• Posted 539 Days ago
• Remote
• 1
• 7-10 years

Description

Works closely with the senior management in release planning, preparation, validation, post-release monitoring, and ongoing monitoring

Piramal Foundation’s vision is to transform Health, Education, Water and social sector ecosystems through partnerships, high impact solutions and thought leadership. We have a presence in 27 Indian states and 2 Union Territories.

Our approach to address these deep-rooted barriers:

 

• Partnerships approach to draw additional resources, a vast pool of diverse expertise, and innovations to tackle a social sector problem at scale
• Platform approach to influence systemic transformation through an alliance of partners for “scalable learning” by leveraging a pool of diverse resources to address a single problem with speed

 

Digital Bharat Collaborative (DBC), a part of Piramal Foundation, supports the government to transform the public healthcare system by building a robust digital delivery platform that ensures availability and accessibility of quality healthcare for all. Through this, we seek to enhance experiences of citizens in accessing government health services at the last mile.

This role will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

• Works closely with the senior management in release planning, preparation, validation, post-release monitoring, and ongoing monitoring
• Maintains accurate program estimates, timelines, project plans, and status reports.
• Possesses expert technical understanding of IT project management methodologies, monitoring and management tools, as well as deployment processes and tools.
• Possesses high level understanding in the areas of web application programming, content management systems, API, databases, and system design.
• Provides process improvement recommendations based on best practices and industry standards
• Resolves conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies.
• Is responsible for the development of standards and processes for operations that proactively prevent problems from occurring
• Ensure resource availability and allocation and develops a detailed project plan to track progress.
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs.
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Manages and appropriately escalates delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated to the product development initiatives
• Implement Agile methodologies and utilize project management tools like JIRA to plan, track, and manage project tasks effectively.
• Employ best practices in risk management and issue resolution, utilizing tools such as risk registers and issue logs to ensure timely mitigation and resolution of project challenges.

Good to have:

• PMP/CSM certification

Experience required:

• 7-10 years of experience in managing IT/Software development projects

 

Essential Qualifications

• Sc. (IT)/BTech /B. E /MTech/M. E/MCA/M.Sc.(IT)/ MBA (IT)

 

Essential Skills:

• Enhance department and organization reputation by taking ownership of accomplishing new and diverse requests, and proactively exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Demonstrate proficiency in current open-source web technologies and stay updated on upcoming web technologies.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and seamlessly transition between them as necessary.
• Coordinate internal resources and third-party vendors to ensure flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure timely delivery of all projects within scope and budget.
• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensure technical feasibility.
• Assign and oversee the work of technical personnel, ensuring optimal application development and deployment, and implement quality control and review systems throughout the processes.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions.
• Evaluate technological choices (network/hardware-related and technology/code-related) by evaluating providers and providing comprehensive evaluations of each solution including ROI assessments, implications, limitations, and opportunities.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups of developers, product owners, and subject matter experts.
• Exercise delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing both routine and complex technical elements of technical operations.
• Act as an advocate for security and performance standards within the organization.
• Excellent proficiency in project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and project management principles.
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Smartsheets, Trello, or Asana.
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git and knowledge of web technologies

Knowledge

• Expertise – we strive for a deeper understanding of our domain
• Innovation – we aspire to do things creatively

Action

• Entrepreneurship – we are empowered to act decisively and create value
• Integrity – we are consistent in our thoughts, speech and action

Care

• Trusteeship – we protect the interests of our customers, community, employees, partners and shareholders
• Humility – we aspire to be the best, yet strive to be humble