Project - Associate Manager

Iris Software Inc.; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Financial support

Health benefits

Personalized employee experience

Job summary

Iris Software Inc. is seeking a Project Manager in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh. The role requires leading software development projects independently, ensuring customer satisfaction and managing project scope.

Ideal candidates have 10 to 14 years of IT experience, at least 2-5 years in project management using Agile-Scrum methodologies, and excellent communication skills. The position offers world-class benefits for a holistic growth experience.

Qualifications

• 10 to 14 years of experience in IT with 2-5 years of Project management experience.
• Experience in project management using Agile-Scrum methodologies.
• Strong skills in stakeholder management and problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead project independently including software development and maintenance.
• Manage project scope, customer relationships, and profitability.
• Develop statements of work for new projects.

Skills

Agile-Scrum methodologies

Project management

JIRA

ServiceNow

Microsoft Project

Communication skills

Tools

SonarQube

Jenkins

TFS

Job description

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead project independently (Fixed and T&M) in the area of software development, maintenance and support including AMS.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for customer satisfaction, contract fulfilment and project profitability.
• Manage scope of the project/services, incident/ticket trends during its execution including change requests.
• Communication with stakeholders during the life of the project.
• Perform to organization norms on metrics for development and AMS projects.
• Manage relationships with clients.
• Develop statements of work (SOWs) for new projects.
• Identify and manage risk during the project life.
• Create a motivated high-performance team.
• Give formal and periodic feedback to individual team members.
• Ensure software engineering guidelines and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Qualifications - External

• 10 to 14 years of experience in IT with 2-5 years of Project management experience.
• Experience in project management for development projects using Agile-Scrum methodologies, estimation, conducting various scrum ceremonies like Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Experience in project management for AMS projects, tracking trends, proactively analysing the volume, repeatable tickets, perform RCA and implement measures to reduce repeatable issues, create and maintain rosters and help team to remove impediments by finding the right resources/tools/process/technology to remove the impediment.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of various performance metrics for both development and AMS projects.
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools: JIRA, ServiceNow, Greenhopper, TFS, or equivalent, Microsoft Project, VSS, SonarQube, Fisheye, Jenkins, and all Office Tools.
• Ability to proactively call out issues and risks and provide solutions.
• Consultative & solution-oriented—ability to propose design and development approach.
• Understand and appreciate solution frameworks and architectures.
• Prefer developer background, tech-savvy.
• Support presales initiatives in estimation.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.

Others

• Ability to work in continuous integration setup.
• Demonstrates good analysis, collaboration, and problem solving.
• Ability to multi-task and juggle competing priorities.
• Quick learner, innovative, proactive, flexible, and adaptable.
• Short term travel-ready and travel willingness.

Mandatory Competencies

• Delivery Management - Portfolio Management - Forecasting
• Delivery Management - Portfolio Management - Margins and Revenue
• Soft Skills / Leadership skills - Soft Skills / Leadership skills - Estimations
• Administration - Planning, Organizing, Scheduling and Monitoring
• Tech - Metrics and Data Driven Decision Making
• Stakeholder Management
• Tech - Risk Management
• Data & AI - GEN AI - Advanced GenAI & Agentic Framework Concepts
• Beh - Communication and collaboration

Perks and Benefits for Irisians

Iris provides world-class benefits for a personalized employee experience. These benefits are designed to support financial, health, and well-being needs of Irisians for a holistic professional and personal growth.