Sr. Technical Project Manager

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Position Summary:

Being a seasoned PM is all about achieving project goals & helping team succeed in this

endeavor. PM should be client focused and have experience handling multiple teams. PM

should have pre-sale experience in understanding the scope of the project, creating WBS and

estimating the right skills needed. Eventhough PM themself doesn’t write requirements or code

or test plans but is in position to review and man-age SDLC. PM communicate, coordinate, and

facilitate, doing whatever it takes to help the team deliver what’s asked of them. PM should have

excellent knowledge of the scrum framework (SAFe will be Plus) with all its artifacts and

techniques. PM will also need the ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally

facilitating changes) with your mind set on deliverables. If you’re a strong communicator, a

capable leader and you’re invested in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Safe etc.), we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities:

• Efficiently manages multiple concurrent project assignments, project tracking, issue resolution,

time sheet logging and reporting, and communicating project progress.

Develops, manages, and maintains comprehensive, accurate project plans and schedules, as

well as performs estimation, forecasting, planning, analysis, issue / risk / change management,

escalation management, meeting facilitation, variance analysis, and status reporting to the

Account manager key stakeholders

• Responsible for effective project kickoff, identification of all project stakeholders, helping to define

and clarify project roles and responsibilities.

• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and

employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

• Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with teams and clients

(internal and external)

• Experience in creating and presenting Project Status Report to stakeholders
• Past experience in technically managing teams and is a techno-manager with ability to manage

projects developed on any platform/language

• Works with Scrum Teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive

decision-making and support organizational project or product teams.

• Resolves team impediments including dependencies (across team or with customers) to ensure

deliverables are on time with high quality

• Is proactively communicating stakeholders on issues/risks & its impacts
• Skillfully manages scope of projects and the expectation of the stakeholders, and the forward

progress of teams responsible for the work

• Guides and coaches multiple Scrum Teams on how to use Agile practices and principles to

deliver high-quality products and services to our customers.

• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Background of being a technical lead with experience in delivering project in a fast-paced

environment

• Expertise on any Project Management Tools like JIRA, Microsoft Project etc
• Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to

Outlook, Word, Powerpoint and Excel.

• Experience of creating WBS based on project requirement and sizing it for Pre-Sales
• Customer obsessed and vocal in raising the bar for team both in quality and timelines
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an

understand- ing of facilitation techniques

• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories,

auto- mated testing, backlog refinement)

• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software

development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management

principles and practices

• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
• PMP, CSM, Prince2, Six Sigma, Green Belt or Black Belt certifications are highly preferred.
• SAFe experience is Plus