Technical Program Manager

👋🏼We're Nagarro.

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (19000+ experts across 33 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must Have: Salesforce Workflow
• Should have strong technical background with Java (Strong), Microservices architecture (MSA) (Strong), DevOps, AWS, Java, Cloud, Micro Services, DevOps
• Sound knowledge of project management, agile and software development practices
• Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms
• Well versed with PM tools essentially MS Project and MS Excel
• Experience in frontend and mobile apps
• Ability to conduct code reviews and ensure quality compliance
• Financials Management dealt with PL of various accounts
• Design and develop complex mappings, performance tuning of mappings, Process Flows
• Hands on experience on System designing, Event sourcing and message broker architecture
• Requirement gathering and analysis
• Define, understand, and analyse non-functional requirements for project
• Lead the technical team
• Should be able to compare technologies to find best fit for project requirements
• Should be able to troubleshoot complex or unusual bugs

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring client satisfaction above all
• Showcasing a consulting mindset by acting as a solution provider rather than an order taker
• Identifying project/service stakeholders at an early stage and working with them to ensure that the deliverables are in sync with the benefits defined in the business case.
• Planning, organizing, and monitoring the project to deliver high quality business solutions.
• Defining the scope of the project/service, managing goals, risks, issues, and resources throughout the project lifecycle.
• Mentoring and managing team members, by giving constant on the job feedback, and by providing guidance
• Ensuring project quality of work meets defined governance, process standards and best practices.
• Reporting the status of all key metrics (eg: risk, scope, schedule, quality, customer satisfaction) from inception through closure
• Assisting the account management team in responding to new project requests
• Identifying opportunities in the current engagement to cross sell or up sell Nagarro’s offerings.

Job Description

Delivery Manager -

• Manage a delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries.

• Oversee daily activities of the delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.

• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.

• Ensure that team maintains a high level of competence and operational excellence.

• Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

Roles & Responsibilities

Delivery Management and Escalations

• Owns the end to end delivery of the Projects, focusing on regular and timely delivery of value

• 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

• Manage risks and issues, Understand and flag risks/mitigations and dependencies along with SMs/POs appropriately and timely manner

• Prepare and provide progress reports and updates

• 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

• 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

• Manage engagement/relationship with the client and work towards the inputs/feedback from the CSAT review

People and Team Management

• Work closely with SM in removing roadblocks to their work

• Understand and solves learning, development, and training needs of Projects and team members

• Set-up goals/Roles & Responsibilities for the group/team members

• Work closely with SM for defining the career path, performance improvement plan(PIP) for group/team-members

• Takes all Hiring decisions

• Do resource Management- allocation, projections and take all Staffing decisions in consultation with PO and SM

• Work with Agile Coach to find and execute training needs and places for improvement

• Skip-level meetings with people to see their motivation, any personal issues, inter-team conflict, etc.

• Evaluate the engagement level of the group/team members and take respective actions

• Experimenting with innovation projects, pet projects, product ideas

• Drives cultural change working along with Agile Coach

Process

• 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.

• Improving hiring and staffing process, future planning for the group growth

• Work with the Architects/Chief Architect in supporting him to adopt the recommended engineering practices

• Get Project/Delivery Audits done for Projects at regular intervals and take respective actions

360 Degree review

• Create a 360 view of project health metrics as per Srijan standards

• Represent 360 reviews for Project at a regular cadence and provide project updates in PM forums

• 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

• Participate and represent group in Strategy meet with required details

• Encourage team-members/group to participate in Organisation contributions/forums

• Be a channel for Srijan to showcase by attending, delivering, networking at meetups, presentations, sessions, workshops etc.

• Be an evangelist and help HR in hiring/onboarding

Required Skills/Experience

• Overall Experience of 10+ years in the Industry

• Good experience in Agile methodology

• Analytical skills

• Well-developed interpersonal skills

• Commercial awareness

• Effective Communication

• Team working skills

• Ability to motivate people

• Management and leadership skills

A Project Coordinator at Rubico IT will get to communicate with clients and use a highly-organized and structured approach towards coordinating with developers to create customized websites and related applications.

The Project Coordinator will require excellent time management and communication skills, as he/she collaborates with clients and internal teams to deliver results on deadlines. Project Coordinator responsibilities include working closely with the clients to prepare comprehensive action plans, including resources, timeframes, and budgets for projects. 

Required Skills

• 2+ years of experience in handling small to mid-sized IT Projects
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and soft skills to build trust and relationship with clients globally (Preferred working with US clients)
• Good knowledge of project planning, execution along with time, risk and cost management.
• Understanding of agile project management using Scrum
• Good understanding of other project management methodologies like Kanban and Waterfall
• Conceptual knowledge of web/mobile development technologies
• Good understanding of Open Source CMS (WordPress, Drupal or Magento)
• Basic to an average understanding of Servers, Hostings and DNS
• An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans
• Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
• Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g. Basecamp, Jira or Trello)

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

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Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

• Facilitating all Board Meeting and CEO reviews (weekly/ monthly/ quarterly)
• Flagging risk from smallest to largest which can derail projects or cause tart misses
• Owning and organizing quarterly planning sessions with internal partners with content, agenda, preparation, and oversight of deliverables
• Helping drive data driven presentations for the leadership team in both internal and external engagements
• Driving cross-functional objectives at the leadership level with exceptional project management and ownership

Desired Candidate Profile

• Graduation/ Post graduation (preferably in Strategy and Finance)
• 3+ years of experience in assisting executive leadership
• Excellent communication skills (English & 1 regional language)
• Competency in using MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of data tools
• Understanding of business operations and related finance
• Comfort running strategic workshops with executive teams
• Extensive program management skills and ability to lead and facilitate strategic initiatives in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to partner, execute, and lead through influence    

