Project Manager

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from a college/university or its equivalent qualification in Information Technology.
• Must have minimum 3 years of experience as a Project Manager.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with heavy usage of Project Management and Stakeholder Management skills.
• Minimum of 3 years of solid experience in software implementation/development.
• Has at least 5 years of experience in managing 3rd parties, vendors and/or service providers.
• Strong system implementation background.
• Experience in banking/credit card operations environment required.
• Knowledge of application design, application integration principles and straight through processes.
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of waterfall, agile and other project management methodologies.
• Must have experience with Agile Frameworks (Lean/Kanban/Scrum). (Non negotiable)
• Must have experience with Scrum process.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs project management responsibilities in either waterfall and agile methodology
• Prepares/creates and maintains Project Plan, Work Plan and securing the necessary approval as applicable.
• Prepares/creates Project Status Report and reporting the same in terms of delivery of schedule, quality and scope.
• Tracks Project budget and costs as applicable.
• Ensures documentation of all risks and issues associated with the Project, working with the Project Team to facilitate resolution and timely escalation as deemed necessary.
• Participates and facilitates in relevant meetings, as required.
• Ensures compliance with internal and external policies, security and legal regulatory requirements as applicable. Supports audit exercises when needed.
• Facilitates post-implementation or similar activity and prepares Close-Out Report as applicable
• Ensures of completion of required documents at the end of the project • Manages the Scrum process with the coordination of Scrum Team in Agile methodology.
• Ensures that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices and rules.
• Acts as a servant-leader for the Scrum Team, as applicable.
• Facilitates Scrum events (e.g. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) as needed and ensures that they are conducted as scheduled, as applicable.
• Performs other related functions that may be assigned from time to time.