Technical Project Manager

Job Type: Full Time

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Technical Project Manager with strong expertise in JIRA, SAFe Agile. A candidate who has handled critical Fixed bid or Fixed timeline project delivery at enterprise scale client organization on SAFe mode. Having a data knowledge is value addition, must be able to leverage AI tools to accomplish day today tasks on time. Must have Jira hands on exposure. Must be good in communication. Non-technical background candidates are not entertained for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate custom application development projects using Agile methodology.
• Coordinate with different project, business teams, scrum teams, technical teams, and end-users in achieving the corporate deliverables on-time.
• Capture meeting notes and track action items.
• Strong interaction with the Business, Business Process Engineer, Super Users, Systems Analysts, Software Specialists, UX Developers and Project Managers are essential.
• Collaborate with other IT and Business teams to enable the Project teams with high delivery standards.
• Have the capability to understand web and mobile development languages like AWS Cloud, Angular, JavaScript, .Net, HTML5/CSS, SAP etc. and able to work with them to meet the business requirements.
• Ability to handle the team dynamics.
• Sound knowledge in SAFe Agile practice.
• Should have good communication skills.
• Should possess fundamental knowledge on cloud platform.
• Prototyping Mindset in terms of Design thinking/Design Sprint approach with team.

Required Skills

• Project Delivery/Reporting
• Lead and coach scrum adoption
• Team Management

Certifications

• Preferred SSM or SASM or SA in SAFe practice
• PMI Certification (Good to have)

Key Responsibilities

• Display Servant leadership and enable the Agile practices within the team through practice.
• Solid experience in Sprint activities, identifying priorities and dependencies.
• Good experience in effectively managing the product backlog using JIRA .
• Arrange and optimize product backlog.
• Help communicate the owner s wish list to the project team.
• Organize scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure project deliverables are delivered on time with right quality as per IFF standard practice and guideline.
• Good Experience in Risk identification and mitigation.
• Track and control the schedule, resources, and costs.
• Coach Teams in Best Practices to achieve common project goal.
• Ability to drive 2 or more Scrum teams.
• Facilitate Scrum Collaborations and co-ordinate with the project stake holders.
• Facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle of AIML models, including ideation, prototyping, experimentation, production deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
• Competency: Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and experience in managing projects involving AI/ML technologies (good to have)
• Implement changes and steps to increase the team s productivity.
• Collaborate with other scrum masters to improve the methodologies efficiency.
• Remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics.
• Support SAFe principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
• Helps the team coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Able to collaborate and work closely with Cloud/Infrastructure team and handle the change requests/deployments.

Experience Criteria

• Total Enterprise experience 10+ Years.
• 5+ Years in collaborative project delivery who comes with technical background and handling projects in agile mode of delivery.

Background / Academic Qualification

• Bachelors /Post Graduate degree or higher in science or engineering.
• MBA or other advanced degree is a plus.

Courses

• AWS Fundamentals Specialization. (Good to have)
• Design Sprint. (Good to have)
• Atlassian
• Jira Fundamentals. (Must)
• Reporting in Jira Software. (Must)
• Gain Project Insights through JQL. (Good to have)

Job Relevant Competencies

• Good in presentation skills.
• Strong MS Office skills (Excel / PPT/ Word etc.,).
• Project management Tool - Atlassian JIRA.
• Good in Communication skills (Verbal and Written).
• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills; meet challenging timelines.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Ability to deliver prototypes/proof of concepts in design sprint mode.

Required Skills

• 10+yrs of technical project Manager exp, 5+yrs relevant with technical background
• Safe agile exp preferred

Good to Have

• Safe agile certification
• PMP certification

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