Project Manager

Pay Rate: $75.0 per hour

Responsibilities:

• Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable based model by delivering the agreed scope, within the agreed timeline and cost.
• Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met, enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external).
• Maintain regular communication with the company, addressing needs through empathy with their environment.
• Define activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces, and budget.
• Optimize costs and time utilization, minimize waste, and deliver projects on time, on budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high-quality result.
• Anticipate all possible risks and manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy while developing contingency plans.
• Implement the governance model defined for similar projects.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams.
• Conduct requirements analysis, requirements elicitation, scope control, and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management.
• Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix, bridge documents, analysis methodologies, and solution artifacts.
• Partner with the company to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop.
• Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the company for scope prioritization.
• Consolidate estimates at a solution level, evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint, with assumptions, scope, and boundaries defined.
• Review and validate estimates across service lines.
• Conduct resource planning (pyramid, people development) at a project level based on project requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact on overall estimates and resource loading.
• Identify the different roles and skills for each role, considering the constraints, prerequisites, and other project-specific KPIs.
• Plan and manage multiple small projects/modules as defined within the company.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple, small projects/modules.
• Anticipate items that cause schedule delays, schedule dependencies, and manage them following the proper risk management plan.
• Identify options to fast-track the schedule and plans to implement the same.
• Estimate the work, plan and track the activities closely, and report the progress on a regular basis.
• Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs. Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan.
• Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow the escalation path.
• Document the risks and issues in the project, communicate them to all relevant stakeholders, and closely track the impact.
• Identify the internal and external stakeholders on the project.
• Define the RACIA chart and communicate the roles/responsibilities to the stakeholders.
• Define the communication plan and implement the same.
• Support system integration testing (functional/technical).
• Review/mentor team during test execution.
• Support defining the test strategy and scenarios.
• Understand the business impact of defects.
• Prioritize the defects based on their criticality and severity.
• Participate in defect triage meetings.
• Identify and analyze the root cause of defects.
• Interpret the results.
• Define/adopt the right tooling strategy for the project.
• Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high-quality work products.
• Meet project goals, ensure process compliance, and mentor the team.
• Tailor the organization's quality guidelines and benchmarks to meet specific project quality requirements and processes.
• Understand how the proposed solution meets company requirements.
• Understand the customer's technology landscape.
• Map business requirements to technology requirements.
• Set expectations with the company.
• Leverage that knowledge in day-to-day work or in upgrading the skills of the team.
• Work under the guidance of the account manager to drive the account management KPIs relevant for the project.
• Collaborate with other projects and enabling functions to deliver value to the company and to the company in terms of ideas, automation, etc.
• Present the proposed solution to the company highlighting the solution benefits.
• Understand the end in mind and the relevance of win themes.
• Carve out simple solution/POC to build confidence in the solution.
• Review other project artifacts and assess the health of the same.
• Actively participate in forums like PM forums and share best practices and learnings from own projects.
• Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools from other projects to improve productivity and quality.
• Implement a framework to assess the skill level of the team and work with the team to define a skill enhancement plan.
• Nurture the innovation potential within the team.
• Provide feedback and enable the team to perform independently and grow.

Requirements:

• Identify project risks and define action plans to manage.
• Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks.
• Communicate project progress to all relevant parties reporting on topics such as schedule achievements, quality control, risk avoidance, and changes to project specifications.
• Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions appropriately.
• Assess the project health using quantitative measures and change the course of action as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• Technologies to be implemented within the project.
• Structured project management methodologies (e.g., agile techniques).
• Estimation techniques.
• Metrics analysis and quantitative management.
• Root cause analysis.
• People management including goal setting, growth aspects, and coaching.