JOB DESCRIPTIONRole Proficiency:Perform end-to-end management of a single project up to TCV of 500K with time and effort based or deliverable based model by delivering the agreed scope within the agreed timeline and cost Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met enhancing customer satisfactionOutcomes:
- Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
- Maintain regular communication with customer addressing needs through empathy with their environment
- Define activities responsibilities critical milestones resources skills needs interfaces and budget Optimize costs and time utilisation minimize waste and deliver projects on time on budget as per the contract and agreed scope with a high quality result
- Anticipate all possible risk manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy while developing contingency plans.
- Implement the governance model defined for similar projects
- Track and reports project KPIs and analyze project health
- Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs
- Provide individual and team mentoring ensuring high levels of team engagement and developing capabilities within team
- Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams
Measures of Outcomes:
- Sprint velocity/team productivity
- Planned schedule vs actual
- Planned effort vs actual
- Planned cost vs actual
- Retention
- Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change management
- Product quality (rework effort defect density defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects)
- Risk management index
- Adoption of reusable components and artefacts
- Customer satisfaction
- Team satisfaction
Outputs Expected:Scope Management :
- Conduct requirements analysis requirements elicitation scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management
- Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents traceability matrix bridge documents analysis methodologies and solution artefacts
- Partner with the customer to define their requirements elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop
- Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization
Estimation and Resource Planning:
- Consolidate estimates at a solution level evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint with assumptions scope and boundaries defined
- Review and validate estimates across service lines
- Conduct resource planning (pyramid people development) at a project level based on project requirements
- Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact to overall estimates and resource loading
- Identify the different roles and skills for each role considering the constraints pre-requisites and other project specific KPIs
Project/ Schedule Management:
- Plan and manage multiple small projects/ modules as defined within UST
- Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple small projects/ modules
- Anticipate items that cause schedule delays schedule dependencies and manage them following the proper risk management plan
- Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same
- Estimate the work plan and track the activities closely and report the progress on a regular basis
Risk/Issue management:
- Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan
- Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow escalation path
- Document the risks and issues in the project communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track the impact
Stakeholder Management:
- Identify the internal and external stakeholders on the project
- Define the RACIA chart and communicate the roles/responsibilities to the stakeholders
- Define the communication plan and implement the same
Test and Defect Management :
- Support system integration testing (functional / technical)
- Review/mentor team during test execution
- Support defining the test strategy and scenarios
- Understand the business impact of defects
- Prioritize the defects based on their criticality and severity
- Participate in defect triage meetings
- Identify and analyse root cause of defects
- Interpret the results
Software Development Process Tools & Techniques:
- Define/adopt the right tooling strategy for the project
- Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high-quality work products
- Meet project goals ensure process compliance and mentor the team
Governance:
- Tailor organization's quality guidelines and benchmarks to meet specific project quality requirements and processes
Domain / Industry Knowledge:
- Understand how the proposed solution meets client requirements
Technology Concepts:
- Understand customer's technology landscape
- Map business requirements to technology requirements
- Set expectations with the customer
- Leverage that knowledge in day-to-day work or in upgrading skills of the team
Profitability Management:
- Analyze profitability for project
- Create profitability sheet based on resource plan
- Modify parameters within profitability sheet and identify impact on margins
Pricing Models:
- Define the pricing models for medium complex projects
- Conduct estimation for medium complex projects
Knowledge Management (KM):
- Establish a KM plan and platform that can be leveraged by new joiners to the project
- Ensure the learning's from the project are contributed to the KM repository
Account Management Processes and Tools:
- Work under the guidance of the account manager to drive the account management KPIs relevant for the project
- Collaborate with other projects and enabling functions to deliver value to UST and to the customer in terms of ideas automation etc
Solution Structuring:
- Present the proposed solution to customer highlighting the solution benefits
- Understand the end in mind and the relevance of win themes
- Carve out simple solution / POC to build confident in the solution
Self-Development and Organizational initiatives:
- Review other project artefacts and assess the health of the same
- Actively participate in forums like PM forums and share best practices and learnings from own projects
- Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools from other projects to improve productivity and quality
Team Development:
- Implement a framework to assess the skill level of the team and work with the team to define a skill enhancement plan
- Nurture the innovation potential within the team
- Provide feedback and enable the team to perform independently and grow
Skill Examples:
- Impact and Influence
- Identify project risks and define action plans to manage
- Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks
- Communicate project progress to all relevant parties reporting on topics such as cost control schedule achievements quality control risk avoidance and changes to project specifications
- Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions appropriately
- Assess the project heath using quantitative measures and change the course of action as needed
Knowledge Examples:
Technologies to be implemented within the project - Structured project management methodologies (eg agile techniques)
- Estimation techniques
- Metrics analysis and quantitative management
- Root cause analysis
- People management including goal setting growth aspects and coaching
- Understanding of the quality and governance models of UST and the customer aligning the deliverables to meet those standards
Additional Comments:Required Technical Skills The Project Manager will lead cross-functional teams for one of the leading financial services organization in the US and Canada.
As a project delivery and risk subject matter expert (SME), you will also be primarily responsible for contributing to the coordination of our audit examination and remediation initiatives Other project types you will lead include (but are not limited to) strategic transformation, business integration, new product delivery, consumer experience enhancements, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency You will lead challenging coordinated efforts, and champion/teach project governance across the business unit The Project Manager is influential and credible, with a strong track record of achieving business results Required Soft Skills Proactive, Assertive, Good written and communicative skills, Willingness to reskill to other /related technologies Nice to have skills Role Description Looking for a Technical Project Manager to work with one of the leading financial services organizations in the US and Canada.
The candidate must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with domain experts and technical experts in the team Responsibilities Drive initiatives with a focus on day to day progress, schedule, cost, risk, resource management and project releases Lead design, implementation and management of assigned projects Work with leadership and BU to deliver detailed designs for business cases and projects Partner with effort sponsors and stakeholders to help define metrics and outcomes.
Perform project risk management analysis and recommend remediation actions Monitor and communicate program measures of success, plans, status, issues and risks in a timely manner to team members, stakeholders and senior management Drive engagement up, down and across a matrixed organizational structure Requirements Bachelor's degree 5-10 years of project management or related experience Experience managing Java, GCP projects or in developing Java based applications would be a plus Excellent presenter and persuasive communicator.
Sophisticated critical thinking skills that lead others to solve complex problems takes a broad perspective to identify innovation solutions Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision Success employing influential leadership without direct lines of authority Experience working in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities Excellent planning and organizational skills, with superb attention to detail.
Project Management or process improvement certifications (eg Lean Six-Sigma, PMP) Corporate audit, consulting, Risk Management or similar experience Experience designing, implementing and driving adoption of new processes MBA or other advanced degree will be added advantage Additional Notes for Recruiter Site Reliability Engineer (Senior) BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (eg, physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required 8+ years of experience developing and/or administering applications.
2+ years of strong lead experience on working/cordinating with multiple platform teams and maintain team/SRE metrics Very good experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices and application deployments Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills Very good communication skills Experience using Linux console and coding Bash scripts Site Reliability Engineer (Mid-level) BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (eg.
, physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required 5+ years of experience developing and/or administering applications Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices and application deployments Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills Experience using Linux console and coding Bash scripts