Quatrro - Program Manager - Java/Integration Technology Vertical - Custom Applications

SUMMARY:

Program Manager will be responsible for managing the Java / Integration technology vertical at Share Services Centre. The candidate should be able to effectively work with the Business user groups, Product Management, Business Analysts, and Software Engineers, in house and vendor teams, to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner to deliver functional and technical solutions for various entities across the globe.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

- 12 to 15 years of IT experience. Should have worked as a project manager for at least 4 years.

- Should have good logical reasoning & technology breadth.

- Experience in software development processes, troubleshooting, testing and ability to understand and implement client requirements.

- Experience of end-user interaction for requirements gathering, understanding customer needs and working with multiple groups to coordinate and carry out functional activities related to any new development, maintenance, and production support activities.

- The incumbent will need to manage delivery, client relationship management and service improvement.

- Experience in implementing projects using open source technologies Java 7/8, J2EE, Web Services, JavaScript and frameworks like Spring and Hibernate is must. Hands on candidate would be given preference.

- Good to have hands on experience in integration technologies (ESB- s), preferably on MuleSoft.

- Should have worked on RDBMS and possess knowledge of SQL.

- Should have experience working with build and CI tools like Ant, Maven, Jenkins.

- Should be able to perform proof of concepts and contribute towards overall technology architecture of the organization.

- Experience on cloud-based technologies will be a plus.

- Should have very good understanding and experience on non-functional requirements like performance, security, scalability, capacity etc.

- Experience across the development lifecycle with large-scale, highly availability applications.

- Ensuring 100% compliance to technical, architectural and strategic standards, policies, and procedures.

- The incumbent will have to directly manage multiple technology teams including people management.

- Provide detailed status updates of all active projects, including overall product quality, outstanding product difficulties and milestones achieved.

- Good understanding of end to end IT Applications landscape in telecom or Infrastructure domain and appreciation of interplay between these.

- Experience in project management using agile methodologies, estimation.

- The candidate will need to manage delivery, client relationship management and service improvement.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Experience of managing minimum team size of 10 - 20 members.

- Resource management - should have experience in people management, work allocation, and their appraisals.

- Building and managing an effective team from offshore center. Includes hiring, training, coaching and measuring the effectiveness of the team members.

- Prior experience of managing vendor resources is a plus.

- Conduct performance reviews of team members, identify areas of improvement and give feedback.

- Understand project requirements, coordinate with resources and direct the projects in the right direction in a timely manner.

- Ability to manage change and effectively pass on the information down the line to concerned teams for smoother execution.

- Delegate and allocate responsibilities efficiently to manage projects end to end.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

- Degree holder in Engineering (B.Tech./B.E)/MBA/MCA or equivalent.

- Should have experience of managing at least 3-4 technical projects.

- Minimum 12 years of relevant IT experience in design, development and technical management of IT projects.

- Experience with finding the root cause of defects in a complex Enterprise N-Tiered environment.

- Should have experience working in onshore-offshore delivery model.

SOFT SKILLS

- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.

- Detail oriented, able to multitask and meet deadlines.

- Self-motivated, strong ownership skills with a result driven attitude.