Project Manager I

Job Summary

Project /Program Manager (Data Engineering) Role summary - Location: Offshore delivery center, India - Shift: 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST, to support US-based clients - Experience: 8 to 10 years in IT, with at least 4 years as a Project or Program Manager on data engineering projects

About the role

We are looking for a Project Manager to lead a distributed onshore/offshore team delivering data engineering and modernization work for a US enterprise client. You will be the main point of contact for the clients leads, run day-to-day delivery and governance, and manage the people side of the team: onboarding, training, performance and continuity. Youll also look for places where the client needs more support. This is a management role; hands-on technical skills are not required.

Key responsibilities

• Project delivery and tracking - Keep one integrated project plan and backlog view across all workstreams
• Run daily stand-ups and backlog reviews to track progress, blockers, risks and issues
• Monitor sprint commitments and agree recovery plans when delivery slips
• Manage scope, dependencies and change requests with client stakeholders
• Client collaboration and governance - Act as the day-to-day point of contact for client leads and managers
• Prepare and present weekly status reports and monthly governance reviews
• Keep risk, issue and decision logs, and escalate early to client and internal leadership
• Track and report delivery KPIs agreed with the client
• People management - Lead, motivate and support a team of 25 or more people across locations
• Set clear goals, give regular feedback and run performance reviews
• Spot skill and performance gaps early, and resolve them through coaching, training or a replacement
• Handle team concerns, conflicts and morale, and keep engagement and retention high
• Plan backups for critical roles and arrange timely backfills when people leave
• Onboarding and training - Run onboarding for new joiners: access, tools, process orientation and buddy assignment
• Plan, schedule and track domain and technical training for every team member
• Keep training records and certification status, and confirm readiness before assignment
• Organize knowledge-sharing and refresher sessions, and keep project documentation current
• Resource and operations management - Manage resource planning, allocation, timesheets and billing accuracy
• Coordinate hiring needs with recruitment and approve candidate fit for the project
• Make sure compliance, security and access processes are followed
• Account growth - Find areas where the client needs more support, and bring in the right internal expertise
• Help leadership turn identified gaps into new scope proposals

Required qualifications

• 8 to 10 years in IT, including at least 4 years managing data engineering, data migration, data modernization or ETL implementation projects
• Understands the data project lifecycle well enough to plan, track and question estimates. Hands-on technical or BI tool skills are not required.
• Proven people management experience with distributed onshore/offshore teams
• At least 3 years working directly with US-based clients
• Strong command of Agile/Scrum delivery and project tracking tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
• Excellent written and spoken English; comfortable running executive reviews and difficult conversations

Key skills

• Client management
• stakeholder communication
• people leadership
• performance management
• training coordination
• risk and issue management
• resource planning
• Agile delivery
• status reporting

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