Position: Project Manager
Location: Mumbai
Work Mode: WFO
Years of Experience: 7-9 years
Qualifications bachelor's degree in science / mathematics / Statistics / Commerce / Total Quality Mgmt
Job Description:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Migration, Cloud Modernization, Application Development, Data Engineering, Analytics and AI/ML projects, ensuring successful delivery within agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality.
- Manage the complete project lifecycle including Discovery, Requirement Gathering, Solution Design, Development, Infrastructure Setup, Testing, Migration, Cutover, Go-Live, Hypercare and Project Closure.
- Manage migration of workloads across Public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) as well as Private Cloud environments.
- Prepare detailed project plans, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), resource plans and delivery schedules while monitoring project execution against defined milestones.
- Establish project governance frameworks including RAID management, change management, dependency tracking, milestone reviews and executive reporting.
- Own project scope, identify scope changes proactively, assess commercial impact and manage change requests through defined governance processes.
- Drive effective stakeholder management across customer leadership, technical teams, architects, vendors and internal management to ensure alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
- Conduct regular project governance meetings, status reviews, steering committee meetings and executive updates with customers.
- Prepare project documentation including Project Charters, Project Plans, Weekly Status Reports, Minutes of Meeting, Risk Registers, Release Plans, Cutover Plans and Closure Reports.
- Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, technical dependencies and customer escalations proactively, driving mitigation plans to ensure successful project delivery.
- Manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously while maintaining delivery quality and customer satisfaction.
- Coordinate with Solution Architects, Cloud Architects, Application Development Teams, Data Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Infrastructure Teams, Security Teams and Customer Stakeholders.
- Support project estimation, effort planning, resource forecasting and project transition activities during project initiation.
- Monitor project financials including milestone-based billing readiness, resource utilization, delivery progress and budget adherence.
- Ensure adherence to organizational delivery processes, quality standards and project governance frameworks.
Required Skill Set and Experience:
- Experience: 7–9 years in IT Project Management with at least 3 years managing Cloud Infrastructure or Cloud Migration projects.
- Proven experience managing multiple enterprise cloud transformation projects simultaneously.
- Experience delivering projects using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Migration, Application Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Data Engineering and AI/ML project delivery methodologies.
- Experience managing Fixed Price, Time & Material and Managed Services engagements.
- Good understanding of AWS Cloud services and cloud architecture concepts.
- Knowledge of Cloud Migration methodologies, Landing Zone concepts, Disaster Recovery, Security and Infrastructure deployment.
- Experience delivering enterprise Application Development, Data Engineering, Data Analytics or AI/ML implementation projects will be an added advantage.
- Strong expertise in Project Planning, Scheduling, WBS preparation, Resource Planning and Dependency Management.
- Proven experience managing cross-functional project teams comprising 10–30 resources across Infrastructure, Development, Data, QA, DevOps and Business functions.
- Experience managing medium to large enterprise projects with project values ranging from USD 50K to USD 150K or equivalent, or managing multiple concurrent engagements.
- Experience in RAID Management, Change Management, Scope Management and Project Governance.
- Experience in customer-facing delivery with the ability to independently manage project governance and executive stakeholder communication.
- Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies with practical Scrum exposure.
- Hands-on experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Zoho Projects, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Excellent documentation, reporting and presentation skills.
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Soft Skills:
- Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written).
- Good documentation skills.
- Should have a great customer handling skill.
- Able to handle unforeseen situations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder and customer relationship management.
- Ability to manage executive-level discussions and customer escalations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent planning, prioritization and organizational skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-project environment.
- Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.
- Effective negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making skills.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive accountability.
High level of professionalism and customer-centric approach.
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Certifications
- PRINCE2 Practitioner/Foundation
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent
