Project Manager

Capco; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead cross-functional delivery across multiple pods and geographies in the banking and financial services sector.

You will align product owners, IT DevOps teams, and vendors to meet sprint milestones and roadmap goals, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure quality delivery through robust planning, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience managing large cross-functional multi-geo projects.
• Familiar with Offshore–Onshore model.
• Skilled in risk and issue management.
• Expertise in Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean methodologies.
• Vendor / 3rd party management.
• Strong relationship and networking skills.
• Excellent 360-degree influencing and negotiation.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple work threads in fast-paced environments.
• Experience with international resources and dispersed teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery with Product Owners and IT DevOps to achieve Sprint and Roadmap milestone goals.
• Manage dependencies and risks across multi-team pods.
• Provide regular project status reporting against sprint commitments and longer-term milestones.
• Create and own overall project plans, including short-term and long-range planning.
• Oversee JIRA hygiene and updates.
• Coordinate activities across Pods for cross-pod feature delivery.
• Ensure inputs into delivery are exhaustive and signed off as EPICs and user/technical stories.
• Align pods to backlog priorities and manage capacity.
• Ensure estimates account for resource capacity and constraints.
• Improve quality and lead time to deploy changes.
• Coordinate with vendors in a vendor environment.

Skills

Waterfall

Agile

Scrum

DevOps

Lean methodologies

Vendor management

Relationship management

Influencing

Documentation

Communication

International experience

Job description

“Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by Avtar & Seramount. With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients across banking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery.

WHY JOIN CAPCO?

You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry.

MAKE AN IMPACT

Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services.

#BEYOURSELFATWORK

Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity.

CAREER ADVANCEMENT

With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage.

Role Description

• Working with Product Owners and IT DevOps pod teams, to help coordinate delivery activity to ensure that Sprint & Roadmap milestone goals are achieved
• Managing project (multi team / pod) dependencies and risks
• Provision of regular Project status reporting – against shorter term Sprint commitments and longer term milestone roadmap indicative estimates
• Creation and ownership of the overall Project Plan(s). Including: Short-term Scrum planning and Forward window longer-range planning (regular refresh and tracking of critical path and roadmap)
• Oversight of JIRA updates and ensuring JIRA hygiene
• Coordinating activities across Pods (where feature deliverables involve multiple cross-pod interaction)
• Collaboration with Product Owners and BA Lead / BAs to ensure that all inputs into the delivery teams are fit-for-purpose e.g. requirements are exhaustive & signed off and work is de-constructed and translated into suitable EPICs and user & technical stories (and factor in traceable Test criteria / scenarios / data from the outset)
• Collaboration with Product Owners, BA Lead / BAs & IT Pod Leads to ensure that pods are aligned to backlog priorities and that resource capacity is managed / optimised and factored into short-term Sprint commitments and longer-term milestone roadmap indicative estimates
• Collaboration with Pod Leads to ensure that estimates are fit-for-purpose and take into account all main considerations e.g. resource capacity, dependency constraints etc
• Working with product owner & team, to ensure that quality and lead time to deploy changes is continuously improving
• Working in a vendor environment. Partnering, over-seeing and coordinating vendor activity.

**Solid knowledge and experience of the following:- **

• Expertise with Waterfall, Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in Product Development and delivery organization
• Thorough understanding of Project management Practices
• Multiple years of Project Management experience in both Waterfall and Agile environments
• Scrum master background and/or exposure
• Experience of large projects (50+ people)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:-

• Overall experience in 15+ years which includes managing large, cross functional, multi geography projects
• Candidate should be familiar with the Offshore – Onshore model
• Should be adept at managing Risk and Issues.
• Expertise in Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean methodologies
• Vendor / 3rd party management
• Relationship management (both internal and external) and networking skills.
• Excellent 360 degree influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment with proven ability to handle multiple work threads at one time
• International experience or experience of dealing with international resources (project team and user base will be dispersed across multiple locations)
• Ability to work effectively to strict timelines and deadlines.
• Ability to work with Technology teams and business / Operations / Change