Job Description
IntroductionAt IBM India Systems Development Lab, our project managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall schedule, delivery, execution, risk management and overall tracking. Our stakeholders rely on timely and efficient status reporting and milestone tracking. As a project manager, you will drive the project schedule and plan, metric definitions and performance tracking. In addition, you will be expected to be people manager for a squad of 6-8 developers.
Your Role and Responsibilities - You will be responsible for leading/Managing a team of highly talented individuals for developing IBM PowerVC product ( IaaS Offering for IBM Power Systems)
- Lead 15+ technical resources covering various aspects of product development.
- Collaborate closely with other peer teams globally
- Functional Management ownership of PowerVC application components design , development, integration and delivery.
- Focus on technical supervision, project management, organizational development
- Ensure talent/skills development and performance management.
- Manage, coordinate and develop activities related to Project *Management such as planning, kick off, management, tracking and closure of projects.
- Manage customer-facing project milestones, deliverables, and communication
- Provides cross-functional coordination and team communications
- Provide management level visibility and reporting on project status and risk
- Serve as point of contact for project associated status and information
- Utilize Operation information systems and update them regularly.
- Effectively use project management tools (spreadsheets, dashboards, etc)
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Excellent people management & project management skills and ability to provide technical guidance to a team of experienced professionals
- 10+ years of relevant experience of Agile development.
- Experience of 3+ years in leading/managing a team of full stack developers.
- Strong fundamentals in cloud backed IaaS application development using Python & OpenStack
- Able to handle multiple scrum teams and scrum of scrums.
- Excellent people management and leadership skills
- Good communication, articulation & presentation skills
- Experience on handling Client interactions & interfacing”
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- 5+ years of leading and mentoring teams
- System management, virtualization & Cloud experience.
- OpenStack experience