Project Manager @ Software Co Ahmedabad

Job Description

Experience: 5+ years

Location: Ahmedabad (Work from office)

About Software Co:

Software Co is a dynamic and rapidly growing software and app development agency with its headquarters in Australia and a state-of-the-art development center in Ahmedabad, India. We collaborate with industry leaders and innovative startups to provide top-notch product planning, design, and technology solutions, delivering world-class software applications.

You must have successful past experience of independently managing a tech team of at least 20 people across multiple simultaneous web and mobile software projects delivered at world-class level.

Working in collaboration with our engineering, design and quality assurance teams, you will build software that solves real-world problems. You are a passionate advocate for software quality, its role in our society and its relationship to technology. You possess outstanding project management skills, ability to lead a multidimensional program(s) within a brand ecosystem, and a solid understanding of contemporary tools and product methodologies.

As a leader throughout the project life cycle, you are focal to the impact of the engagement. You facilitate various project workshops and processes enabling a cross-functional effort that will bring an exceptionally high-quality product and experience to consumers.

Core Responsibilities

• End-To-End management & Coordination of your dedicated development teams across multiple projects.
• This role will focus on planning, directing, and coordinating projects from initiation through to implementation.
• Clearly defining project roles & responsibilities, escalation paths, and ownership.
• Actively participating in project scope, sizing, and resource requirements.
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies with the project team and establishing various touch points with internal stakeholders and clients to communicate clear status.
• Co-ordinate with Australian Engagement & Project Managers for sprint scope and overall release scope.
• Coordinating and supervising, supporting, and coordinating the project team members/staff with regards to project deliverables.
• Contribute in the know-how of debriefing technical aspects of requirements and being able to explain.
• Tracking project deliveries using agile project management tools.
• Allocate and monitor SOW deliverables by scheduling tasks and tracking progress to delivery milestones, adhering to process compliance in producing the release level artifacts, and reviewing deliverables.
• Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements; and having accurate data on the team and their claims against the project estimates.
• Manage Risks and Dependencies.
• Managing the design of the project documents to monitor project performance and data stored.
• Reporting on project progress and communicating relevant information to Engagment Manager and project stakeholders.
• Set Key Result Areas and expectations for each team member
• Contribute to team building and resolve or escalate team conflicts with operations manager.
• Track daily progress and ensure slippages are controlled, managed and reported.
• Conduct defect triage workshops to improve on product quality.
• Co-ordinate with teams in preparation for sprint planning in order to set the team for success.
• Document and publish sprint delivery schedules and timelines.
• Manage Scope by: capturing all elements in scope item, whether charging additional to the customer or not.
• Keeping a signed off Change Order document for each chargeable scope item.
• Focus on value delivered to the customer and constantly work with client engagement and product managers.

Your Experience

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering , or prior experience in software development or QA engineering.
• 5+ years of overall experience actively as Project Manager/Scrum Master.
• Ability to effectively interpret Technical and Business objectives from the clients’ perspective as well as challenges and support the team on their deliverables.
• Prior experience directly interacting with or working with clients across the world is a must.
• Extremely strong oral and written communication skills is a must.
• Strong experience working with colleagues and stakeholders outside India.
• PMI PMP/ACP Certificate / Scrum Master certification is a plus.
• Deep understanding of all aspects of software development.
• Track record of championing agile practices and identifying right framework that can be adopted by agile teams.
• Experience in managing and tracking team velocity and other KPIs in relation to the project.
• Experience in risk management of complex projects.
• Experience in dealing with ambiguous and uncertain situations.
• Experience reporting project budgets and tracking burn.
• Experience using Jira.
• Proven track record of working independently and making key decisions.
• Ability to influence team members with innovative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Facilitate team building, roles and responsibilities and alignment workshops.
• Must have a pleasant and polished personality.