Project Manager

Key Responsibilities • Should have experience in managing FP projects • Organize, manage, and lead multiple project implementations in a fast-paced IT environment across multiple functional teams • Manage all phases of IT application development projects, including initiation, planning, execution, implementation, and post-implementation activities, leveraging best practice standards and processes • Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile, and DevOps practices • Good grasp of architecture fundamentals, APIs, integration patterns • Proficient in at least one tech stack (e.g., Java, .NET, Node.js, etc.) • Proven track record of managing end-to-end project lifecycle • Strong in project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource allocation • Expertise in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Hybrid delivery models • Exposure to Effort estimation (like FP, T-shirt sizing, WBS-based) • Ability to troubleshoot delivery blockers - technical or people-related • Experience in change management, scope creep handling, and risk mitigation • Comfortable with customer-facing roles • Ability to translate business needs to tech teams and vice versa • Experience in status reporting, steering committee updates, and handling escalations • Understands developer mindset, useful for empathy and motivation • Strong experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent • Metrics tracking: velocity, burn-down, capacity planning, quality, utilization • Ability to bring product-oriented mindset to services delivery • Uses data/metrics to drive delivery improvements • Comfortable with dashboards, Excel, PowerBI, or other reporting tools • Focus on user experience, customer value, and long-term maintainability Good to have • Occasionally contributes to PoCs or debugs blockers in UAT/Prod • Maintains some level of code hygiene knowledge