Senior Principal Consultant – Project Manager

Genpact (NYSE: G) is a global professional services and solutions firm delivering outcomes that shape the future. Our 125,000+ people across 30+ countries are driven by our innate curiosity, entrepreneurial agility, and desire to create lasting value for clients. Powered by our purpose – the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people – we serve and transform leading enterprises, including the Fortune Global 500, with our deep business and industry knowledge, digital operations services, and expertise in data, technology, and AI. Inviting applications for the role of Senior Principal Consultant – Project ManagerYour demonstrated ability to consistently achieve this while continuing to improve your knowledge and skills will define success for your role. You will exercise independent judgement within defined policies and procedures to determine appropriate action as well as lead a small team to an outcome while being a role model for your team. Responsibilities• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress & on-time schedule, within scope and budget, ensure resource availability and allocation. • Manage project scope, project schedule and project costs• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, proactively prioritize activities within the project, manage customer expectations, tracking dependencies and action items, and organizing the team’s effort and effectiveness.• Report and escalate project risks/issues to management as needed• Perform risk management exercises using appropriate tools to minimize project risks & perform risk mitigation analysis and provide workaround solutions• Effectively manage the team of application developers, analysts, testers system changes. Good Stakeholder management• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation• Become a change agent ensuring lean principles and best practices are followed.• Be a thought leader, understand the latest trends and capabilities to implement modern and successful solutions.• Communicate and Collaborate effectively with global customers, external vendors and internal team to drive results.• Contributing to your BU/Practice byo Documenting your learnings from the current work and engaging in the external tech community by writing blogs, contributing in Github, Stack overflow, meetups/conferences etc.o Keep updated on the latest technologies with technology trainings and certificationso Actively participate in organization-level activities and events related to learning, formal training, interviewing, and special projects as assigned.Qualifications we seek in youMinimum Qualifications / Skills• overall experience required and experience as a project manager/scrum master. • Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams (2-3 members in each scrum team) with a focus on guiding the teams.• Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint reviews, grooming, tasking, estimating, and agile release planning• Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution• Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices• Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, leadership visibility, and appropriate prioritization, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution • Excellent presentation and communication skills• Good to have BA background – o Experience in managing requirement workshops, user story creations, and scenario use case definitions.o Understanding of software development life cycle, Relational databases, UX design etc.o Familiarity with Web app and mobile app development process.o Experience in process flow, data flow diagrams, user acceptance testing, user training documentation.Preferred Qualifications/ Skills• overall experience required and experience as a project manager/scrum master.• Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams (2-3 members in each scrum team) with a focus on guiding the teams.• Facilitate agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint reviews, grooming, tasking, estimating, and agile release planning• Must be willing and able to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution• Assist the team with implementing effective agile disciplinary practices• Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, leadership visibility, appropriate prioritization, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution • Excellent presentation and communication skills• Good to have BA background – o Experience in managing requirement workshops, user story creations, scenario use case definitions.o Understanding of software development life cycle, Relational databases, UX design etc.o Familiarity with Web app and mobile app development process.o Experience in process flow, data flow diagrams, user acceptance testing, user training documentation.