Company Overview
Leading Financial Services Company in Gurgaon Location
Leading Financial Services Company in Gurgaon Location
Purpose of the Role
Lead one or more development projects taking the complete ownership of delivery.
• Guide and mentor the team and create high performing project team
• Estimate the work and plan the delivery schedule including tasks, milestones, and dependencies
• Monitor the progress of a project and ensure regular publishing of status report and quality metrics
• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in Agile methodology
• Responsible for facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
• Creates and share delivery forecasts at regular intervals based on the teams velocity
• Track the risks and issues and work to actively resolve/mitigate
• Ensure that project activities are undertaken and completed as per the processes and standards
• Suggest improvements in system development process / application areas
• Provide recommendations and help direct reports/team with talent management, objective setting, career development, job rotations, fair and timely appraisals, pipeline management, training, international opportunities, and identification of high potentials, under-performers.
• Manage vendor staff as needed and according to the agreed contract(s)
• Create an efficient and effective organisation structure. Ensure chargeability and utilisation of staff.
• Work collaboratively to optimise resource management, cross-fertilise ideas, and resolve conflicts and bottlenecks
• Minimum 3 years of experience in managing Java based development and enhancement projects
• Minimum 3 years of experience in delivering project in Agile-Scrum methodologies
• Good understanding of scrum ceremonies, agile ways of working
• Experience of managing medium, complex projects with full budgetary and delivery responsibilities
• Good knowledge of industry standard project management and methodologies
• Knowledge of project estimation techniques such as FP, OBA, etc.
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence
• Knowledge of project planning and tracking by using tools such as MS-Project
• Knowledge of Document composition engines
Desirable Skills
• Knowledge of Thunderhead
• Must have worked on Core Java
• Understanding of PaaS/Cloud
• Understanding of Configuration Management processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong people manager
• Operates largely independently, with minimal guidance and monitoring
• Appreciation and knowledge of technologies used within the project.
• Good communication, influencing, negotiation skills
• Ability to lead and motivate the project team
• Good client relationship management skills
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment
• Self-motivated, flexible, responsible, and a penchant for quality
• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written.
• Willingness to work UK business hours (though occasionally)
• Strong interest in Technology and its applications.
• Team Player