We are looking for a technical project manager. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the successful planning, execution, and delivery of projects. You will collaborate with the Software Development Team, Business Team, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. The role requires excellent project management skills, technical expertise, and a strong ability to communicate effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading project planning sessions
- Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
- Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
- Managing project progress and adapt work as required
- Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
- Create, maintain and monitor comprehensive and complete documentation of all assigned projects
- Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
- Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
- Assist in proposal & project writing
- Track, forecast, and report on project progress.
Skills Required
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams’ needs
- Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyze and improve sprint planning
- Proven working experience as a project administrator in the information technology sector
- Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent in written communication/documentation with real focus on attention to detail with a capacity to listen, understand and synthesis
- Expertise in usage of tools like JIRA, Redmine Trello, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS word with a strong grip for flow charts, process flows
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skill
- Result-driven & strong work ethic
- Organizational and presentation skills
Minimum Education and Experience Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in IT, computer science, business management, or a related field.
- Demonstrable expertise in agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred
- Work Experience of 5+ years
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