Project Manager - PROJECT MANAGEMENT Job

Experience

10-12 Years

Job Description

Experience: 10-12 Years:

Note – Timings would be US shift (6 PM IST to 3 AM IST)

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead Data projects. The candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to drive project planning, estimation, execution, and delivery.

Key Responsibilities:
•    Lead end-to-end project planning, execution, and delivery.
•    Manage Data Engineering, Data Platform projects.
•    Collaborate with stakeholders and technical teams to define scope, timelines, and priorities.
•    Coordinate with architects, SMEs, and development teams to create WBS and effort estimates.
•    Manage project schedules, risks, dependencies, resources, and deliverables.
•    Facilitate Agile ceremonies and track project progress.
•    Monitor project health and provide regular stakeholder updates.
•    Support testing, releases, and quality assurance activities.
•    Drive issue resolution and continuous process improvement.

Required Skills:
•    6-8 years of experience in IT/Technical Project Management.
•    Experience managing Data, Integration projects.
•    Good understanding databases, cloud platforms, and back-end systems.
•    Strong experience in Agile/Scrum project delivery.
•    Experience in project estimation, WBS creation, and resource planning.
•    Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and reporting skills.
•    Ability to manage multiple projects and cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Working exposure on API Development projects.
• PMP, CSM, or SAFe certification.
• Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and MS Project.

Exposure to Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Agile Methodologies

• Has good knowledge of agile methodologies and principles.

• Able to apply Agile methodologies in real-world scenarios

Facilitation

• Basic understanding of facilitation techniques and their importance in Agile.
• Able to facilitate agile ceremonies and meetings.

Coaching and mentoring

• Has basic knowledge of coaching and mentoring techniques.
• Able to coach and mentor team members

Agile Tools

• Able to effectively use Agile tools to manage Agile projects.

Agile Technical Practices

• Has limited knowledge of agile technical practices.
• Can apply agile technical practices to support the project delivery.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Takes responsibility for and ensures accuracy of results and deadlines of the function and/or team and in completing own work.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Agility:

• Demonstrates openness to the possibilities that change presents and begins to plan for how role may change.
• Works with others to prepare for change.

Customer Focus:

• Identifies trends and patterns emerging from customer preferences and works towards customizing/ refining existing services to exceed customer needs and expectations.

Communication:

• Communicates well-organized ideas, information, and data to broad and diverse audiences across the Organization (through formal and informal presentations).
• Helps others identify their appropriate audience.

Drives Results:

• Sets realistic stretch goals for self & others and perseveres to follow through with resilience and remains calm in a crisis or stressful situation to exceed organization/client expectation.

Resolves Conflict:

• Identifies and understands the source of conflict, addresses, and overcomes.

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