Technical Project Manager - Transformation (DM2/Manager), Mumbai

Job Title: DM2/Manager

Department: IT

Reports to: Assistant Vice President – IT

Experience:4 -7 Years +

Required Qualification: BE/ B Tech/ MCA/ MBA

Preferred Qualification: BE/ B Tech/ MCA/ MBA

Skill, Knowledge &Trainings:

· Experience working with Web Development / Integration Projects within the Module/s

· Should be able to manage multiple technical projects on different tracks within the assigned module/s and provide technical inputs as required to the development team

· Be the Single Point of Contact for the business/ Application module and 3rd party vendor.

· Experience working with Business analysts, designers, developers and product teams.

·Act as a scrum master by facilitating Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups. The Incumbent should be able to remove roadblocks for development while ensuring smooth application development.

·Ensure timely project status and status reporting to the management. Develop risk mitigation strategies.

·Lead the team throughout entire SDLC lifecycle including Quality Assurance of the end product.

·Oversee Production Support and ensure resolution of the production issues within SLA.

· Self-started with excellent interpersonal skills, great attitude and a go-getter spirit is a plus.

· Knowledge of Information Technology infrastructure, network architecture.

· Knowledge of trading application and exchanges

Core Competencies (Must have):

·         As per Knowledge and Skills given above

·         Capital Markets/ Debt Markets Knowledge

·         Business Analyst / Project Management Experience

Additional Competencies (Nice to have):

·         PMP/PRINCE 2 or any Agile certification recognized by scrum.org

·         Domain Knowledge Banking/ Capital Markets/ Trading Exchanges

·         Technical Certifications

Job Purpose:

The successful candidate would join the IT Department of a critical Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) organization which serves as a Qualified Central Counterparty (QCCP) for Government Securities, Money Market, FX and Derivatives transactions in the Indian financial markets.

The successful candidate would play the role of “Project Manager” in the “IT Transformation Programme” which envisages a modernization of critical applications so as to align with the target state enterprise architecture, to adopt a contemporary or futuristic technology stack and tools, to improve system scalability, reliability, maintainability, and to reduce the time to market for change requests or new functionality requested by the business departments. The transformation programme is expected to be an evolution of the applications with components of functionality being carved out as per the new architecture and being delivered to production as they are completed. The successful candidate would be responsible for leading an application development team or teams through all stages of the development life cycle while also working closely with all other project stakeholders.

Area of Operations

Key Responsibility

Technology Projects working with cross functional teams to achieve project milestones within defined timelines and deliver high quality results .

- Assisting in planning , coordinating and managing IT projects from inception to completion under the supervision of Senior Project Manager.

- Meeting with business users, understanding the business requirement.

-Ensure Production support within TAT

Recruitment and Team Building

Developing assessment criteria, conducting interviews, guiding the development team, problem solving, setting clear goals and delivering through teams

Any Other Requirement:

·         Leadership skills with ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholders

·         Would be required to work with multiple projects / teams concurrently

·         Team building and Team working