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.
Subodh Popalwar
Software Engineer, Memorres
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Our client is a Communities Foundation that works in the area of skilling and livelihoods for underserved youth. This is a pioneering program with a strong PPP model, an agency-led approach to livelihoods and a vision of socio-economic transformation.
Roles and Responsibilities
● Independently lead centers for enabling at least 20% of youth from the nearby
communities to be formal jobs/self-employed
● Develop and maintain a conducive environment at the center that enables learning and a feeling of safe space for youth
● Implement the foundation program such that the youth builds ‘agency’ and over time does not need to depend on the Lighthouse Source
● Manage a team of 3-5 and handhold them for timely deliverables and high-quality
outcomes for all of the stages of the program - Community Outreach to Alumni
● Interfacing with ward–level networks
● Government (Corporators, Ward Officers, PMC personnel) – for mobilization and other
support
● NGOs – for mobilization and other support
● Corporates and Establishments – for volunteering, placements and donor/potential
donor visits
● Citizens – for volunteering
● Manage brand-building activities e.g., Events, which are specific to the center and help with advocacy with the local economy for youth placements.
Requirements
● MSW or Post Graduation in any field, with 8+ years of experience preferably in both social
and corporate sectors.
● Self-driven, excellent time management and multitasking skills
● Strong people management, project management, and data analytics skill
● Strong orientation towards relationship-building and problem-solving
● Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and the local language
● Proven ability to plan and manage the operational process for maximum efficiency and
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Scrum Master
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
Contact at triple eight two zero nine four two double seven
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.
- 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.
Title : Agile Program Manager
Locations: Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi (Remote).
Job Type: Fulltime
The Agile Program Manager should have experience with all facets of software development, operational support and project management using agile processes. Must have experience in providing advanced project management and support for ongoing programs and for projects across numerous functional and technical units with the organization. For each program/project, the Agile Program Manager is responsible for ensuring that the program is on track for successful releases, and coordinate with vendors/partners, and external stakeholders, as necessary.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the Scrum of Scrums once or twice a week with Scrum Masters, Backlog Owners, and Leads.
- Facilitate Big Room Planning with Lean | Agile Teams, Leads, Leadership, and Stakeholders.
- Review Agile metrics every week with Program Portfolio stakeholders.
- Serve as an escalation path for Scrum Masters and the Lean | Agile Teams.
- Help champion the Agile transformation in the program.
- Help drive the Communities of Practice in the program and encourage others to participate.
- Work with Product Management to update the Agile Road Map, as necessary.
- Serve as an administrator for the Agile ALM (Application Lifecyle Management) tool.
- Mentor Scrum Masters.
- Track program dependencies to resolution.
- Track program risks to resolution.
- Create weekly summary Agile program reports for Leadership.
- Support Leadership to track Agile budgets, Team allocations, releases.
- Conduct Program Portfolio Agile Maturity Assessments.
- Participate in Progressive Elaboration sessions to maintain institutional knowledge.
- Assist in Agile contract management with external vendors and contractors.
Suggested Certifications:
- Agile Program Manager - Agile Axiom Framework
- Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance).
- Certified Scrum Professional (Scrum Alliance).
- Agile Project Management (IC Agile).
- Agile Program Portfolio Management (IC Agile).
- Agile Certified Practitioner (Project Management Institute).
Suggested Experience:
- 6+ Years Professional Experience.
- At Least 4 Years in Project Management.
- At Least 4 Years Working in an Agile Environment.
- College Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience.
The Agile Program Manager has a critical role. They are often the glue to ensure everyone is moving forward towards value delivery via conflict resolution, administrating ALM tools, facilitating program level meetings, removing escalated impediments, tracking program dependencies and risks to resolutions, etc. The ideal person should have a strong project management background and hands-on Agile experience at the Program Portfolio level.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the client from the start of each project to ensure you understand the project scope and vision
- Oversee the beginning of each turn-key project, including details like permit submission and design evaluations
- Create the schedule for each project and match talent to the job
- Process change orders
- Collaborate with the architect and construction crew to ensure feasibility of each project
- Conduct meetings on-site with architect, client and construction crew.
- Prepare and submit project estimates to clients
Job Description
Delivery Manager -
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Manage a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.
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Oversee daily activities of the delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.
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Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.
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Ensure that team maintains a high level of competence and operational excellence.
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Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.
Roles & Responsibilities
Delivery Management and Escalations
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Owns the end to end delivery of the Projects, focusing on regular and timely delivery of value
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Define project scope and schedule, define and track the Release/Project plan, milestones as per SOW/Release Plan and work closely with PO/SM for the same
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Manage risks and issues, Understand and flag risks/mitigations and dependencies along with SMs/POs appropriately and timely manner
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Prepare and provide progress reports and updates
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Manage deviations from plans and work closely with SM/PO in apprising client in case of any scope/plan changes and work towards negotiation/SOW edits/approvals or take corrective measures
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Be an escalation point for every SM and PO and Client on project-related issues and provide resolution or resolve the same in a timely manner
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Manage engagement/relationship with the client and work towards the inputs/feedback from the CSAT review
People and Team Management
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Work closely with SM in removing roadblocks to their work
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Understand and solves learning, development, and training needs of Projects and team members
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Set-up goals/Roles & Responsibilities for the group/team members
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Work closely with SM for defining the career path, performance improvement plan(PIP) for group/team-members
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Takes all Hiring decisions
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Do resource Management- allocation, projections and take all Staffing decisions in consultation with PO and SM
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Work with Agile Coach to find and execute training needs and places for improvement
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Skip-level meetings with people to see their motivation, any personal issues, inter-team conflict, etc.
