Technical Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Management to provide technical oversight and high-level guidance on conversations with vendors/partners, third parties and MSIL support functions
• Help remove impediments that vendors/partners cannot address by themselves
• Ability to validate work estimates provided by vendors/partners, at a high level
• Take ownership of successful delivery of the project
• Proactively sense risks to the project schedule, help mitigate them and escalate, if needed
• Work collaboratively with vendors/partners towards successful project delivery
• Be on top of all technical aspects on the product, at a high level
• Lead all conversations that involve interfacing with MSIL applications
• Provide reports for the project, to leadership at a regular cadence
• Work closely with scrum master(s) to ensure project success
• Stay connected to the ground situation by holding regular and frequent conversations with Product Owners and Architects
• Add to the Project Management body of knowledge of the CoE
• Track project progress and performance with the help of carefully selected metrics and be able to communicate the same to leadership
• Constantly track product quality and support proactive and reactive initiatives
• Attend key project events such as Planning, Demo/Review and Retrospective meetings
• Ensure deviation in vendor/partner performance is highlighted to relevant MSIL stakeholders and support corrective action
• Own the project governance model and ensure it is followed and adapted to specific needs
• Constantly evolving the ways of working to ensure continuous improvement
• Work closely with MSIL Vendor Management and Program Management team(s)
• Have regular contacts with the Department Head to brief him/her about status, risks and learnings
• Ability to effectively manage and co-ordinate multi team (5+) environments

Skills

• Project management skills: Scope, Cost, Schedule, Risk, Quality and Vendor management
• Proficient in the agile ways of working with a working knowledge of Scrum and Kanban
• Ability to get the job done’
• High level understanding of technology stacks (front-end: e.g. React, Angular, back-end: e.g. .NET, Java, databases, cloud etc.) and their applicability in different business scenarios
• Well versed with the usage of Jira and Confluence, as a user (and not necessarily as an administrator)
• Understand the MSIL application landscape and their interfaces.
• Have a good understanding of agile philosophy and the mindset and be able to user the same in his/her day-to-day workings.