Technical Project Manager

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Handle a portfolio of projects and clients in parallel from Fortune 1000 companies and across geographies.
• Plan for a quarter ahead and develop an execution plan for projects and people in the team. Need to be ahead of both client and internal resources in planning and execution.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with product delivery, the sales team, client and account managers.
• Make sure that the projects are achieving promised business value/RoI and figure out ways to achieve it if there is a gap.
• Build Rapport with clients and manage those effectively, high end consulting touch would be required
• Manage escalations, variations, complexities in projects effectively.
• Able to effectively use the established frameworks in project execution, client handling, resource utilization, resource mentoring etc.
• Directly supervises functional consultants, solution architects; conducts employee performance reviews/evaluations and career development discussions
• Manage up- Make sure to keep the higher management honest and able to strike a right balance between issues/items that are to be escalated vs that are to be handled.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree (preferably from a top reputed university) 
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills with small and large groups
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand Fortune 1000 client business complexities and handle those

Experience:

• Overall 8+  years of professional services experience with extensive experience in customer facing  roles and involved in requirements gathering, gap analysis, feasibility study etc.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as Project manager or equivalent role demonstrating management and leadership experience, preferably in a fast paced consulting / professional services set-up.
• Minimum 1 year of experience managing large portfolio, leading cross-functional teams and tracking the project progress against the plans
• Experience in leading and mentoring people as part of the project life cycle.
• Experience in following the established processes/standards/templates to achieve successful results.
• Experience with Invoice-to-Cash related business process is desirable

Critical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team management and collaboration skills
• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders and have challenging discussions
• Proven problem solving, risk mitigation and analytical skills
• Excellent team and interpersonal skills
• Strong ownership to drive the projects from start to finish with maximum client delight

• UNIX / LINUX - 2 to 5 years’ experience
• DB design - 2 to 5 years’ experience.
• Team Lead - 2 to 5 years’ experience managing a team size of 8 - 12 persons.
• Overall experience in managing platforms across web & mobile developments, ability to conduct scrum meets, allocate & monitor work.
• The candidate should have an overall experience of 7 to 10 years, with a combination of the above.
• Strong team management skills, ability to drive the team & meet the deliveries.

Responsibilities:

• Provide on-site leadership for the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.

• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.

• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.

• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.

• Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes

• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings.

• Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews.

• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.

Experience

• Minimum 1 year of experience as Project Manager

• Project Management Experience in managing teams of sizes 10-12 people in multiple domains. Managed international projects in mobile and web.
•     Knowledge of UI / UX process
•     Knowledge of Cloud Deployments - AWS, Azure, Docker
•     Knowledge on creating SRS / Scope Documents, Functional specification, technical architecture and project estimations.
•     Knowledge on Mobile Technologies (IOS/Android/Hybrid/Shell apps)
•     Hands on experience on working with SOAP and REST web services (XML/JSON)

What you need to have:

• Project Manager will be accountable to handle the projects with delivery aspect such that the client is satisfied.
• Ability to manage a large size customer – Overall planning & execution.
• Lead planning and implementation of projects.
• Resource Allocation and Management.
• Develop and maintain project metrics and dashboards.
• Ensuring profitability of the project by accounting, costing and billing of projects.
• Project schedule and Tracking preferably JIRA or any other Scrum based tracking tool.
• Manage Risk and Issues logs with mitigation plan.
• Timely communicating with all stake holders about the status of the projects.
• Manage and trace requirements and scope creep.
• To keep client satisfied and grow the account.

• Project Management.
• Scoping the technical solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers met and unmet needs, and recommends optimum solutions.
• Hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
• Excellent client-facing, interpersonal, internal communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.