As a Project Manager, you will be enabling a team to build a highly scalable and extensible big data platform that provides the foundation for collecting, storing, modeling, and analyzing massive data sets from multiple channels for Fortune 2000 customers.
Responsibilities:
Own end-2-end project execution
o Ensure timely delivery of projects with expected quality and stakeholder requirements.
o Ensure projects are delivered within scope and budget.
o Coordinate with Team Leads / SMEs to track dependencies and timely resolution.
o Build & ensure adoption of processes to measure & track execution progress using appropriate systems / tools.
o Ensure visibility of execution progress by timely reporting and cadences with stakeholders - both internal & external
o Ensure resource availability and allocations.
Build a delivery plan along with tech leads, domain experts.
o Play the role of scrum master and help TLs in sprint planning & backlog grooming.
o Help Tech Leads in epic, story designing & planning - scope, prioritize & allocate technical tasks to team members.
o Own release management - create a delivery roadmap and ensure intermediate milestones are achieved and handed over to appropriate stakeholders.
o Mitigate delivery risks by timely identification, communication & mitigation action plan.
Measure, track and improve execution efficiency.
o Define key parameters / KPIs to measure execution efficiency.
o Conduct retrospective sessions with appropriate stakeholders to identify gaps/improvements in project execution.
o Ensure systematic adoption of execution/delivery improvements.
o Introduce & ensure adoption of appropriate systems, tools & techniques for continuous efficiency measurement.
o Assess quality of deliverables by seeking timely & regular feedbacks from end-users/stakeholders
o Design and/or improve the stakeholder/end-user feedback & CSR forms.
Stay up-to-date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customer & Sigmoid
o Experience in defining technical requirements for data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs.
Culture
o Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional /
out:of:box.
o Analytical and data driven orientation.
o Raw intellect, talent and energy are critical.
o Entrepreneurial and Agile: understands the demands of a private, high growth company.
o Ability to be both a leader and hands on doer
o Problem-solving skills and Conflict Management
Qualifications:-
10+ years of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or related technical
discipline is required.
Very good understanding of the overall SDLC process.
Experience in executing projects as scrum master with delivery team comprising of
highly competent developers in fast paced work environment.
Experience in delivery of Enterprise scale applications.
Bigdata & analytics experience (nice to have)
Experience in leading quality assurance of software/IT projects (nice to have)
Preferred Qualification:
Experience in agile methodology
Experience with managing multiple projects.
Experience in change management & scope re-alignments
Experience in managing post release support & operations.
Hands-on experience in project management tools like - JIRA, You Track, Asana, Confluence, Wiki etc.
Development, QA and/or support experience in Big Data domain
Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, MapReduce, Oozie, Hive, Impala, Spark,Kerberos, KAFKA, etc.)
