Project Manager - Operations

We are looking for a passionate Solutions Architect with a diverse backend technology background to lead large engineering teams at Simform. You should have a good understanding of software architecture design, backend technologies, and cloud platforms and have experience leading a team of developers.

Role + Responsibilities:

• Designing, modifying, and testing technical architecture.
• Helping project teams with solutions architecture, troubleshooting, and technical implementation assistance. 
• Occasionally working as a Tech Lead if the situation demands
• Use your expertise in different tech-stack/languages, tech architecture, etc., to drive improvements in the accuracy, quality, the efficiency of projects. 
• Advocating for process improvements and helping develop solutions.
• Providing technical leadership to a team throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee project teams' work and provide assistance for any troubleshooting or technical implementation guidance. 
• Ensure standards and best practices are implemented and practiced by large cross-technical teams.
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Person Specification and Qualifications:

• Technical background with over 10 years dabbling into multiple technologies and grasping crux of them.
• Significant hands-on experience with Node/Python 
• Experience in building reliable, robust, secure, and high-performance in-production software systems with a large user base. 
• Strong understanding of Cloud (Preferably AWS) and conceptual understanding of CI/CD, and DevOps. 
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
• Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the “big picture” view
• Exposure and expertise in design patterns and software design patterns in general

Job Sector: IT, Software

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Chennai

Experience: 5 -6 Years

Salary: 10 - 12 LPA

Education: B.E/BTech

Notice Period: Immediate

Key Skills: Web apps developer, scrum master, Agile, waterfall, Azure, AWS

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Job Description:

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years of Scrum Master experience.
• Experience working with an offshore/onshore team model
• Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of organization’s development platform and languages.
• Ability to understand technical issues.

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.

 The incumbent must be B.E/B. Tech. -CS/ IT/ MCA, M.Tech from a reputed institute, with 10-12 years of relevant industry experience across a wide variety of development projects.  Knowledge of current technological trends in the S/W development industry, such as OOP’s, Multi-Tier S/W development, Component Architecture, Web Based S/W  Good experience on Core Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Oracle/SQL, planning, budgeting & QA  PMP or PMI certification is desirable. Domain knowledge of BFSI practices is an advantage.  Thorough understanding of Project Management methodologies and tools.  Advanced knowledge of system integration issues and Data Analysis  Understanding the company’s vision and goals, business operations and market.  Is adept in stakeholder management and possess the ability to coordinate and prioritize customer requests with the assistance of other managers to ensure customer delight.  Possess good people management skills and is able to manage performance and disciplinary issues, handle employee complaints and grievances and recommend the hiring, termination and promotion of staff; Should be able to train, mentor, motivate and lead a successful team. Should be well versed with attrition related issues and case management.  Should have: Strong leadership abilities, self-driven, critical thinking, analytical abilities, flexibility, adaptability to work schedules, effective verbal and written communication & presentation skills, time management, self-confidence, open to changes & challenges, eye for detail, perseverance, discreetness and diplomacy, analytical thinking, sound independent decision making and team work. Must possess the attitude to deliver solution First Time Right.  Willingness to travel on Short term/Long term within India/Outside India/Client Site

As a Technical Program Manager in this team, you will own one of our Learning Tracks end to end:

1. Backend Developer Track (Java, Springbot, OOP, LLD, HLD)
2. Full Stack Developer Track (HTML, CSS, JS, MERN Stack)
3. QA Automation track (Java, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, API Testing) Refer to the Curriculum pages at Crio for the full details of each track - Crio Programs
4. Your goal is to make that track the best learning experience in the world.
5. You will be making a difference in thousands of careers in this role. You will get to experience working at a startup with some of the brightest and most enthusiastic minds.

*In this role, you will work closely with multiple stakeholders and teams across Crio. Crio is on a sharp growth trajectory, having already grown 3x in the past few months. This provides a massive opportunity for new hires to take up challenges and scale quickly with the company.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=role&;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7005446995368697856">#Role and Responsibilities:
1. Full ownership of the Learning Track.
2. Make the best possible learning track in the market.
3. Analyze the track metrics and identify areas for improvement, address these and drive/execute the necessary improvements
4. Focus areas include learning outcomes, jobs outcomes and graduation rates.
5. Work closely with the growth team, delivery team, subject matter experts, mentors and external companies.
6. Handle B2B requirements for these courses.
7. Grow and pick up additional skills and responsibilities, including creation and ownership of additional tracks or categories
8. Drive continuous improvement in Session Quality and Mentoring quality
9. Own the processes and tools for the track
10. Learning outcome definitions
11. Interviews/Onboarding and Certification for Mentors, SMEs, Teaching Assistants and Project Engineers
12. Mocks/Revisions/P2P interviews/Interview Preparation for our learners
13. Lead a team of Product Engineers for curriculum work
14. Work with Production team to productionalize/standardize/visualize content
15. Consume feedback from learners, mentors, creators and learner interviews. Address them effectively
16. Do market research and work with SMEs to keep the track relevant to the evolving industry

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=qualifications&;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7005446995368697856">#Qualifications and Experience
1. 2+ years of coding experience and good familiarity with the tech stack for that track (e.g. HTML, CSS, JS and MERN for our Full Stack Track)
2. Looking to get into Management areas with a background of strong technical knowledge
3. Strong ownership and attention to detail with solid communication skills.
4. 4+ years of software industry experience preferred with experience leading a team Additional Details
5. This is a full-time position
6. Preferred: Candidates who are available to start immediately
7. The office location will be Bangalore

Note: *If you are currently looking for a job and want to apply for this position, then you can alos apply through this link below: https://lnkd.in/gk5CxCFA">https://lnkd.in/gk5CxCFA

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• JavaScript
• HTML5
• CSS
• HL7/FHIR certifications
• AWS/Azure/GCP

• Health Insurance
• Employee reward programs
• Employee Skill development programs

Experience: 8+ years

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Ahmedabad

Technical project manager act as the primary point of contact for our clients. You will ensure teams are successful in their delivery through proven technical and interpersonal abilities. In this role, you will bring a strategic mindset to projects and ensure top-quality results from the team.

What we offer

• Open, positive, and learning culture surrounded with tech-savvy and helpful colleagues with a growth mindset
• Best-in-industry salary standards
• 5 days work week
• Family health insurance cover
• No politics and value-driven culture 
• Occasional Work From Home even in non-COVID19 times
• Contribute to large scale distributed systems used by fortune 100 companies

Must have

• 4+ years of development experience (preferably Java)
• 2+ years of experience in Agile project management (or a scrum master) and leading development and QA teams
• Experience working with off-shore clients (US/EU) with strong knowledge of Agile & SCRUM processes
• Provide effective mentoring & coaching on technical, soft skills, and process aspects to the team
• People orientated approach to leadership that keeps the team motivated and focused on the goals
• Strong communication and management skills with the ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems
• Hands-on approach to technical problem solving and debugging

• Proactive and inherent nature of working with ownership

Good to have

• Frontend development experience with CSS, JavaScript (ES6) or modern JS frameworks like AngularJS/React/VueJS
• Performance optimization experience with SQL
• Experience with ElasticSearch/Solr, NOSQL, messaging system
• Prior experience working as a tech lead, team lead or software architect

Roles and Responsibilities

• Actively participating in client calls for requirement grooming and designing
• Participate in design discussions with fellow team members and client
• Present groomed tickets and design to team members for design discussion
• Lead Scrum meetings and provide team support during sprint planning and execution.
• Ensure project processes (e.g. code reviews, QA, deployment reviews) are followed religiously
• Identify individual and team strength and improvement areas
• Build strong rapport with team members to understand them deeply at the individual level
• Set quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs) for individuals
• Conduct performance review meetings
• Mentor junior team members, level them up and inspire to deliver extraordinary impact together

• Improve software development operations by proactively finding gaps in processes

• Build a trusting relationship with customers and teams

• Negotiate and get buy-in of sprint scope from customers & team

• Come up with pragmatic solutions to improve software quality and drive the change if approved by the customer.

• Manage KPIs & rigorous feedback cycles (through one-on-one meetings with peers) that help align with individual and organization growth.

Join us for building great teams and intuitive projects together!

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

• Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute with at least 8+ years over all professional experience. At-least 2+ years experience in managing/leading software development teams.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Able to drive sprints and OKRs.
• Exceptional team managing skills; experience in building large scale distributed systems
• Experience in Scalable Systems - transactional systems (B2C)
• Expertise in Java/J2EE and multithreading
• Deep understanding of transactional and NoSQL DBs
• Deep understanding of Messaging systems - kafka
• Good experience on cloud infrastructure - AWS preferably
• Good to have: Data pipelines, ES
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise and depth-wise while designing and implementing services
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.