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Evaluate the engagement level of the group/team members and take respective actions
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Experimenting with innovation projects, pet projects, product ideas
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Drives cultural change working along with Agile Coach
Process
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Works closely with Delivery Directors to discover challenges and access programs. Ensure review and retrospective recommendations are getting implemented in the projects and work closely with Agile Coach to address the challenges with proposed recommendations.
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Improving hiring and staffing process, future planning for the group growth
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Work with the Architects/Chief Architect in supporting him to adopt the recommended engineering practices
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Get Project/Delivery Audits done for Projects at regular intervals and take respective actions
360 Degree review
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Create a 360 view of project health metrics as per Srijan standards
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Represent 360 reviews for Project at a regular cadence and provide project updates in PM forums
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Get involved in team 360 review(quarterly/project end) and work towards the feedback of team members and facilitate appraisal decisions for group/team-members
Organizational contributions
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Participate and represent group in Strategy meet with required details
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Encourage team-members/group to participate in Organisation contributions/forums
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Be a channel for Srijan to showcase by attending, delivering, networking at meetups, presentations, sessions, workshops etc.
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Be an evangelist and help HR in hiring/onboarding
Required Skills/Experience
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Overall Experience of 10+ years in the Industry
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Good experience in Agile methodology
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Analytical skills
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Well-developed interpersonal skills
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Commercial awareness
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Effective Communication
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Team working skills
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Ability to motivate people
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Management and leadership skills
EnKash is a leading corporate spends management and Payments Company. EnKash’s platform helps
businesses manage their payables, receivables, corporate cards & expenses. Businesses can manage
& control their spends in a completely DIY environment. EnKash serves both, financial institutions
and businesses with an objective to bring operational efficiencies and savings in business payments
flow.
EnKash is a leader in value creation for businesses, especially SMBs. Over the past four years EnKash
has delivered savings to more than 65000 users by digitizing their processes. The best part is EnKash
works as a layer on businesses’ existing softwares and banking relationships, building state of the art
experience and accessibility. This is combined with the ease of access to credit, purpose-based cards,
end use monitoring, customisable approval workflows and integrations with leading banks and
accounting platforms, is set to ease the journey for our SMBs.
The management and founding team at EnKash come with 100+ years of experience in paymentsbanking domain and have been instrumental in bringing many firsts to the ecosystem. EnKash is
based out of India with its offices at Mumbai, NCR, Pune and Bengaluru.
While being a leader in Indian ecosystem, EnKash often gets compared with global peers like Ramp,
Spendesk, Pleo, Payhawk, Soldo, Lithic, Marqeta, bill.com and a combination of their compelling
business models.
EnKash is a series B funded company with some marquee investors on board.
Feathers in the cap:
· Winner: India Fintech Awards 2020 by NASSCOM
· Best B2B Solution provider of the year, 2020 at Payments & Cards Summit.
Responsibilities:
- Manage each project's scope and timeline
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups across teams
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e. g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Help build a productive environment where team members own' the product and enjoy working on it
- High level understanding of various tech stacks, basics of API and microservices
Requirements:
- Leadership, Decision-Making skills.
- Responsibility.
- Effective communication.
- Attention to Detail.
- Task Delegation.
- Comfortable with participatory management.
- Job Title:- Project Engineer/Project Manager
- of days:- 5 days working hours.
- Timing:- 10 a.m to 6 p.m
- Notice Period:- 1 month
- Qualification:- B.E. ELECTRICAL (MOST PREFERABLE) OR B.E. MECHANICAL
- Experience:- MIN 2YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN GROUND MOUNTED AND ROOFTOP OR MIN 5mw OF EXPERIENCE.
Job Description:-
- Having experience of solar project execution
- Site visit, material forecasting
- BOM preparation
- Solar plant drawing preparation
- Experience on AutoCAD for various drawing i.e. Plant layout, electrical SLD, earthing design, structure design planning.
- Project costing forecast, costing Estimation and cost evaluation of project as per market.
- Vendor management.
- Vendors follow-up.
- Vendors payment update and working follow-up.
- Readiness to visit any site and experienced enough to prepare the project planning.
- Responsible for on-site project issue.
- Determine and define project scope and objectives
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
- Track project costs in order to meet budget
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
- Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
- Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement
Based out of Norway, and presence in many countries, their solutions are being implemented in various industries ensuring efficient and smarter automation. Within 4 years of its existence, the company has seen 3 times revenue growth and over 100 employees building global and economical solutions and a diverse organisation well prepared for the future.
- Aligning product roadmap with delivery goals to ensure prioritizations of resources and tasks during sprints
- Coordinating with product managers, business analyst and development teams for execution of projects
- Helping in the definition of sprint goals and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensuring relevant stake holders are up to date with necessary information
- Resourcing availability and allocation
- Developing a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
- Managing changes to the project scope, project schedule using appropriate verification techniques
- Measuring project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
- Performing risk management to minimize project risks
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation
- Tracking project performance, specifically to analyse the successful completion of short and long-term
What you need to have:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT
- 3+ years as Technical Project Manager
- Experience with Agile development (Scrum/ Kanban) is must
- Experience with task tracking systems like Jira, VSTS is must
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Experience with project management tools like MS Project is a plus
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
- Good knowledge of software life cycle and processes and various methodologies
- Resource planning, performance management and team motivational skills are must.
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