Project Manager

Position: Project Lead/ Project Manager (Immediate Joiners Only from Delhi NCR Location)

People Management || Process Management || Project Management

Experience Level: Years

Location: Faridabad/ Noida/ Hybrid

Shift Timings: 10:00 to 7:00 PM

Background: Strong software development background preferred

Job Description

• Lead the overall delivery setup and execution, people and financials management for the assigned software services projects/ program work streams in order to realize defined business outcomes with mid-sized, globally distributed teams
• Partner with Agile leads, other delivery leads, clients and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best
• practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements
• Contribute to pre-sales and works with operations teams to ensure compliance
• Manage relationships &status reporting within the organization, with clients
• Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program
• People management responsibilities for team members, track leads, scrum masters and product owners
• Participate in Delivery Management and (or) Agile communities
• The Scrum Master is trained on practicing Scrum and helps a team adopt Scrum in order to deliver quality releases quickly to market
• Expertise with various Agile Methodologies –Scrum, Kanban etc.
• Expertise with various Agile Tools - Jira, Confluence etc. and ensuring adoption in a consistent manner.
• Act as a servant leader and shield the team from external interference and distractions to keep it in group flow
• Create self-organizing teams, build consensus and resolve conflict
• Responsible for the team to follow processes, establish and actively facilitate the cadence of all scrum ceremonies, and remove
• team impediments or escalate as per defined SLAs
• Ability to partner with the product owner and manage backlog - backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, ready groomed stories for next 3 iterations
• Responsible for Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burn down Charts, QA Metrics(Quality/Technical Debt; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure activities, Team working
• Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker) etc.
• Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level
• Articulate the overall project risk and risk mitigation plan and make it transparent to the relevant stakeholders
• Good to have a functional understanding of project and business value being delivered
• Keeps scrum artifacts updated and visible
• Knowledge of engineering best practices ( Refactoring, Clean code patterns, CI/CD – DevOps)

Must have Skills Sets

• Preferably from Development Background
• Proficiency with MS Office Suits or related software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to solve problems creatively
• Ability to work independently with little or no daily supervision
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline

Good have Skills Sets

• Diverse experience across more than one service offering such as application development and maintenance, application/
• product support, systems integration, product engineering, package implementation, project management consulting, etc.
• Certifications: CSM, PMP,Prince2 etc

About Damco:

We are a global technology company with more than two decades of core IT experience. Our differentiators are technological prowess with unwavering back-end support on a wide range of technologies and industry-leading platforms.

At Damco, we take pride in building innovative, efficient, and robust IT solutions for our clients. We match the client's business goals with our technology expertise and immaculate execution capabilities to solve issues that matter to the end-user.

Damco has developed hundreds of products and applications, redefined countless processes, built numerous technology teams and systems, and delivered significant financial results to customers from diverse verticals.

We believe in empowering our people to perform and grow by offering opportunities, learning, and inspiration—to 'act and accomplish'. If you are a self-starter looking for an open and collaborative work culture to excel in career, we are the place for you. Here is what you can expect from our work-culture.