Project Manager

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

Responsibilities:

Craft polished written communications and deliver oral communications of findings and recommendations in an effective and efficient manner

Collaborate positively with project stakeholders to secure support and implement recommendations in a fast-paced environment

• Drive discussions with product owner and/or business partners to understand the process, the problem, and then brainstorm solution scenarios
• Actively engage product owner or business SME to translate solution needs into actionable user stories
• Facilitate and support product backlog management
• Partner with product owners/SMEs to define & refine acceptance criteria
• Partner with developers on reviewing user stories for understanding and scoring
• Negotiate with product owners/business experts on alternative solutions
• Write test cases for user stories
• Perform/coordinate user acceptance testing to ensure functionality meets business needs before each product release
• Secure approval & change management activities with senior product manager or product owner before release

Skills

Excellent verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

Experience gathering and consolidating requirements from cross-functional groups

Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills

Experience

Overall exp required 5+ Years (1-2 years of experience in business analysis or project management)

We are hiring a Technical Business Analyst who wants to advance their knowledge and experience in Privacy & Security. The ideal candidate will have interest and experience in data privacy and application & data security. We will be providing training resources to ramp up on privacy & security, but candidates with technical background, and interest in privacy & security are preferred.

As the successful candidate, you will be required to: 

• Gathering and documenting needs and use of data from internal and external stakeholders, including privacy requirements based on laws & regulations, document security best practices and requirements.
• Research, analyze, and document business requirements. Prepare high quality analysis such as summarizing security best practices, privacy laws, business requirements specifications, functional and technical specifications, traceability matrices, etc.
• Create user stories based on functional requirements gathered from business teams.
• Work with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues
• Creating data and process workflows.
• Good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Engage and work closely with development team and stakeholders, including attending scrum meetings.

To be eligible for this role, you should possess the following: 

• Bachelor’s or Engineering Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst.
• 2+ years of experience using JIRA and Confluence.
• Should have good communication and presentation skills with the ability to adapt to a range of audiences
• Must be self-driven, self-motivated with good soft skills.
• Must have good software engineering skills, thorough knowledge of SDLC, STLC.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Quick learner and attention to detail
• Portray strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work within a collaborative team environment; Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects
• Open for new challenges and learning and flexible to work and support the team as per the business need
• Understand and analyze Business, Functional, and technical requirements of the project
• Knowledge in using any of the bug tracking tool like Bugzilla/Jira

Summary
• The project lead is a core member of the agile teams implementing EdTech solutions. These EdTech solutions, ranging across Learning Platforms, Assessment systems, Simulation Training, and Interactive content, are to be fit-for-purpose, efficient, and of high quality.
• The responsibility of the project lead is to guide the overall implementation of the solutions created by the Zeus Learning team and address day-to-day issues related to the client’s business processes

The essence of Role – key accountabilities
• Take charge of the project and help it succeed
• Work with cross-functional teams to create a shared vision
• Coordinate all activities to run the project
• Build product roadmaps, run agile ceremonies and manage stakeholder expectations
• Educate teams about software development processes.
• Be the interaction point between Zeus Learning teams and the client and set correct expectations
• Ensure the product shapes up as envisioned

Requirements
• Should have a history of managing large projects.
• Good understanding of agile software development processes.
• Should be able to run teams and keep people motivated throughout the project.
• Have great negotiation skills

As a Salesforce Product Owner, you will lead the product intake, backlog prioritization, strategy, and roadmap of the Salesforce platform. Furthermore, you will lead the team with discovery to create a development-ready story to be handed off to the development team. The company is looking for a candidate with Salesforce and Agile framework experience.

• The role requires strong leadership across multiple teams and departments, the ability to communicate with influence, and a technical aptitude
• The ideal candidate will have proven Salesforce product knowledge as well as the ability and experience to demonstrate how they have improved efficiencies in product management using their product expertise.

