Responsibilities

It's a role that perfectly blends soft skills like leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution with some technical know-how.

• Effectively manage end-to-end software projects including planning, execution and delivery on time and within budget
• Develop detailed project plans, including project baselines, timelines, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
• Develop project cost estimation
• Ensure Risk management through identification & mitigation strategies whilst ensuring transparency with stakeholders and leadership team.
• Plans team resource needs and works closely with other managers to set clear expectations and roles for project team members.
• Communicates plans, statuses, and issues to the clients & leadership team
• Build strong, trusted relationships and ensure customer/stakeholder feedback, concerns, and issues are regularly captured and addressed
• Build team continuity and resiliency in order to drive ongoing effectiveness and quality improvements
• Support all customer/stakeholder and other key events throughout the project lifecycle to include test events, integration, deployments, training, technical exchanges, and other regular engagements.
• Work independently with minimal direction, lead project team & mitigate conflicts across work-streams.

Backlog Management

• Backlog Management and refinement in collaboration with PO (or customer) and Engineering teams.

Communication

• Track and communicate sprint plan, goals to internal, external stakeholders and leadership team through KPIs and metrics.

Onshore coordination

• Onshore / Offshore coordination and handshake of responsibilities and deliverables.

Qualifications Must Have Skills

• Minimum 8+ years of experience as Project Manager with software development managing medium to large / complex projects with 3+ years in senior roles.
• Bachelor's/Master's in CS, IT, Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience as Project Manager with in-depth knowledge of delivering projects to the Customer.
• Strong knowledge of Project management, Agile / Scrum / Kansan, Waterfall and other project management methodologies
• Experience with Agile (& some DevOps) tools like JIRA, Confluence, Gitlab/bitbucket, etc.
• Strong understanding of software / application development processes and some understanding of DevOps practices and principles
• Strong leadership, problem solving & communications skills with “Can Do” attitude
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or any equivalent Certification

Desired (Nice to have) Skills

• Relevant knowledge in PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter), JavaScript Frameworks (Angular/React/View/Node), Python, Mobile app development (iOS/Android)
• Proficiency in project analysis and estimation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Understanding of security compliance and accessibility.