Director - Project Management

Job Description

Skills and Experience:

· 16-19 years of experience in the IT industry in delivery roles; 5+ years on experience in program or portfolio management with large, geographically distributed teams.

· 8+ years of experience coupled with strong business domain knowledge in the financial services domain (preferably capital markets/ investment banking), with an IT consulting/ services firm.

 · Experience of setting up delivery teams or an account and ramping it up to 80+ people.

· Project or Program management experience across the full SDLC lifecycle involving different methodologies like agile, iterative, waterfall and hybrid.

 · Prior experience of managing delivery engagements with quality frameworks such as CMMI.

 · Experience across service offerings (e.g. application development, maintenance, re engineering, migration, etc.), different pricing models (fixed price, fixed capacity, time and material, etc.) and engagement models (partner/ vendor managed, co-managed and client managed).

· Prior experience in managing senior and demanding stakeholders (Director/ VP or higher) across business, technology and operations with customers based in US or UK.

 · Must be consultative and solutions’ oriented; prior experience of structuring or defining solutions oriented delivery engagements and troubleshooting critical delivery issues.

· Experience of managing high priority/ high severity production issues. · Strong commercial acumen with high proficiency in effort/ cost estimation.

 · Strong knowledge of project financials and IT services contracts.

 · “Hands on” delivery leadership experience on complex/ high risk projects.

 · Experience of driving pre-sales effort as the bid manager (i.e. large proposals and sales pitches) and mining accounts/ farming for opportunities in existing customer businesses.

· Strong outcomes focused leadership skills with strong people focus.

 · Demonstrated ability to drive change and continuous improvement journeys across delivery excellence and margin improvement.

 · Prior experience of managing senior managers in a matrix organization.

· Very strong business communication, negotiation and conflict management skills. Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in a Software discipline. MBA Preferred

Mandatory Competencies