Program / Senior Program Manager
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Define and develop roadmaps to deliver strategic goals
- Regularly review the annual and quarterly roadmaps and refine the scope and priorities
- Drive progress reviews with senior management and leadership
- Identify risks and develop mitigation plans
- Report plans, progress, risks regularly at different levels
- Develop release management plans, processes and drive the adoption
- Develop release calendars and release management plans to achieve the same
- Drive sprint planning, standup meetings and ensure the work being done follows the plans
- Lead the customer engagements, set up processes, tools to manage the engagements
- Lead progress reviews, discussions around new requirements and issues with customers and internal teams to ensure customer success
- Articulate customers requirements to the cross functional teams, plan to deliver them
- Organize and manage all phases of the programs to ensure on-time completion
Knowledge and Skills
- Thorough understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience in managing complex cross-functional large scale enterprise projects.
- Good understanding of tools used for development, QE and Dev Ops
- Experience in setting up, configuring and driving usage of project management tools
- Experience in managing releases in both Cloud and On-Premise environments
- Demonstrated ability to partner with different functions across the organization
- Experience setting up templates and processes that are repeatable
- Passion for using data to drive reviews and decision making
- Ability to write crisp and robust stories to communicate complex issues, requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science from a reputed college
- PMP Certification is a plus
- ITIL Certification is a plus
Experience
- At least 2-3 years in a software development role
- At least 1-2 years in a technical lead role independently managing sub-projects / development of components
- At least 5-7 years in managing software development projects using agile methodologies
- At least 3-4 years (running in parallel to the above) managing releases to the cloud and / or on-prem environments
Total minimum experience for program manager: 12 years.
Total minimum experience for Sr. Program manager: 14 years.
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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.
Project Head for a well-funded construction tech platform backed by a renowned group.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for supervision and execution of project as per agreed design and cost parameters.
- To coordinate with local architects and contractors to ensure detailed plans are in line with the project expectations.
- To ensure availability of materials, equipment that are needed at site.
- To check with the statutory compliance of the project and to ensure that the project site is free from complications before starting the project.
- To provide technical guidance on site whenever & wherever required and resolving critical issues on site.
- To ensure that there is safe working environment at the site and check if all safety measures are taken care of.
- Should have successfully demonstrated capability to design and implement SOPs for end-to-end construction activities.
- Should be well conversant with the quality parameters and check lists for end-to-end construction processes and monitoring mechanisms to ensure compliance with quality standards.
What is the company looking for
- BE/ B. Tech in civil engineering.
- 2-4 years prior work experience in construction and real estate.
- Should be from Kolkata or willing to relocate to Kolkata.
LambdaTest is a cloud-based testing platform aimed at bringing the whole testing ecosystem to cloud. LambdaTest provides access to a powerful cloud network of 2000+ real browsers and operating system that helps testers in cross-browser and cross platform compatibility testing. The product roadmap is evolving and there are many more functionalities and features which will be added to the product. The company is angel funded by the leading investors and entrepreneurs of the industry. We are growing at a fantastic rate. This is an incredible opportunity for someone talented and ambitious to make a huge impact.
You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll out a product that delivers the company’s vision and strategy.
Requirement -
- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products
- Implement new features to solve critical problems that our customers face in their development and testing cycle.
- Define, track and improve feature success metric.
- Work closely with our engineering and design teams to simplify testing for our customers Collaborate with the Sales, Marketing and GTM team and execute successful product launches
Experience –
- 3 – 5 years of overall experience in Product Management or Engineering Passionate or hands-on about programming, software testing and DevOps Able to understand and write code.
- Have prior experience building or using developer products Strong hold on basic tech concepts. Willingness to learn advanced concepts.
- Experience in web, app development or automation testing is a plus (Optional)
Agile Project Manager
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for someone who can successfully manage the responsibility to supervise and motivate project groups working in an agile environment, to enable them to complete assigned tasks within a set time, and deliver top performance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Handle various responsibilities such as planning, scheduling, coordinating, and managing all aspects of the project.
- Should be comfortable working in an agile environment.
- Decide on deadlines for the project.
- Maintain status reports of the project and also keep a record of the previous reports.
- Present status reports of the project to the senior officials of the organization.
- Conduct training sessions for the team members and explain to them using the agile methods.
- Help in the development and implementation of agile projects.
- Assist in team development by removing roadblocks to their work, mentoring them, and making good utilization of organizational resources to improve capacity for project work.
- Promote empowerment of the team by ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the project with a meaningful contribution.
REQUIREMENTS
- B-Tech/M-Tech/MCA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
- About 2-10 years of experience in the Agile IT project management field.
- Very effective interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
- Proven ability to lead software development projects and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met.
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)
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.