The Product Owner will work with business groups:

• To understand demand
• Collaborate with the business to develop detailed requirements
• High-level design and technical architecture
• They will also lead many of the Agile ceremonies and will ensure the team meets its goals on time and within budget.
• Managing integration across the platform is also a key role

This role is a strategic, senior-level individual contributor who will own a portfolio of products/initiatives as well; including:

• Owning reporting and analytics on product work,
• Establishing and maintaining metrics to measure the performance of work,
• Creating and sustaining relationships with other organizations (IT, industry teams, etc.),
• Facilitating working sessions/steering committees to drive performance and
• Communicating directly with Senior Leaders from different areas of the organization.

The position also serves:

• To define scope and benefits
• Create user stories
• Develop a roadmap
• Track budget performance
• Validate IT related design and development work
• Partner with the business to ensure end-user acceptance testing
• Monitor an initiative post-launch to ensure benefit realization.

Additional job duties/responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Identify and ability to negotiate with Vendors for IT Sub-contracting
• Working closely with key stakeholders and internal partners throughout the organization to gather requirements
• Creating, maintaining, and prioritizing the product backlog according to business value for the life of the project
• Developing & conveying the vision of what is to be built
• Acting as the key product feature decision-maker., maximizing the value of the product
• Communication of product backlog priorities
• Handoff of development-ready stories to the development team
• Assisting with the elaboration of epics, themes, and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
• Decisions on release dates and content
• Participating in daily scrum, as needed
• Participating in sprint planning meetings, reveals, and retrospectives – inspecting the product progress at the end of every sprint to accept or reject the work that has been done by the development team
• Acting as the voice of the team, communicating status to stakeholders and internal partners

Basic Qualifications

• Four year Bachelor’s degree preferably in marketing, computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience as a product owner
• 5+ years experience leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects
• 3+ years experience with the Agile methodology

Top candidates will also have:

• Salesforce development experience
• Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud experience
• Demonstrated ability to communicate to ensure a team’s success
• Strong accountability planning/organization and teamwork
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive, emotional or potentially controversial situations.
• Experience managing projects using Agile software tools such as JIRA, Team Services, Rally
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Background in Information Technology

• Developing new product features
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• Problem Solving 
• Communication
• Analytical
• Project Management

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• Coordinating with https://www.productmanagerhq.com/2015/04/how-to-work-with-stakeholders-as-a-pm/">stakeholders to achieve the product vision

Detailed Job Description / Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The role requires deep expertise in delivering modern web application solutions on the Open Source Tech platform, as well as ability to communicate how these solutions drive business value. Detailed responsibilities include -

• Lead Engineering team and ensure customer requirements and needs across the current and future targeted segments are met.
• Work with Product Owner / US counter parts / SME’s to understand the requirements and prioritize development efforts.
• Work in capacity of Scrum Master role and manage development through Agile - Scrum framework. Activities include Sprint planning, Preside Scrum meetings, Sprint Retrospective, Publish reports, etc.
• Responsible for creating User stories, Epics in Project management tool based on the requirements received from various stakeholders including clients.
• Manage all aspects of engineering operations including Product Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Architect the applications / providing recommendations to choose the right technologies for the products to be built.
• Manage Operational efforts for the contracted clients and ensure the SLA’s with required quality are met.
• Manage Product support team and ensure the SLA’s for response and resolutions are provided to client that meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.
• Build / Guide Developers in building Full-Stack Web applications at Internet scale.
• Code Review and provide feedback to ensure timely delivery with required quality.
• Programming in MEAN stack or similar open source technologies and framework
• Data Modelling using NoSQL and Relational Database management Systems
• UI / UX Design and Implementation
• Web Development with BootStrap, Angular Material, and other libraries
• Develop Data / File parsing programs using Python or other programming languages
• Create methods and algorithms for data analysis and optimization
• Develop curriculum for talent development, Knowledge Sharing, etc.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all stakeholders involved.
• Willing, capable and excited to roll up the sleeves to code when needed.
• Having exceptional expertise in one of the following areas –
  • Backend / Front end Web Application Framework
  • Serverless Architecture
  • Micro Services Platforms
  • AWS Services