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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

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to managing end-to-end implementation project life cycle, driving optimization of operating models 
• Determine Project Scope, Objectives and Dependencies
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule, work plan and key milestones
• Determine and Define Project Resource Allocations
• Manage Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies on Project by assigning appropriate ownership and escalations
• Capture project health metrics, maintaining a central repository for all projects and project information that provide insights into processes and frameworks that work 
• Establish and execute Project Governances viz., Steerco Meetings, Weekly Cadences and Track Action Items to closure
• Conduct governance calls for ongoing projects and ensuring project commitments are being met by Darwinbox’s implementation team as well as the Client’s implementation team 
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Collaborate with Client on requirement changes and initiate change management process
•  Identify, document and update the project scope for changes
• Initiate appropriate review and approvals on the changes
• Evaluate and analyze the impact of changes and communicate with stakeholders
• Seek approvals and commitments on the scope, cost and schedule
• Ensure SOP adherence, time-logging, effectively making use/ driving adoption of Project Management tools and methodologies 
• Review/prepare Project Plans for implementation projects and monitor resource allocation 
• Identify Stakeholder Communication Requirements on project performance metrics
• Collaborate with Product Teams on Product enhancements
• Document impact and prioritize changes to Product Backlog and timelines
• Stakeholder Reporting - Preparing status reports, highlighting risks to the project timelines, proactively escalating potential red flags, and recommending mitigation solutions 
• Track Project Closure / Handover activities to downstream teams. 

General Requirements: 

• B. Tech or an equivalent degree 
• MBA or an equivalent degree is preferred but not mandatory 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to work under pressure and adaptable to change 
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills 
• Proficiency in MS Office tool.
• Any experience in MS SharePoint, MS Power Automate, Excel Macros, and Project Management Tools like JIRA, and Zoho Projects is an added advantage 
• Any Project Management (PMP/ Prince2/Agile CSM) or Agile certification is mandatory 

•  8-10 years of prior experience in a project management role is preferred with strong experience in HRMS implementation.

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specified projects ensuring consistency with project management governance.

• Overseeing the total project list and in particular the key critical projects
• Sharing project status with senior management on a regular basis
• Resolves complex problems or transactions, where expertise is required to interpret against policies, guidelines or processes.
• Full ownership for one or more processes, reports, procedures or products, and may also be considered analytical or procedural experts representing a unit or team on cross-function process or project deliverables.
• May supervise day-to-day work of junior level employees, but will not typically have formal management role.
• Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area to resolve issues.
• Ensures creation of project plan and charter benefits management plan, stakeholder management plan, acceptance plan, and central project issue log.
• Ensures resources are assigned to project & monitor commitment.
• Ensures change control is executed throughout project.
• Identifies, documents, and understands project dependencies Identify key stakeholders who participate in project scope definition.
• Tracks actual project costs, identify variances, and reforecast project costs as needed.
• Measures project management performance against standards.
• Ensures appropriate project staffing levels.
• Establishes project communication needs and create project communication plan.
• Creates the project risk management plan.
• Partners with cross function peers to create, administer, track, and eventually close project contracts.
• Client conversation and onboarding experience in middle office or portfolio accounting area
• PMP certified candidate is preferable..

Summary
• The project lead is a core member of the agile teams implementing EdTech solutions. These EdTech solutions, ranging across Learning Platforms, Assessment systems, Simulation Training, and Interactive content, are to be fit-for-purpose, efficient, and of high quality.
• The responsibility of the project lead is to guide the overall implementation of the solutions created by the Zeus Learning team and address day-to-day issues related to the client’s business processes

The essence of Role – key accountabilities
• Take charge of the project and help it succeed
• Work with cross-functional teams to create a shared vision
• Coordinate all activities to run the project
• Build product roadmaps, run agile ceremonies and manage stakeholder expectations
• Educate teams about software development processes.
• Be the interaction point between Zeus Learning teams and the client and set correct expectations
• Ensure the product shapes up as envisioned

Requirements
• Should have a history of managing large projects.
• Good understanding of agile software development processes.
• Should be able to run teams and keep people motivated throughout the project.
• Have great negotiation skills