Scrum Master

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.

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

JD - System Analyst

1. Analysis and design of technical functionality and features.
2. Creation of requirements document and definition, Epics, User stories and addition of same to Fresh Release.
3. Facilitate daily scrums, stand-ups and meetings to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing.
4. Collaborate with product owner and stakeholders and clear project obstacles and impediments that could slow down the team’s progress.
5. Meet and coordinate with internal stakeholders to establish project scope, system goals, and requirements.
6. Help the team boost their productivity and performance and helps development team create high-quality products.
7. Arrange and optimize product backlog.
8. Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow.
9. Translate highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements.
10. Manage the set-up and configuration of systems. Provide documentation of all processes and training as needed.
11. Define and coordinate the execution of testing procedures and develop test cases to serve the overall quality assurance process.
12. Draw up, supervise and document testing schedules for complete systems.
13. Perform design, implementation, and upgrades of information systems to meet the business and user needs.
14. Implement best practices for scalability, support ability, ease of maintenance and system performance.
15. Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability.
16. Oversee implementation of a new system including data migration.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for an experienced technical project manager who is expected to work with various stakeholders to provide status updates as needed, mitigate project risks, anticipate bottlenecks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints.

Position overview:

As part of the Searce Cloud and Software engineering Technical Project Management team, you will work closely with the Engineering teams, Cloud Architects and Delivery Managers, and a broad range of cross-functional teams to develop and manage the execution of best practices.  We will rely on your knowledge, expertise, and previous experience as a Technical Project Manager so that you can take an active role in working with the Cloud Engineering team through various stages of the project lifecycle, alignment of processes between Architecture, Service delivery management, definition and execution of new projects related to Cloud service delivery, cost management, compliance to name a few. 

Role Responsibilities: 

• Develop, maintain and scale effective Technical Project Management capability within Software / Cloud Engineering ensuring Searce meets and exceeds Availability, Performance, Security, Compliance and Cost goals in cloud service delivery  
• End to end management of cloud and data projects from enterprise customers across the globe
• Work with all key cross-functional teams including Sales, Cloud Engineering, Software engineering and business teams to convey the technical vision for Searce digital growth and contribute to the alignment of programs, projects, and processes within Searce
• Assist software engineering and solutions engineering  teams in project design and execution plans that meet or exceed defined customer requirements; assesses technology and execution risks and collaborates with stakeholders on decisions/strategy to achieve business goals
• Work with key stakeholders & management on process issues to address deficiencies impacting organization effectiveness
• Work with the project, program stakeholders to fully scope requirements
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives
• Report progress and associated metrics
• Drive risks to mitigation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred, with a minimum of 3+ years of directly related work experience in both small and large companies with 2+ years of technical project management
• Great track record of technical project management and experience in technical specialties, methodologies, and processes
• Proven leadership in identifying and influencing the business to employ specific technologies and best‐in‐class processes; experience in Agile methodologies required
• Have a technical understanding of the challenges and issues of complex, large‐scale cloud and data migration projects
• Experience with and proven success evaluating business requirements, identifying trends, and working to build processes/best practices around project delivery
• Working knowledge of Cloud – AWS and GCP and Node, React, Python, Django. 
• ITIL V3 Foundation and PMP Certification (Not Mandatory)

Job Description

Looking for a results-driven Agile Engineering Project Manager to join our team of innate problem solvers. As an engineering expert with an agile mindset, you plan, solve the unexpected, and always innovating new ways to exceed expectation. This role requires individual who is able to empower and motivate the teams in order to bring about successful change.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who would like to join an international global organization with a ‘start-up’ mentality. We highly value Openness, Collaboration, Learning Mindset, and partnering with our customers to drive Positive Outcome.

• MUST - SAFe Agile Certification and experience delivering in a SAFe environment
• Good knowledge in SaaS product and evolving trends
• Strong - hands on- project management experience from inception to closure phases
• Technical business analysis experience in consulting and digital transformation solution
• Hands-on technical expertise
• Appetite to learn fast in a changing environment

Job Requirements

Skills / Competencies

• 3+ years of Agile product/project management experience in delivering digital or technology-based solutions
• 5+ years of experience developing applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST Micro Services and Cloud Technologies
• 2 or more engagements as a lead (scrum master, product owner, Kanban lead, etc.) on delivery or consulting projects / product based on Scrum/ Kanban framework
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for smarten Spaces community that helps them succeed in their business goals
• Partner with Agile leadership, other delivery leads, Product Owner and other internal / external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements
• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Instil best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Software Development experience; experience in building and leading strong engineering teams
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
• A product mindset for owning the set-up of the end to end delivery process and tools
• Leading multiple projects with revenue, quality and timeline accountability
• Proven in delivering enterprise programs and comfortable working with a remote regional team
• Highly proficient in scope (requirements)/ backlog management, quality management and risks and issues management
• Experience of delivering one or more fixed time, fixed price or SLA based managed services engagements
• Should have experience of leading all Agile ceremonies
• Proficient in delivery and quality metrics, burn down charts, progress and status reporting
• Ability to challenge scope / requirements and review non-technical deliverables such as user documentation, estimates, etc
• Knowledge of 2 or more effort and cost estimation methodologies/ frameworks
• Ability to align the team on the organizational and (or) product vision and lead them to realise stated business outcomes.

Softskills

• Desire to work in fast paced environment along with project and time management skills
• Good attitude toward work and Strong problem solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently or with a group
• Should have a clear thinking process
• Should be able to manage a team
• Should have a learning agility

Qualification

• 5 to 8 years of hands-on technical experience using Java, Spring Boot, REST Micro Services
• 3 to 5 years of Agile product/project management experience
• BE / B Tech or equivalent from any recognized university
• SAFe Agilist or SAFe PO/PM Certification

• EDW/BI experience of 15+ years with at least 2-3 end to end EDW implementation experience as Solution or Technical program manager
• Must have at least ONE Azure Data Platform implementation experience as Solution or Technical Project manager (Azure, Databricks, ADF, PySpark)
• Must have technology experience in any of the ETL tools like Informatica, Datastage and etc.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Should be well versed with project estimation, project planning, execution, tracking & monitoring
• Should be well versed with delivery metrics in Waterfall and/or Agile delivery models, scrum management
• Preferred to have technology experience of any of the BI tools like MicroStrategy, Tableau, Power BI and etc.

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to oversee the successful execution of projects which involve deep integrations of various systems. This TPM should be able to identify the complete requirements of all involved stakeholders and identify the technical solution with a clear breakdown of tasks required for successful completion of the project.

Responsibilities:

• Create clear requirement documents for both new projects and changes on existing technical projects
• Identify business risks and points of failure in ongoing projects
• Plan and manage releases with all the system providers
• Troubleshoot any system failures on current projects

Requirements:

• Candidate must be from IIT.
• Candidate must have knowledge on Agile and Scrum.
• 4+ Years of total experience with atleast 2+ years in project management
• Understanding of data pipelines.
• Prior experience or knowledge on IT/Telephony Systems
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to multitask - excellent planning and time management skills
• Excellent leadership abilities.