Project Delivery Manager

Education: B.E. Computer Science/IT degree (or any other engineering discipline)

Experience: 5+ years

Work timings: 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST

Position Requirements:

- Minimum of 3 years of project management experience in a similar environment or related field, working with geographically distributed development teams

- Minimum 3 years hands on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

- Strong understanding of the development processes/full SDLC, and how they relate to project management processes.

- Understanding of web technologies to effectively manage risk & complexities within projects, and those that integrate across project teams.

- Understanding of data project, data dependencies, SQL, data warehouse technologies.

- Proven experience with project management tracking/reporting tools (eg. JIRA/ Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project or similar)

- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, or a number of project streams under a large program

- Experience managing project dependencies and blocker issues, developing risk mitigation plans, and escalating when required.

- PMI certification will be an added advantage

- Demonstrated ability for proactive issue resolution with dependencies on project success related to inter-dependencies on other teams

- Ability to work independently, with some management oversight, to manage multiple projects from inception to completion

- Ability to influence stakeholders and project resources, and negotiate or escalate when competing priorities arise, to meet commitments throughout the project timeline

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills

- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills

- Strong time management and organizational skills

- Enjoys a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment and thrives on multi-tasking

- Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and organizational skills

- Highly analytical, logical, and good problem-solving skills

- Ability to interact professionally with all levels of staff

Role & Responsibilities:

- Manage project scopes, timelines, resources, deployments, and business/technical relationships – from scoping/planning through implementation

- Manage stakeholder expectations to be in line with agreed to technical requirements, allowing the delivery of high-quality implementations to customer satisfaction, on agreed to schedules

- Ensure that project dependencies, milestones, deliverables and status are clearly communicated and understood by the project teams, stakeholders and management

- Identify and manage risks to the success of projects and know when and how to escalate

- Coordinate and conduct regular, effective, and efficient meetings to review project status, resolve issues and address risks

- Ensure project teams are following agreed to processes (priorities, task management, time tracking, etc.)

- Manage project change requests