Technical Project Manager

Job Description

14-17 Years of experience in the IT industry in delivery roles; 5+ years on experience in program or LoB management with large, geographically distributed teams (onshore and offshore).Financial Service background must have .

•    Strong technical background 
•    Experience in financial service domain for 5+ years (preferably capital markets/ investment banking), with an IT consulting/ services firm.
•    Experience of setting up medium size delivery teams (25+ people) organized across one or more projects/ work streams.
•    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[1]engineering, migration, etc.), different pricing models (fixed price, fixed capacity, time and material, client manage etc.) and engagement models (partner/ vendor managed, co-managed and client managed).
•    Prior experience in managing demanding senior stakeholders with customers based in US and of Asia origin.
•    Must be consultative and solutions’ oriented; prior experience of structuring or defining solutions oriented delivery engagements and troubleshooting critical delivery issues.
•    Strong commercial acumen with high proficiency in effort/ cost estimation.
•    Very strong business communication, negotiation and conflict management skills.
•    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 leads / PMs in a matrix organization.
•    Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel.
•    Delivery background of technology complex projects especially in migrations and data practice.

Mandatory Competencies