Senior Project Manager - IT Projects

Senior Project Manager

Experience: 10 - 16 Years

Job Location: Noida

Notice Period: Less than 60 days preferred

Job Description:

- Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of complex IT projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and client expectations.

- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and resource requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.

- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, resource allocation plans, and delivery tracking mechanisms.

- Manage project execution from initiation through closure, ensuring adherence to agreed scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, and contractual commitments.

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, architecture, quality assurance, infrastructure, business analysis, and operations, to ensure effective project delivery.

- Establish project governance frameworks, reporting structures, escalation mechanisms, and stakeholder communication plans.

- Monitor project progress, identify risks and dependencies, resolve issues, and implement appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.

- Conduct regular project status meetings, steering committee meetings, stakeholder reviews, and delivery governance sessions.

- Manage client relationships and communicate project progress, challenges, risks, and delivery outcomes to senior stakeholders.

- Oversee resource planning, capacity management, effort estimation, and team allocation to ensure efficient utilization of project resources.

- Manage scope changes, project dependencies, assumptions, risks, and issues through appropriate change-control processes.

- Ensure adherence to project management methodologies, delivery standards, quality processes, and organizational policies.

- Drive Agile project management practices, including sprint planning, backlog reviews, retrospectives, and delivery reviews, wherever applicable.

- Maintain accurate project documentation, including project plans, status reports, RAID logs, meeting minutes, and lessons learned.

- Identify opportunities for process improvement, delivery optimization, and increased project efficiency.

- Collaborate with business and technical teams to ensure project outcomes meet agreed requirements and client expectations.

Role Requirements:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.

- 10+ years of experience in IT project management, delivery management, or program coordination, with demonstrated responsibility for managing complex projects.

- Proven experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.

- Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.

- Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or similar platforms.

- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate multiple stakeholders.

- Strong client-facing experience, including project reviews, status reporting, escalation management, and stakeholder communication.

- Experience in risk management, change management, resource planning, and project governance.

- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

- Strong leadership, decision-making, organizational, and conflict-resolution abilities.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and ensure timely delivery of project commitments