Technical Project Manager

Experience - 8 to 12 years

What will you do?

Core:

• Communicating clearly and effectively with the team as well as clients.

• Own the stages of the project from planning to delivery.

• Ability to filter reasonable and unreasonable asks and then to solve the concerns and coach the team members accordingly.

• Make sure that your team members get a good work-life balance while meeting the project deliverables.

• Good understanding of the systems as a whole, you have an innate love for understanding systems and architectures.

• Constant learning to understand the larger context around the work area and the technologies used in the projects.

Management:

• Act as a single point of contact for the client and team members

• Keep track of milestones, tasks being executed, etc, and create status reports for the same.

• Help the team set up the right processes from the beginning be it technical or around better management.

• Keep track of the schedule, risks, and any dependencies/blockers and work actively towards resolving those ahead of time

• You are clear with estimates of complex tasks and are learning to estimate modules etc. with fair degree of accuracy.

• You are able to understand priorities between modules and team members and their tasks.

• You are able to create feedback loops with external/internal stakeholders

Organization Building :

• You own and drive a few major initiatives which have organization-wide impact and work across functions and teams to make things happen as part of those initiatives.

• You are a number lover and working to improve reporting and management across organizations while causing minimal work or disruption on individual contributor s side.
  
  

What do you have?

• You are someone who is able to map the aspirations with the career progression. You have handled a team of more than 10 people and helped them grow.

• You have a solid understanding of SDLC lifecycle and do not shy away to get your hands dirty with understanding and creating technical solutions and architecture.

• Should have experience in delivering software projects with fixed scope as well as T&M.

• You are someone who has a deep understanding of converting work to metrics and come up with weekly/monthly and quarterly status reports.

• You are someone who has a background in delivery (ideally, has worked his/her way up from working as a developer)

• You love interacting with customers and are able to ask questions, get clarity and keep a clear channel of communication with them.

• You have worked in an environment where things have been out of control and you now are able to manage risks as well as have a good idea of disaster management.

• In your previous experience, you have worked in a customer-facing environment and know the best practices of client interaction.