Project Manager

Job Description

• Serve as a technical advisor and problem solver to the product team and assist them in using technology to successfully solve consumer and business problems.
• Create / Review Technical Design / Architecture of the project and suggest improvements to reduce cost and improve business outcomes, performance & scalability.
• Create / Review a project plan covering all project variables, risks & dependencies.
• Manage the project lifecycle with the objective of ensuring adherence to Schedule, Effort, Cost, and Quality.
• Play the role of a mentor and provide direction and technical expertise to Tech Leads and Technical PMs.
• Establish measurable criteria concerning deliverability, performance, maintenance, and costs with the objective of improving key metrics over time.
• Identification of project risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Identification of resource needs for the project and customer's teams’ contribution / needs.
• Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve barriers / roadblocks.
• Preparing status reports by gathering, analysing and summarizing relevant information.
• Obtaining customer sign-off of project deliverables. Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
• Removes barriers and maintains communications of updates, issues, risks, and changes to the project team throughout project lifecycle.
• Escalates issues to business, operational, and executive leaders as appropriate
• Conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, evaluate language, database, etc to be worked upon for software / application development.
• Determine stages of project and monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables
• Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
• Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.
• Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
• Work with the customer / client to freeze upon the requirements, and keep track of changing requirements and timelines.
• Help divide high level requirements to stories and work items where the latter can be accomplished in a definite amount of time.
• Define and curate assets for reusability.

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