Project Manager

JOB RESPONSIBILITY  Responsible for managing projects and related activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization.  Producing accurate and timely reporting of project status throughout its life cycle.  Accountable for managing Product development and service delivery.  Responsible for managing the project cost as per defined Budget.  Responsible to perform the auditing by external body for project milestones achievement and costing of project.  In addition to managing the development team, responsible for working closely with the product management group, the architecture team, the QA team, the production support team, the customer support team and the client engagement team to ensure on-time delivery of superior quality products as per roadmap.  Responsible for continuously monitoring the overall progress of projects and having a risk assessment and mitigation plan in place for further communication to senior management team.  Lead development team in requirements analysis, features scoping and backlog scheduling for multiple intermediate milestones until the final delivery.  Lead development team in accurately projecting efforts, resource requirements, risks, constraints in project management related activities.  Strictly implement the standards & best practices for software development and ensure process compliance.  Responsible for training and mentoring of the development team and monitoring their performance throughout the project.  Ensures resources, capabilities and capacity to meet both existing and new business demands.  Provides expert problem management support to difficult, high profile customer issues and ensures root-cause analysis is conducted and a corrective action plan is followed through with any learning applied for future benefit.  Strong project management skills: ability to provide structure in dynamic problem-solving situations.  Willingness to handle both large projects and small tasks as needed.  Handle customer & stakeholder engagement: manage customer relationship building confidence & trust ensure project progress.  Stay connected with the product market through customer facing team and direct engagement with key customers.  Provide technical and functional leadership throughout the software development life cycle.  Supporting the professional goals and development opportunities for the entire engineering staff — includes providing coaching and mentoring, one-on-one meetings and reviewing each engineer’s progress.  Bring great attitude and be a team player so that he/she becomes energy amplifier.  Willingness to extensive travel both domestic and international.  Support to Sales/ Pre-sales team for product selling. TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:  Good knowledge and handling of project management methodology and techniques.  Good understanding of the wider objectives of the project.  Ability to work positively with a wide range of individuals involved in project management.  Strong leadership and management skills.  Good knowledge in budgeting and resource allocation procedures; and  The ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems. QUALIFICATION & SKILLSET  7 - 15 years of experience in software product/project delivery.  At least 3+ years of experience in Project management.  Experience building software systems in Telecommunications industry and/or GIS platform would be preferred.  Proven team and product leadership, and an entrepreneurial spirit: a collaborative, motivated self- started.  Excellent written and oral communication skills.  Post-Graduate / Graduate in Engineering / Computer Science.  Good understanding of software project management, processes & methodologies. Should have managed product development for large enterprises for multiple years.  Should possess skills in mentoring and managing a highly technical team.  Good analytical, grasping and problem-solving skills.  Ability to work in high pressure environment.