As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for identifying, scoping, and delivering a large end to end project. You
will have the opportunity to engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive of and design innovative products.You will be comfortable working through ambiguity. You thrive through building consensus and driving teams towards results.You will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needsversus technical constraints. An ability to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces to deliverthem in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent andleadership are essential to success in this role.The right candidate will possess proven program management skills, will demonstrate experience leading medium to largeproducts and projects. You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You are nothindered by managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. You will be data-driven andanalytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across the org and up to senior leadership.Key Responsibilities
- Drive the project management, application-lifecycle-management and access control vision
- Work with engineering and architecture leadership to define platform capabilities
- Collaborate with the multiple functional teams in Airtel XLabs to deliver the platform services Evaluate open source and
partner technologies
- Liaise with other teams that are instrumental in delivering the project management capability
- Participate in one or more scrum teams as a product owner to define goals, set priorities and manage backlog
- Set criteria for release readiness with regards to functionality of the solution
- Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives in fast-paced and complex programs and
projects
- Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical
program objectives
- Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success
- Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs
- Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths
Experience & Skills
Skills Required
- Demonstrated success managing multiple major and concurrent programs
- Prior experience driving development of massive-scale distributed data platforms, recommendation and
- search technologies, big data pipelines, and/or analytical tools.
- Significant experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams and individual contributors
- Ability to communicate authoritatively at a sufficient technical depth
- Agile coaching and practitioner experience (Scrum, Kanban) with multiple teams
- Experience in managing all phases of end-to-end product development
- Knowledge of Internet client/server social networking applications and systems
- Hands-on software development experience a plus
Educational Qualifications
Work Experience
