Technical Project Manager
- Bridge International
- 8 - 13 yrs
- Hyderabad
- 5 years ago
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About the Role
The main purpose of the role is to take an approved project brief, which lays out a high-level business problem to be solved, and deliver the appropriate technical solution to the company. To do this, you will develop a product specification matching to the project brief, drive the evaluation of various off-the-shelf software solutions, and oversee the implementation and rollout phases, whether in-house or outsourced.
You will work with focus on one, sometimes two, projects at a time over the period of several months - perhaps half a year on some projects. Once a given project has successfully been delivered and transitioned to support, you will move on to the next identified project.
In the course of this work, you will be communicating with very senior members of the organisation (often c-suite, MDs, and VPs) across globally diverse locations. Your reporting lines will evolve as the department grows, but you will initially report to the global Director of IT Operations.
What You Will Do
- Collect requirements, understand the business needs, and document them in a functional specification for review and approval
- Articulate what is possible and what is not - and negotiate and influence the stakeholders on the associated features
- Present, discuss, and explain ideas coherently and logically both in writing and verbally. Your proposals will be reviewed with scrutiny by senior members of the organisation, who are time-poor and who will expect you to be able to be able to defend your ideas, but also be open to feedback - strong opinions, weakly held should be your mantra
- Interface with technical leadership team (director of software, enterprise apps lead, software architect, etc.) to ensure the solution being proposed/delivered is technically fit for purpose and in line with Bridge architectural and technical standards
- Document project requirements and define software requirement specifications
- Own and manage project end-to-end from Project Brief through successful Project Closure
- Coordinate and manage internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects, including task allocation, motivation, and productivity
- Perform periodic risk assessment and minimise risks through appropriate planning and escalation
- Oversee change management and rollout strategy, in coordination with business stakeholders
- Produce the appropriate documentation at various stages of the SDLC, including scoping, quality assurance/test cases, design specifications, and stakeholder engagement (milestones, status updates, risk assessments)
- Perform overall day-to-day management of the project
Required Candidate profile
What You Should Have
- 8-14 years of proven work experience as a Technical Project Manager
- Experience in evaluating software applications provided by the open source community and comparing against commercially available solutions
- Proficiency in the complete project life cycle: writing a charter, doing estimation, creating a plan, planning resources, managing risk, tracking and monitoring delivery, communicating project status, and closing the project
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills, including attention to detail and multitasking
- Technically strong professional preferred
- Certified in PMP or similar preferred
- Ability to cope in a complex and fast-changing business environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Good influencing and persuasion skills, with the ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams and to build successful relationships at all levels - good team player and highly self-motivated
- Clear decision-making ability, with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues - the ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritization and a pragmatic approach
- A detailed doer You have a track record of getting things done. Youre organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company
- A creative problem-solver Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, Bridge works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand
- A relentless advocate The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parents hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value
- A malleable learner You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where youve missed things or failed today
- A data-driven decision-maker When making decisions, you dont rely your intuition alone. You collect data, you analyze it and make decisions with clear justifications
- A curious investigator You ask why a lot. You dont just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust
Education:
UG: B.Tech/B.E.
PG: MCA - Computers, MBA/PGDM, MS/M.Sc(Science), M.Tech
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Keyskills: risk management project management pmp open source technical leadership it operations it project management project life cycle technical project manager risk mitigation change management
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