Project Leadership Specialist

Project Management Role Overview

As a Project Manager, you will lead IT projects from conception to delivery, ensuring success within scope, timeline, and budget. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, establish project goals, and drive execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Serve as a servant leader to team(s), establishing and maintaining an environment where the team(s) can be effective, fostering a relationship between the team and the Product Owner as well as other dependent teams and protecting the team from outside interruptions.
2. Encourage open communication and transparency while focusing on predictability, quality delivery, and continuous improvement of the team and overall program execution.
3. Facilitate your team to enhance creativity and improve the efficiency of the development team.
4. Oversee Scrum teams, facilitate backlog refinements, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, retrospectives, and ensure continuous improvement and predictable quality outcomes.
5. Work closely with the Product Owner and Business Analysts to maintain well-groomed product backlogs, plan sprints effectively, and coordinate with dependent teams.
6. Resolve conflict using Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect.
7. Maintain Agile charts, ratios, and metrics that provide organization visibility and insight about the team morale, quality, and productivity demonstrating continuous improvement.
8. Utilize team feedback and metrics to identify opportunities and areas for improvement.
9. Coach individuals emphasizing interactions over processes, best practices, and tools to ensure successful deliverables.
10. Help team or individual to clarify goal(s) and actions to achieve them.
11. Ability to shield team(s) from outside distractions and interferences.
12. Ability to ensure the correct use of Scrum process.
13. Anticipate and resolve risks, dependencies, and roadblocks by collaborating with departments such as HR, PMO, IT, CS, and Management to facilitate quick resolutions.
14. Track the preparation work required for future sprints, including backlog refinement and the removal of showstopper impediments.
15. Act as a career coach for team members to help them understand and identify their natural talents and strengths, grooming their competencies, career paths, and personalities to reach their fullest potential.
16. Build a solid understanding of the US Healthcare IT domain – Provide feedback to the Business Analysis team on the documentation and UXI.
17. Close collaboration with Client Services to watch Support tickets SLAs and opportunities for improvements.
18. Coach Agile Practices and Scrum Values to cultivate the right culture in the teams.
19. Resolve inter-team and intra-team conflicts, impediments, and roadblocks.
20. Create communication channels between the organization, Product Owner, developers, and stakeholders.
21. Implement Processes and Policies.

Key Qualifications:

1. 9 to 12 years of relevant Software development experience with a solid delivery track record.
2. Bachelor's degree in Computer, Engineering, Management Sciences, or other relevant degree.
3. Strong knowledge of Software Engineering, SDLC, Agile frameworks, DevOps, and processes.
4. Proven experience in coaching teams through Values, Project Management standards, Engineering best practices, quality assurance, backlog management, and team performance metrics.
5. Knowledge and understanding of backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition.
6. Excellent presentation, coaching, and engagement skills to inspire and influence teams and stakeholders.
7. Experience in US Healthcare IT industry project delivery will be preferred.
8. Enterprise level Software as Service (SaaS) Product development experience will be preferred.
9. Candidates with a demonstrated track record of consistent, long-term career commitments will be preferred.
10. Masters in Project Management or PMP, PSM, CSM, S@S, SAFe certification(s) will be preferred.

Benefits and Compensation Package:

• Competitive salary and bi-annual bonus.
• Fast track and uncapped career growth for high performers.
• Company-sponsored vehicle financing (car and bike).
• Interest-free loans.
• Provident Fund: matches up to 8% of your base salary.
• Fuel Card.

Health and Wellness Benefits:

• In-house clinic with a team of certified male and female doctors with 24/7 telemedicine service.
• Hospital treatment monitoring by company doctors.
• Comprehensive health coverage for your immediate family (outpatient, inpatient, maternity, and parents' inpatient).
• Exclusive health benefits and discounts at top-class clinics and labs.
• Pick-up and drop-off services for female employees.
• In-house daycare facility.
• In-house gym and recreational area to unwind.
• Company-sponsored trainings, workshops, development programs, and retreats.
• Paid specialized trainings/certifications.