Project Manager

JOB SUMMARY

Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable-based model, delivering agreed scope within agreed timeline and cost. Ensure project success and acceptance criteria are met, enhancing customer satisfaction. Key Responsibilities

• Identify key stakeholders and maintain positive business relationships.
• Communicate regularly with the customer, addressing needs with empathy.
• Define project activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget to optimize cost and time utilization.
• Anticipate and manage risks by applying suitable risk management strategies and developing contingency plans.
• Implement defined governance models.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Implement software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs.
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices.
• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
• Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents and traceability matrices.
• Partner with the customer to define and elicit requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis of scope changes and negotiate scope prioritization.
• Consolidate estimates, evaluate risks, and validate estimates from a technical standpoint.
• Review and validate estimates across service lines.
• Conduct resource planning at a project level.
• Identify roles and skills required for each role, considering project-specific KPIs.
• Plan and manage small projects or modules, identifying and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
• Anticipate and manage schedule delays and dependencies.
• Identify options to fast-track the schedule.
• Estimate, plan, and track activities, reporting progress regularly.
• Proactively identify and track dependencies impacting project KPIs.
• Identify and track project risks, following escalation paths.
• Document and communicate project risks and issues to stakeholders.
• Define RACI charts and communication plans.
• Support system integration testing, review test execution, and support test strategy definition.
• Understand the business impact of defects, prioritize, and participate in defect triage meetings.
• Identify and analyze root causes of defects.
• Define/adopt project tooling strategy and guide the team in developing quality work products.
• Tailor organization's quality guidelines to project requirements.
• Understand how proposed solutions meet client requirements.
• Understand customer technology landscapes and map business requirements to technology requirements.
• Present proposed solutions to customers.
• Review other project artifacts and participate in PM forums to share best practices.
• Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools to improve productivity and quality.
• Develop and implement a framework for team skill assessment and enhancement.
• Nurture innovation within the team and provide feedback for growth. Required Qualifications
• Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable-based model.
• Deliver agreed scope within agreed timeline and cost.
• Ensure project success and acceptance criteria are met.
• Identify key stakeholders and maintain positive business relationships.
• Maintain regular communication with the customer.
• Define activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget.
• Optimize costs and time utilization.
• Anticipate and manage risks.
• Implement governance models.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Implement software delivery methodologies.
• Adopt software engineering best practices.
• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
• Drive the creation of common standards.
• Partner with the customer to define and elicit requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis of scope changes and negotiate scope prioritization.
• Consolidate estimates, evaluate risks, and validate estimates technically.
• Review and validate estimates.
• Conduct resource planning.
• Identify roles and skills.
• Plan and manage small projects/modules.
• Identify and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Anticipate and manage schedule delays and dependencies.
• Identify options to fast-track the schedule.
• Estimate, plan, and track activities, reporting progress regularly.
• Identify and track dependencies.
• Identify and track project risks.
• Document and communicate project risks and issues.
• Define RACI charts and communication plans.
• Support system integration testing.
• Review test execution.
• Support test strategy definition.
• Understand defect impact and prioritize defects.
• Participate in defect triage meetings.
• Identify and analyze root causes of defects.
• Define/adopt project tooling strategy.
• Guide the team in developing quality work products.
• Tailor quality guidelines to project requirements.
• Understand client requirements and proposed solutions.
• Understand customer technology landscapes.
• Map business requirements to technology requirements.
• Present proposed solutions.
• Review project artifacts.
• Participate in forums and share best practices.
• Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools.
• Assess team skill levels and define enhancement plans.
• Nurture team innovation.
• Provide feedback and enable team performance.

Skill Examples:

• Identify project risks and define action plans.
• Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual tasks.
• Communicate project progress to relevant parties.
• Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions.
• Assess project health using quantitative measures.

Knowledge Examples:

• Technologies to be implemented within the project.
• Structured project management methodologies (e.g., agile techniques).
• Estimation techniques.
• Metrics analysis and quantitative management.
• Root cause analysis.
• People management including goal setting, growth, and coaching. Preferred Qualifications
• None mentioned. Certifications
• None mentioned.