Crisil - Transformation Project Lead - GAC (10-15 yrs)

Job Title : Transformation Project Lead - GAC

Location : Mumbai / Pune / Hyderabad

About the role :

- As a Transformation Project Lead, you will be leading a team of Product Owners (POs) and developers and will be responsible for management, oversight, and execution of various work stream activities that are required to deliver products/solutions to our clients.

- This is a techno-functional role, you will be empowered to own the strategy and execution of your product roadmap, lead engagement level planning, coordination and delivery of technology infrastructure.

- You will play a critical role in shaping transformative initiatives across GAC, a core aspect of our strategic priorities.

- You will play a critical role in ensuring execution aligns with end-to-end architecture design and ensuring deployment deadlines are met with quality and act as the primary liaison and single point of escalation to the Client and the internal technical team.

- We are seeking a strong software/Platform Product Owner to work with our team in order to deliver the best software solutions to our innovative and industry-leading products/Platforms.

- If you are the kind of person who combines a deep software engineering background with ability to execute and make it happen, you are the candidate we are looking for.

Key responsibilities include :

- Ensure successful implementation of products & solutions to the customers

- Understand client needs and effectively communicate with implementation teams (Product Owners, IT, and end users)

- Lead client discussions, prepare presentations solutions, project plan, budget, project health

- Define and manage a product vision, roadmap & growth opportunity that serves internal stakeholders and external stakeholders

- Lead complex projects & development of platform.

- Lead the project team to develop new state of the art and cutting-edge data pipeline architectures for complex distributed systems.

- Align requirements with internal and external partners and customers & coordinate with vendors.

- Ensure SLA, cost efficiency, scalability, resilience, and legality of CRISIL data pipelines.

- Participate in planning sessions and other related meetings and sessions with internal business users as well as external customers; take the lead of scrum teams & providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements

- Review, plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

- Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities

- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

- Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product. Follow our competitors and the industry

Candidate Profile :

- 10+ years of experience as Product Owner in Platform or Data Analytics products

- Masters in computer science, Engineering or similar relevant field or engineering Graduate with MBA.

- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles

- Experience and comfort managing data-heavy products.

- Technical aptitude: past experience in business analysis, data management or analytics highly preferred

- Intermediate SQL skills and advanced documentation skills.

- Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills

- Excellent organizational and time management skills

- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills

- Creative thinker with a vision

Work experience :

- 10+ years of work experience as a product owner/business analyst in BFSI sector either in IT Services Company or Product Based Company working with digital transformation journey.

- Experience in leading ML/AI driven projects

- Understanding and experience of Product Development Life Cycle, Product backlog and experience of working in an Agile development environment

- Proven business analysis skills and strong understanding of system architecture with experience in BFSI risk regulatory domain solution is a plus

- Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills

- The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis, drive key metrics in project delivery

Essential Qualifications :

- Masters in computer science, Engineering or similar relevant field or engineering Graduate with MBA.

- Degree in Data Science is preferred