Iris Software - Senior Program Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :-

- Experience in the IT industry in delivery roles.

- 5+ years on experience in program or LoB management with large, geographically distributed teams (onshore and offshore).

- Financial Service background must have.

- 5+ years of strong business domain knowledge in the financial services domain (preferably capital markets/ investment banking), with an IT consulting/ services firm.

- Experience of setting up medium size delivery teams (25+ people) organized across one or more projects/ work streams.

- Project or Program management experience across the full SDLC lifecycle involving different methodologies like agile, iterative, waterfall and hybrid.

- Experience across service offerings (e. application development, maintenance, re[1]engineering, migration, etc.), different pricing models (fixed price, fixed capacity, time and material, client manage etc.) and engagement models (partner/ vendor managed, co-managed and client managed).

- Strong commercial acumen with high proficiency in effort/ cost estimation.

- Very strong business communication, negotiation and conflict management skills.

- Strong knowledge of project financials and IT services contracts.

- Hands on delivery leadership experience on complex/ high risk projects.

- Experience of driving pre-sales effort as the bid manager (i. large proposals and sales pitches) and mining accounts/ farming for opportunities in existing customer businesses.

- Prior experience of managing leads / PMs in a matrix organization.

- Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel.