Project Manager

Brief DescriptionExperience: 10+ Years, Work Location: Kochi/Trivandrum, Hybrid Work Mode1. Completely manage a client account ensuring the right balance between delivery of ongoing projects andskills to maintain the customer relationship.2. Experience and confidence in client management with good articulation, detailing and negotiation skills.3. Capable in coordinating client interactions for product requirement grooming and detailing, productdevelopment with modern engineering practices, user acceptance testing, rollout and release phases.4. Experience in Product Development in Web/Mobile technologies with industry standard engineeringpractices (CI/CD, DevOps, Automated Testing, Unit Testing through Code, Automated Review Gates etc.)5. Passionate about going into details.6. Expertise in handling end to end project delivery in Agile Methodology with hands on experience in ProductGrooming, handling agile Ceremonies, removing impediments, Collaborating with Technical Architects,Development, Testing, Release and Maintenance of the product.7. Good Project Management skills including Estimation, Scheduling, Tracking, Commercials and Quality8. Stakeholder management and organizational change management9. Experience in working with Agile teams in Scrum Master role anchoring different ceremonies like grooming,sprint planning, sprint retro and sprint demo. Maintain and prioritize the product backlog with alignmentof Product Owners.10. Excellent team management skills, enabling each team member to improve their competencies and workquality, become better professionals11. Adequate technical exposure to understand modern web/mobile application development along with abilityto visualize and understand technology architecture12. Nice to have: Experience in Financial domainDuties and Responsibilities:1. Full ownership of delivery and pre-sales in a client account ensuring the right balance between deliveryof ongoing projects and identifying new opportunities in a client account.2. Manage a team of 15 20 resources to execute different projects3. Full ownership of functional, technical, and commercial quality of the project.4. Passion to go into details/depth on project functional & technical aspects5. Analysis Skills Natural interest to analysis and problem-solving. Should be able to analyze businessproblems faced by the client and suggest solutions.6. Be a true servant leader to the team and win the confidence of the team through regular interactions,professional friendliness, courtesy, respect, and knowledge.7. Client Managementa. Build customer confidence through detailing, pro-active nature, business value additions andqualityb. Conduct regular status meetings with stakeholders and communicate threats identified,actions planned, forecasted dates for milestones, dependencies with client teams etc.c. Negotiate and arrive at consensus on scope changes, change requests etc.d. Study the different businesses of the client company and look out for options for more digitaltransformation in such areas. Present Experion capabilities and resource skills sets inappropriate forums8. Scrum Master, Agile Championa. Product Grooming - With the help of Lead BA decide the Stories to be taken for each groomingsession based on the project scheduleb. Identify technical gaps in features during grooming and planning activities, involve Architectsas required to solve themc. Sprint planning Facilitate the Dev team to identify the tasks and absolute estimates for eachstory groomed and planned for sprint. Help the team to confirm sprint backlog based on theteam velocity and resource availabilityd. Daily Scrum meetings Conduct daily scrum meetings, identify challenges in sprint plan andtake appropriate actionse. Regularly track the progress of Sprint plan, QC Releases etc. with the help of Burn Down chartsf. Sprint Reviews/Demo – Schedule Sprint Demos at conclusion of every sprint, Identify Stories for demo and prepare demo plan with the help of Leads. Track and close comments given during demo.g. Sprint Retrospection – Promote and ensure open feedbacks from team members on good and bad things happened in Sprint, take and track suggestions to improve9. Project Metrics Managementa. Prepare and track project schedule based on the defined scope, team size, dependencies etc.b. By closely monitoring the work progress, challenges involved, identify the threats or delays inproject schedule and inform the stakeholders on the impacts with data points to substantiatec. Prepare invoice plans considering the revenue and cost of the project. Complete ownership ofmanaging the project commercials. Ensure that the margins defined in project plan is metthrough proper planning and trackingd. Prepare timesheets for TnM projects and ensure timely invoicing from clientse. Ensure the quality of every deliverable by coordinating Reviews, Testing etc. with respective teams10. Excellent communication skills – written and verbal. Articulate points with clarity and support of data11. Pre-sales Skillsa. Work with the marketing team to create project case studies, blogs etc.b. Coordinate and prepare project proposals with BA, Architects etc.12. Willingness to Travel to client sites (overseas/domestic) for short – medium duration (1 week to 1month).Any Additional Information/Specifics:- Experience in Quality assurance and production support.- Highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment- Comfortable with proactive outward communication, leadership and positive about accepting challenges.- To adhere to ISMS policies and procedures.Preferred SkillsProject Management, Product Engineering, Agile