Technical Project Manager (Noida, UP, India)

14-17 Years of experience in the IT industry in delivery roles; 5+ years on experience in program or LoB management with large, geographically distributed teams (onshore and offshore).Financial Service background must have .

• Strong technical background • Experience in financial service domain for 5+ years (preferably capital markets/ investment banking), with an IT consulting/ services firm. • Experience of setting up medium size delivery teams (25+ people) organized across one or more projects/ work streams. • Project or Program management experience across the full SDLC lifecycle involving different methodologies like agile, iterative, waterfall and hybrid. • Prior experience of managing delivery engagements with quality frameworks such as CMMI. • Experience across service offerings (e.g. application development, maintenance, re[1]engineering, migration, etc.), different pricing models (fixed price, fixed capacity, time and material, client manage etc.) and engagement models (partner/ vendor managed, co-managed and client managed). • Prior experience in managing demanding senior stakeholders with customers based in US and of Asia origin. • Must be consultative and solutions’ oriented; prior experience of structuring or defining solutions oriented delivery engagements and troubleshooting critical delivery issues. • Strong commercial acumen with high proficiency in effort/ cost estimation. • Very strong business communication, negotiation and conflict management skills. • Strong knowledge of project financials and IT services contracts. • “Hands on” delivery leadership experience on complex/ high risk projects. • Experience of driving pre-sales effort as the bid manager (i.e. large proposals and sales pitches) and mining accounts/ farming for opportunities in existing customer businesses. • Strong outcomes focused leadership skills with strong people focus. • Demonstrated ability to drive change and continuous improvement journeys across delivery excellence and margin improvement. • Prior experience of managing leads / PMs in a matrix organization. • Flexibility to need based, short term overseas travel. • Delivery background of technology complex projects especially in migrations and data practice.