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 Description

Experience : 10+ Years

Location : Pune

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience with a proven record of increased responsibility
• Hands on experience in design, development and managing Big Data, Cloud, Data warehousing
• and Business Intelligence projects
• Experience of managing projects in Big Data, Cloud, Data warehousing, Business Intelligence
• Using open source or top of the line tools and technologies
• Good knowledge of Dimensional Modeling
• Experience of working with any ETL and BI Reporting tools
• Experience of managing medium to large projects, preferably on Big Data
• Proven experience in project planning, estimation, execution and implementation of medium to
• large projects
• Should be able to effectively communicate in English
• Strong management and leadership skills, with proven ability to develop and manage client
• relationships
• Proven problem-solving skills from both technical and managerial perspectives
• Attention to detail and a commitment to excellence and high standards
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Position is remote with occasional travel to other offices, client sites, conventions, training
• locations, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business\Economics, or a related field or demonstrated,
• equivalent/practical knowledge or experience

Job Responsibilities:

• Day to day project management, scrum and agile management including project planning, delivery
• and execution of Big Data and
• Primary Point of contact for customer related to all project engagements, delivery and project
• escalations
• Design right architecture and technology stack depending on business requirement on Cloud / Big
• Data and BI related technologies both some on-premise and on cloud
• Liaise with key stakeholders to define the Cloud / Big data solutions roadmap, prioritize the
• deliverables
• Responsible for end to end project delivery of Cloud / Big Data Solutions from project estimations,
• project planning, resourcing and monitoring perspective
• Drive and participate in requirements gathering workshops, estimation discussions, design
• meetings and status review meetings
• Support & assist the team in resolving issues during testing and when the system is in production
• Involved in the full customer lifecycle with a goal to make customers successful and increase
• revenue and retention
• Interface with the offshore engineering team to solve customer issues
• Develop programs that meet customer needs with respect to functionality, performance,
• scalability, reliability, schedule, principles and recognized industry standards
• Requirement analysis and documentation
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope
• Prepare for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures
• Visit and/or host clients to strengthen business relationships

Project Manager

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud?’

Do you cloud?

1. Expertise driving infrastructure engineering projects & transform initiatives from deep-tech startups to 42,000U (1,000 42U racks) loaded enterprises.
2. Have you tandem-jumped at least 50 times taking along a trusted business having on-prem workloads to safe-land onto a public cloud with a soft touchdown?
1. Do you understand the innards of Apache web servers on Linux and Sharepoint Server Farms alike?
2. Do you speak CloudFormation? Terraform? Do you speak JSON? 
3. Do you love automating everything possible leveraging Python / Powershell / Bash?
3. Are you a voracious reader fascinated by the latest & greatest innovations on public cloud?

Introduction

We welcome *really unconventional* creative thinkers who can work in an agile, flexible environment. We are a flat organization with unlimited growth opportunities, and small team sizes – wherein flexibility is a must, mistakes are encouraged, creativity is rewarded, and excitement is required.

1. This is an entrepreneurial project management position that challenges the client status quo by helping them re-imagine the art of what is possible using consulting mindset and business strategy skills.
2. This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - ability to coordinate with Sales - Presales - Delivery - MS and get project delivery done. 
3. This position is for hard-core-geek-turned--engineer-turned-Tech enthusiast -turned-Project Manager.

What we are NOT looking for: Buzzword Bozos (BB) or Certification Chasers (CC).

What we seek is an AA (Awesome Attitude to Learn, Improve & Coach).

Not just a BB or CC? Quick self-discovery test:

When was the last time you thought about how GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) can help auto-create new building designs for an architect or new jewellery designs for a designer OR passionately convinced a friend that Google Video Intelligence API or AWS Rekognition can now auto-video-screen an applicant with 90+% confidence level almost automating 75+% efforts of a recruiter, OR leverage Google Vision API to do e-KYC? If this is what you constantly get blamed for & your friends have made a strip for you on xkcd, you are probably the right-fit for what we are looking for.

Your bucket of Undertaking :

This position will be responsible to consult with the clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS  or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitates the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform

Education, Experience, etc.

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)

1. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
2. 3 - 5 years of experience with at least 1 - 2 years of hands-on experience in delivering Cloud Consulting(AWS/GCP/Azure) projects in a global enterprise environment.
3. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
4. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

A quick self-discovery test below:

1. How you treat yourself & others?
1. You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
2. You have ‘one’ life - no work life or personal life. You are the same at both places.
3. You are generally happy and passionate about life. When shit does happen you know how to tell your heart ‘All is well’.
4. You are compassionate to yourself, you love your work, your company, your country, and are generally a person people like to be around.
2. How you work & live?
1. You make difficult & complex decisions in an environment filled with lack of well defined constraints and uncertainty.
2. You are able to admit to your team that you were shit scared while making those decisions.
3. You are able to juggle conflicting priorities and remain composed as the client keeps on changing requirements. :)
4. You are genuinely passionate about developing great software, learning a lot, helping others learn and  having loads of fun while doing so.
3. What you love?
1. You love things. You are passionate. You care for your self, family, country and Big Bang Theory (and this is a must!).
2. You love to organize, index, and improve things around you - Yes you are Sheldon’ish’ at times and ‘Leonard’ish’ the other times.
3. You are passionate about improving processes and you truly feel satisfied by making things better.
4. You love Google. And AWS. And Terraform. And CI - CD pipelines. And linux.