Mobileware Technologies - IT Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager - 1

Profile summary:

The Project Manager is to be an organized, detail-oriented individual overseeing software projects from start to finish, managing and motivating software developers, other team members, engaging with customers, and providing inputs for project proposals. 'Project Manager-1' plans, organize, monitor, and oversee one or more projects to meet defined requirements or business specifications; and collaborates with development, testing, incident management, and customer facing teams and guides efforts towards achieving organizational business results; and manages cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs on time, within budget, and at required quality; with customer centricity.

Role and Responsibilities:

The Project Manager should have a good working knowledge of project estimation techniques, the ability to motivate team members, and demonstrates good communication, and decision-making skills, with a high level of customer empathy. Key Role Responsibilities includes:

- Determines project goals and priorities, in collaboration with management/PMO; and may be responsible for one or more projects; and negotiates the assignment of activities with team members and their reporting managers, in a matrix organization

- Provides performance inputs, for the team members, to functional/administrative managers; and supports for identifying professional development for each team member and coach them to clarify assignments and deliverables; & mentor others in project management practices.

- Co-creates a project initiation plan with the team, including the definition of completion and success criteria; and organize the work into manageable activity clusters (phases); compiles the estimates for a project; and prepares project plans and monitors and reports project progress

- Manages, and communicates, the project's objectives, scope, efforts, milestones, and creates a project environment that enables peak performance by the team members

- Manages monitoring and reporting on project progress to meet plan, quality, cost, schedule and resource optimization requisites. Tracks project milestones for forecasting and alerting for invoicing.

- Manages risks (Identifies risks and creates risk mitigation plans); & ensure reporting, analyses, and pro-active identification of any variance; determines when to escalate issues to appropriate management levels and mitigate risks, as needed.

- Coordinates with other project management practitioners, and collaborate with Solutions/Technical Architects and Product Engineering. Manages relationships with project stakeholders, and keeps them informed of progress, and issues; & manages delivery of project requisites and expectations

- Oversee project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge bases; analyses lessons learned and best practices; and shares with other project management practitioners and management

- Collaborates with PMO to ensure implementation of project management guidelines; in alignment to Agile/SDLC practices and the build and release management requisites

- Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken to reassess and amend the scope of work requirement, budget, and timeline, if/as needed

- Resolves issues related to client relations, project quality, project risk and project management

- Provides status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership. & Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities

- Works creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence. & Participate in establishing best practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization

- Prepares estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project. & Manage project scope and changes. & Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolutions

- Evaluates the projects on completion, analyze the challenges (and undertakes root cause analysis, if/as needed) that occurred during the execution of the project and conduct project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, along with handover documentation. & support incidence management and other ongoing activities, as applicable

- Leverages problem solving skills and periodically assess improvement opportunities in the workflows, and drives the teams for process innovations and for accelerating continual improvements across functions.

General Requirements:

- B. Tech/B. E. in Computer Science or Electronics, or equivalent in similar related field, from an institute of repute; and with typically 7 to 10 years of relevant work experience, with preference for post-graduation in relevant area. Combination of education and experience, may be considered in lieu.

- Certification in Agile Scrum, Agile Safe, PMP, ITIL, and/or Lean-IT, is preferred

- Good project management skills including time and risk management, resource balancing and prioritization, and project structuring. & Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Demonstrable results orientation with focus on product quality, time to market and hand-on experience to track and manage end to end Projects/Products/Services delivery needs

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence skills and verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold your own in strategy discussions with the leadership and executive teams

- Experience in SDLC, Agile methodologies, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Software Configuration Management systems & associated tools

- Experienced in actively coaching and mentoring team members for talent development and cross-skills learnings, in a flat matrixed organization

- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs. & Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with the maintaining organizational architectural guidelines

- Flexible both in mindset and readiness to work a variety of working hour; and be able to work under pressure and time-pressing deadlines

- Knowledge of fintech and the products like UPI, BBPS, IMPS, etc. is strongly preferred

About Mobileware:

An innovation centric product company, Mobileware thrives on the potential of a fast-paced financial landscape in India. Over the years, we @ Mobileware have made a "Digital" difference to all types of banks viz. PSUs, Cooperative and Urban & Rural banks. To know more about us, you can view our website at www.mobilewaretech.com.