Project Manager - Operations

Responsibilities for Project Manager

• Complete responsibility of assigned project like coordination with client, time management, team management, budgeting and brainstorming on tricky code.

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

 • Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones

 • Hold regular team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects

 • Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for staff members required for specific projects or initiatives

• Recruit and train exceptional employees to fulfill posted positions within the technical department.

Qualifications for Project Manager

·      Bachelor's degree is Must

·      1-3 of project management and related experience

·      Proven ability to solve problems creatively

·      Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices

·      Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle

·      Excellent analytical skills

·      Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful

·      Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC

·      Experience in Agile methodology and sprint planning

At our core, we are a group of makers - designers, developers, product & project managers. We care about our work and think of it as a craft. We're always learning so we can build better and faster.

As a project manager, you will build product roadmaps, run agile ceremonies, and manage stakeholder expectations.

Core Responsibilities

• Care: Take charge of the project. Test each change. Be an advocate for the customer's customer.
• Be Agile: Run standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Educate: Educate stakeholders about software development processes.
• Communicate: Both with the team and the customers. Give clear requirements and set the right expectations.

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.

​We are looking for a person who can adapt to the latest AI technologies such as ChatGPT and leverage them to enhance their productivity and efficiency.

Benefits

• Mentorship: Work next to some of the best engineers and designers.
• Freedom: An environment where you get to practice your craft. No micromanagement.
• Comprehensive healthcare: Healthcare for you and your family.
• Growth: A tailor-made program to help you achieve your career goals.
• A voice that is heard: We don't claim to know the best way of doing things. We like to listen to ideas from our team.

Job description

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Understanding the product offerings and managing new deliverables

2. Working on product planning and its complete roadmap, including UI/UX

3. Collaborating with FynTune's stakeholders, including both the management and their clients who utilize FynTune's technology solutions, such as insurance companies, aggregators, and financial enterprises, to plan projects effectively

4. Working along with the QA team on product logic and product validations

5. Working along with the technology team on product development

6. Working with the project team & supporting them on product deliveries

7. Coordinating with stakeholders (internal & external) for the smooth delivery of the overall project

8. Understanding the requirements of clients on the project front and getting the deliveries from FynTune's technology and product team

Who can apply

Only those candidates can apply who:

1. are available for fulltime (in-office)

2. who are graduates and freshers.

3. Should have relevant skills and interests.

Role: Product Manager

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Department: Product Management

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Product Management - Technology

Education

UG: Any Graduate

Requirements:

6+ year of working experience .

Strong understanding of web fundamentals

Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.

Manage daily/weekly scrums.

Lead technical strategy and implementation for various team initiatives with an alignment with project / client expectations

Proven record of building project from scratch.

An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and project management skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs.

Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent design and architecture knowledge.

Data-driven decision making.

·        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

JD: Technical Project Manager (MERN stack)

Exp: 9-20 Yrs

Location: Anywhere India (Remote)

- 10 + Yrs of total experience along with knowledge and experience in MERN (Mongo db, Express js, React js and Node js) stack.

- Experience to lead and manage technical teams.

- Experience in Agile project management and Scrum

- Expertise in Engineering Delivery

- Experience in working on deployments and CI/CD.

- Full stack development experience 

- Hands on experience in MERN stack

A Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager is required to join the team that will be delivering a large-scale business initiative.

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of a large-scale technical transformation project focusing on upgrading the network fabric of our key data centres. Delivery teams are located in various locations around the globe. 

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Workstream Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall workstream plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QA and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QA to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making – sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance – Manage any workstream technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting – Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

• Experience in running scaled agile teams
• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Experience of setting up and working on a Greenfield Programme of work
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Key Stakeholders

• Workstream Lead
• PMO
• Scrum Masters/Scrum of Scrums
• Other Delivery Managers for dependencies
• Development leads
• QA Lead
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Lead BA
• Lead Solutions architects
• Service (Release to BAU)

• Contributing to design and planning of Physical infrastructure
• Performing installation of applications.
• Providing Application Operations
• Performing day-to-day Application administrations tasks
• Providing support for the transition of applications in operations
• Performing monitoring of the IT infrastructure services /application
• Contributing to onboarding of Supported Applications onto Monitoring Platform · Performing batch management & scheduling
• Operations of Application Platforms and applications
• Provision of a Provider System Responsible as a Point of contact for the Application Owner for all Operational topics.
• Operations Management
• Continuity Critical Applications across Production Lines
• Detailed project planning by participating in System Design of Applications
• Consulting for Technical Architecture on application design for the operating environment and plant ecosystem
• Design security concepts, monitoring checks, interfacing requirements, etc.
• Proposals in Definition & Provision of Tools, Performance Management, Application Robustness, Alerting, and Configuration · Perform application tests with business partners or application owners
• Providing Application Operations, Change Management, Problem Management
• Providing support for the transition of applications in operations