Project Manager

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Project Delivery: Own project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, ensuring delivery commitments are met within agreed timelines, scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Project Planning & Governance: Develop and maintain project plans, roadmaps, milestones, resource plans, and delivery schedules. Establish effective governance mechanisms and reporting processes.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, product owners, architects, and senior management to align priorities, manage expectations, and facilitate timely decision-making.
• Multi-Workstream Coordination: Manage multiple concurrent workstreams, track interdependencies, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure alignment across project deliverables.
• Risk & Issue Management: Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies), proactively identify delivery risks, develop mitigation plans, and escalate critical issues appropriately.
• Agile Delivery Management: Drive Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog prioritisation, progress reviews, and retrospectives, while adapting delivery practices to project requirements.
• Business–Technology Alignment: Work closely with business and technical teams to translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans and ensure requirements are clearly understood and implemented.
• Status Reporting & Metrics: Prepare project dashboards, status reports, management presentations, and KPI-based updates covering delivery progress, risks, dependencies, resource utilisation, and milestones.
• Release & Deployment Coordination: Coordinate testing, UAT, release planning, deployment readiness, go-live activities, and post-implementation support in collaboration with relevant teams.
• Resource & Vendor Management: Coordinate resource allocation, capacity planning, third-party dependencies, and cross-team commitments to ensure efficient project execution.
• Change & Scope Management: Manage scope changes, delivery expectations, project documentation, and approvals through established change-control processes.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, governance, communication, and execution efficiency.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10–15 years of overall experience in the IT industry, with substantial experience in project or program management.
• Proven track record of managing complex technology projects involving multiple teams, workstreams, and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), project planning, delivery management, and release processes.
• Hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies.
• Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Project or equivalent tools.
• Experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and escalation-management skills.
• Ability to engage with senior business and technology stakeholders and communicate complex project matters clearly.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Experience working with global teams across different geographies and time zones.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, drive accountability, and deliver outcomes in a dynamic enterprise environment.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Working knowledge of enterprise application development and integration.
• Exposure to technologies such as Java, Oracle applications, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems integration.
• Understanding of application architecture, testing methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams, business analysts, QA teams, infrastructure teams, and external vendors.
• Familiarity with project dashboards, delivery metrics, and reporting tools such as Power BI or advanced Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or equivalent project management certification is an advantage.

Key Competencies

• End-to-end project ownership
• Project governance and delivery excellence
• Stakeholder and client management
• Multi-workstream planning and execution
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Agile delivery and SDLC knowledge
• Executive communication and reporting
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Problem-solving and continuous improvement

Skills

Project Management, Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder management