Senior Technical Project Manager

1 week ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Kantar Full time ₹ 6,00,000 - ₹ 18,00,000 per year

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Job Details

We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving efficiency and collaboration across engineering teams. Your contributions will ensure the seamless delivery of projects that align with our organisation's goals, directly shaping the success of our product offerings.

You will oversee daily project operations, facilitating sprints, managing dependencies, and resolving blockers to keep teams on track. By liaising with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders, you'll ensure clarity and alignment on priorities and objectives. This role sits at the intersection of product and engineering, acting as a bridge to foster communication and collaboration Your work will enhance team productivity, improve delivery practices, and ensure stakeholders are informed and engaged, ultimately impacting the business at a strategic level

Job Goals

  • Drive the successful execution of projects across cross-functional teams, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with organisational goals.
  • Facilitate core agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming to foster team collaboration and efficiency.
  • Resolve blockers and manage dependencies to maintain momentum across teams and ensure seamless delivery.
  • Enhance transparency by maintaining clear documentation, reporting project updates, and communicating risks effectively to stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with product owners and engineering leads to refine priorities, scope tasks, and improve delivery practices for continuous growth.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

  • Strong understanding and practical application of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including experience facilitating core ceremonies across multiple teams, with at least 8 to 10 years of experience in a similar role.
  • Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, ADO, or similar platforms.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies and resolve blockers in cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project delivery.
  • Familiarity with modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, version control systems, APIs, and cloud-native environments.
  • Ability to maintain clear and detailed project documentation, ensuring alignment on priorities and objectives among diverse stakeholders.

Bonus points for:

  • Technical background as a developer, QA engineer, or systems analyst.
  • Experience working with DevOps teams or infrastructure-focused initiatives.
  • Experience in a SaaS, data-driven, or analytics-heavy product environment.
  • Familiarity with compliance or security-oriented project management.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You'll be joining our technology team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. We're undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernizing all our tech systems, we can respond our clients' needs faster and more efficiently – and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited ("Kantar"). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

Location

Bangalore, Prestige Technology ParkIndia

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.


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