This Project Management role is part of the product development team. His primary responsibility will be to take ownership for development / enhancement of various product components.
As a Project Manager:
- You will be responsible for adhering to timelines, efforts and quality of a delivery.
- You will need to understand the objectives for a release for a given component.
- You will have to understand with the help of technical architects the work elements, complexity, risks, dependencies involved.
- You will be responsible to create a plan and track it.
- You will be expected to work with both internal development team as well as outsourced product development teams.
- Ability to manage and work with external development partners will be important.
- You will be responsible for managing the team / people reporting into you.
Desired Skills and Experience You should Have:
- A technical degree (Engineering Or MCA) from a reputed institute with a minimum of 12+ years of experience in the software industry, with atleast 3 years’ experience in managing project and people.
- A deep understanding of all aspects of software design with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility
- Experience managing project budgets, resources planning/management and reporting
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to effectively communicate across 3rd parties, technical and business product managers
- Enough analytical and technical skills to understand technical complexities and pre-empt project risks / challenges.
- Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
- Strong coding experience, ability to get into the code and drive to solutions and experience delivering projects.
- Good people management capabilities. This will not only include managing and motivating people but also identifying potentials and grooming them.
- Should have worked on projects on .Net, C#, ASP.Net, SQL server for Software Product Development Projects / ETL-BI for BI projects.
- Should have hands on experience in coding and trouble shooting for at least 5 years.
- Should be aware of various project management matrices.
- Should have worked on projects with US clients.
Personal Attributes we are looking for:
- Systematic and process oriented.
- An eye for detail.
- A ‘can do’ attitude to be able to work within existing constraints and come up with innovative ideas that may not be obvious or apparent.
- Maturity and level headedness to be able work with multiple teams and maintain healthy relationships with various internal and external stake holders.