Project Manager

Reports to           : General Manager / Vice-President

Client                    : CMM Level 5 Company

Job Location       : Bangalore

Purpose:                                                                                                                                             

Ensure the delivery of quality business applications for customers

Principal Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Communicate, influence, persuade and lead by example, the core values of the company
• Identify needs and set priority for the unit that is congruent with corporate goals
• Lead and manage direct reports towards achievement of common goals
• Coach, develop and counsel subordinates
• Develop strategic and tactical plans to achieve both long term and short term business goals
• Responsible for user management, vendor management as well as delivery of projects within cost, schedule and quality
• Guide staff on project management skills, system analysis and design and programming
• Ensure business applications are designed and built to be robust, secure, reliable, resilient and auditable
• Carry out risk assessment and recommend risk mitigation measures to reduce/eradicate risk exposures
• Lead in the delivery of quality projects within costs and schedule
• Responsible for the overall delivery of business applications that meet the needs of customers (internal and/or external) by leveraging on re-usable modules for speedy and effective development and deployment of business applications
• Ensure project plans and activities are endorsed by the Project Steering Committee and properly executed and tracked till successful implementation
• Adopt QMS and CMMi best practices to ensure quality delivery of projects
• Provides technical and business advice to customers (internal and/or external) in business applications
• Establish and maintain good business relationships with stakeholders to influence and achieve business goals
• Understand the interdependencies of the services (application, system, network and database) and is able to pin-point problem area accurately to improve overall efficiency        
• Envision systems solutions and architecture
• Consistently share information on best practices and technology trends and gives recommendation on best practices for business operations
• Assume full responsibility for viability and quality of system design for all projects
• Direct the conduct of application systems audit and performance review and make recommendations for changes, as necessary                     
• Lead cross-functional  project teams to provide pre-sales and post-implementation support
• Any other duties as and when assigned                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Experience required:

• At least 10+ years experience in systems design and development & project management on Java/J2ee or Dot Net technologies.