 rounds.

As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for owning the company's vision, strategy and execution of multiple new enterprise resource planning systems and 3rd party software with the company's OS.

What you will do:

• Working with internal customers, external partners and translating business requirements into scalable solutions
• Defining the implementation roadmap and timeline to meet business objectives
• Working across engineers, business stakeholders, external stakeholders, customer ops and partnering closely with business units
• Helping us execute on long term bets to help us hyper scale our business

Desired Candidate Profile

• Strong Program Management skills
• Experience working with business teams, consultants and implementation partners
• Experience implementing an ERP or CRM Tool at an organization- preferably Dynamics or SAP
• Proven track record of leading complex projects with multiple cross-team customers to delivery and completion
• Ability to determining business needs via consultation, business analysis, and targeted observations
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable working alt Saturdays

This person MUST have:
 

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• Cloud architect with hands on development background.
• Build a collaborative relationship with different stakeholders
• Experience on React JS and Python Programming
• Exposure to Python/Django +  NodeJS + ReactJS
• Ensure and drive completions of all committed tasks and deliverables
• Run daily stand-ups and bring teams into an agile cadence of frequent iterations
• Increase team productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean.
• Able to prioritise different tasks and communicate it to the different verticals of the organisation.
• Regularly assess risks and opportunities; understand best practices, drive for process improvements, and find new ways of operating,
• with a focus on simplification and productivity.
• Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills.

Experience:

• Min 7 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location:

• Remote 

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Total experience of 10-12 years with excellent credentials in BI/DW and having retail domain experience
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience delivering medium to large engagements
• Experience in Agile project management and scrum methodology
• Must have experience of delivering engagements with Azure Data Platform (Azure, Databricks, ADF, PySpark) and/or Microstrategy/Business Objects
• Should be able to plan, manage and execute projects end to end independently
• Should have experience of drafting SOWs, project status reports and financials management

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Who you are

• You have 7 - 12 years experience.
• You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
• You’ve had 3+ years of experience planning, prioritizing and delivering the product roadmap. 
• You get your buzz from metrics, efficiencies and productivity to enable the product team to keep getting better. 
• You love interacting and managing a bunch of highly passionate and demanding stakeholders. 
• You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.

What will excite us

• Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
• You are a whiz with Jira and have numbers at the tap of your finger. 
• Experience having set up agile processes for teams and you have war stories to share. 
• You don’t really care about your title, you actively contribute to product and engineering decisions. 
• You love being a leader of incredibly smart engineers. 

What will excite you?

• Complete ownership
• Experiment, fail and learn.
• High pedigree, high caliber team.
• Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work