Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering / Project Management or equivalent.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience of 9+ years and in leading a team and handling software and solutions in project management.

Job Function:

• Understands the architecture, systems, development methods, and disciplines associated with the defined projects, applies the knowledge to deliverables, and leverages it to accelerate project completion.
• Ability to work in virtual team and coordinate with different technical teams and stakeholders.
• Act as the technical project manager with overall responsibility for the management, performance and completion of new product development projects
• Assisting I.T. Project Manager to develop documentation, software work plans, and keep documentation up to date
• Working with the project management office to utilize Concur’s standard project management and agile methodologies
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and assist I.T. Project manager in estimating completion dates and resource allocation
• Proficiency in decision and issue Management, Software risk management, Software Engineering management, and Software Engineering process
• Manage schedule, costs, quality, issue & risk management, communications, and other PMI project management functions
• Provides day-to-day guidance and oversight of team activities; actively works to recognize performance

Experience:

• Create project plans, scope documents, schedules and forecasts. Provide timely communication on the impact of changes and decisions.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Work with the management to identify and address any issues that may impact the project.
• Resolves project issues, mitigates risks, and manages scope change requests for all development sprints.
• Act on items identified in retrospectives. Implement process improvements in future sprints for continuous improvement

• Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives.
• Scope estimation, planning, time management, scheduling, project costing, and budget management
• Ensures that the project follows standardization according to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) definitions and other standards
• Project change management
• Software IT project manager activities in global, remote organization
• Knowledge of process improvement
• Evaluating the project team in order to support Line Managers in their employee evaluation
• Providing the stakeholders with transparent, accurate and regular information regarding the status of committed project deliveries

Skills:

• PMP certification.
• Working knowledge and understanding of the basic principles, theories, concepts, and practices in the applicable area of software engineering/technical specialization
• Professional attitude, with strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage deliverables in a timely fashion proven ability to meet deadlines
• Knowledge in MS Project, and also good communication and presentation skills
• Ability to build strong working relationships with key individuals in other groups and areas
• Good judgment with the ability to make timely and sound decisions
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively convey technical test results to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work in virtual team and coordinate different technical teams and stakeholders (good communication skills)