Key Responsibilities
- Accountable for end-to-end delivery of CEW from pre-project to post go live support
- Providing technical leadership and guidance to team
- Partnering with business stakeholders, architects to understand business requirements and technical design
- Plan, manage, track delivery through a combination of agile tools and traditional planning tools where required to ensure overall delivery across all streams are sequenced and tracked
- Ensure risks are pro-actively managed and highlighted in right forums to seek support for resolution
- Deliver project in guidance and adherence to Bank’s software delivery, security, release management standard & guidelines.
- Ensure all deliverables, checkpoints are planned and delivered to meet the bank’s standards and quality gates
- Pro-active planning on development dependencies and plan and track them to closure
- Ensure quality standards are built into the development phase with a quality first approach
- Measure and monitor progress and quality using data-oriented approach
- Participate in scrum of scrums and cross stream meetings to discuss, highlight dependencies across systems.
- Conduct regular checkpoints (daily scrum, weekly project meetings) and track actions to closure
- Put in change management processes to manage and deliver agreed business outcomes
- During test phases, actively drive defect fixes to meet SLA’s. measure and manage defect density, re-open rates
- Promote a culture of inclusiveness and have active participation from the team during team meetings and standups.
- identify areas of improvement from each sprint and work towards continuous improvement to improve sprint velocity and quality
- Leading and contributing to cross-team improvement initiatives relating to agile methods, CI/CD tools, people, architecture, project management and governance, including further adoption and improvements to the Bank’s System Development Methodology (SDM)
Key Requirements
- At least 10 yrs experience with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects
- Should have had at least 5 years of experience in managing large scale projects & building applications from scratch using API’s and micro services and leading multiple streams
- Strong project / program management skills
- Should have prior experience in managing virtual teams in onsite/offshore model
- Should have a development background and the right level of experience and expertise to coach and design, plan and deliver complex applications
- Ability to work under pressure and strict deadlines
- Own overall delivery and drive team’s velocity
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Go-getter
- Prior experience in Banking applications (customer facing – client onboarding or middleware payment processing systems) is a plus
