Java Technical Project Manager

Position Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Project Manager with a strong background in JAVA development to lead our Hobart Chennai project. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of software development methodologies, project management best practices, and JAVA technologies. The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for managing the entire SDLC development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, and will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery. Run technical projects in the vertical which will include providing direction, project planning and tracking, reporting. Unblock technical challenges. Bring oversight and ownership. Work in globally distributed setup as a first among equals in the technology space.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Lead software development projects from inception to deployment, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Owner of technical projects including planning, tracking and implementation.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, business analysts, and stakeholders, to ensure that project requirements are clearly defined and understood.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets, and track progress against these plans.
• Identify and manage project risks and issues, and develop contingency plans as needed.
• Ensure that project deliverables meet the required quality standards, and that all project documentation is complete and up-to-date.
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management, and provide regular project status reports.
• Mentor and coach team members and provide guidance and support as needed.
• Capacity planning, Leave planning, Recruitment, Successor planning.
• Leading scrum team.
• Performance assessment of team members
• Stay up-to-date with the latest JAVA technologies and development methodologies, and apply this knowledge to improve project delivery.
• Propose / Review/ Challenge Application Architecture and Design.
• Lead automation and guide teams to align with shift left and shift right strategy by encouraging a mindset for automation first and reduce recursive manual efforts
• Hands on and lead by example.
• Resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Keep up to date with latest technologies, trends and provide inputs, expertise and recommendations.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards innovation; suggest new practices for efficiency improvement.
• Upskilling of members in the vertical.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to self-manage.
• Ability to prioritize and meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to communicate his/her ideas to the team and management.
• Inspire commitment of team members to deliver.
• Resourceful to quickly understand complexities involved and provide the way forward.
• Take ownership of the complex and challenging topics and find solutions.
• Strong knowledge about design patterns and development principles.
• Strong hands-on experience Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework, Spring Boot, Angular, PL\SQL or Oracle
• Strong hands-on knowledge on backend technologies
• Experience on Kubernetes, Microservices, Distributed Databases
• Practical experience on scalability, reliability, and stability of the application
• Architecturally enhancing / Re-designing applications which are already live.
• Experience of working with build tools like Maven & DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube.
• Strong experience of Agile, Scrum, DevOps.
• Development experience of MVC Architecture based web applications, including creation of Web Services (RESTful APIs/ SOAP Services).
• Ability & willingness to learn & work on diverse technologies (languages, frameworks, and tools).
• Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.

Nice to have Skills:

Worked in the area of Product Development and complex technical projects.

• Knowledge/experience on Dynatrace.

Knowledge/experience on No SQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), Kafka.

• Some exposure to Caching technologies like Redis or Apache Ignite.
• Exposure to Client Management or financial domain.
• Industry related certifications e.g. TOGAF