Designation: Senior Associate
Office Location: Goregaon Mumbai
Position description:
3+ years’ experience as a project manager in the information technology sector.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Work with stake holders to plan, allocate and assign development tasks for multiple development teams
- Work with identified development teams to accurately estimate development effort and dependencies to inform the prioritization of the product backlog
- Take direct Project Management responsibility for the delivery of products
- Develop and maintain core project documentation, including product vision and scope, detailed business/customer requirements
- Create and work with delivery teams to prioritize product development project plans, schedules, and budgets
- Take ownership to thoroughly test and delivered to the highest quality
Required Skills:
Mandatory: Passionate about sports, Problem solving, Team player, Target & Result oriented.
Functional: Project management in the information technology sector, manage projects using modern web and app technologies, JIRA, Agile, experience in building digital fan experiences, understanding of analytics and dashboards.
- Ensure all tech projects are delivered on time and are profitable
- Work with Account Managers to understand project requirements
- Analyse, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to the projects
- Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical team while ensuring each person on the team is actively working toward established milestones
- Hold daily technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
- Hold regular retrospectives to identify the positives and negatives of a project, and establish what the tech team can take forward from this
- Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for team members required for specific projects or initiatives
- Establish and implement training processes and strategies for the technical team with support from the L&D team and CTO
- Be part of the recruitment and training of exceptional employees to fulfil posted positions within the tech team
- Update and maintain all production technologies ensuring proper maintenance and installation
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in information technology, software development management, software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Strong credentials in software development and troubleshooting
- Demonstrated understanding of the software development lifecycle and Project Management processes, strategies and methods
- Experience in mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent in the technology department
- Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
- Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting teamwork
- Experience in applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills for project management
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles
- Professional Project Management Certification is an added advantage
As a PM Tech, you will work closely with:
- CTO
- Development team
- Account Managers
Project Manager / Quality Analyst
at Cerebry
- Should be responsible for Scrum Master role and taking care of proper Daily Stand Up Meeting with the team and ensure team efficiency & unblock them by resolving their concerns.
- Taking care of complete Product backlog of the Product which is going to be developed or under development.
- Should be able to define proper Sprint Cycle & timeline for particular sub-part of the Product. Should be able to plan the Sprint items in such a manner that there is some needful & working sub-part of the Product is coming out at the end of every Sprint Cycle.
- Should be able to update Product Owner timely if there is any issue/challenge in the development team.
- Should be able to timely raise alarm / red flag to Senior Management/Product Owner if there is any major challenge in the Product.
- Should be able to manage team leave plans and then accordingly planning the Sprint Cycle.
- Take care of end-to-end timely and quality delivery of the complete product.
- Additionally , should be responsible for validating the product and ensure the quality of the product by identifying the bugs in the product. Should be able to timely update the development team for the bugs and push the dev team to timely resolve the bugs/issues.
· Acting as primary interface to client business units during all phases of
the project
· Perform project kick-off meetings with customers and delivery
resources
· Identify scope, create project plan, manage, monitor and control
multiple externally facing customer implementations of our software.
Manage the project budget, team resources, communications, and
project plans.
· Review and update various project documentation, including different
tools and templates
· Ensure that customers successfully migrate to the Companies solution
in the most optimal way, with an effective transition to support upon
project close.
· Monitor and report on project progress, problems and recommended
solutions to the customer
· Identify and resolve risks and issues in a timely manner. Escalate
concerns to the project team and senior management when appropriate.
· Report on deployments, schedules, budgets and revenue using
internal methods.
· Foster continued growth of the team’s project management
capabilities, improving knowledge and experience within the PMO.
· Successfully manages several competing priorities.
· Contribute to the overall goals and objectives of the Project
Management Ofce
· Creating project plan, identifying scope, goals, deliverables, timelines
and required resources
· Managing the day-to-day implementation of operational project
aspects, dening project tasks and resource allocation
· Supporting customers in migration from current to future state in the
most optimal way
· Updating and tracking project timelines and deliverables
· Providing direction and support to the implementation team and
reviewing deliverables prepared by the team
· Managing project issues and dependencies
· Provide coaching, mentoring and support to less experienced project
managers
· Establish processes and mitigating strategies for managing issues and
risks across project and associated projects, including escalation
processes.
Required Experience and Skills:
PMP or Prince II designation an asset
· Companies experience an asset
· Previous experience with real time retail and delivery systems is a plus
· Previous knowledge of IoT based solutions is a plus
· Experience with relational databases and data model concepts (data
mining, data analysis)
· Experience working in a production environment
· Solid understanding of systems design
· Great attitude and work ethic
· Strong leadership and relationship building capabilities, with ability to
negotiate with and inuence others to drive successful project outcomes
· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
· Attention to detail and a passion to achieve quality outcomes
· Self starter with the ability to take on new challenges
· Quick learner with strong analytical and problem solving skills
· Ability to self manage, and monitor and track key performance
indicators
Other Qualications
Solid understanding of key program and project management and communications tools, such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint
What skills, experience and qualications do I need?
+ Masters or Bachelors degree.
+ 12+ years' experience in one or more of the following areas: Project
management and delivery of complex projects
+ 5+ years of people management experience.