Project Manager - INTEGRATION

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre seeks an Integration Project Manager to deliver infrastructure solutions according to architect specifications and GTS norms. You will coordinate with development teams and various support groups, onboarding with increasing complexity and driving go-live readiness across business units.

You will analyze requirements, commit to deadlines, and act as a bridge between GTS technical teams and business stakeholders, using automation where possible and ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience in managing projects, ideally in IT services or infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Deliver infrastructure solutions adhering to GTS norms and architects' specs
• Coordinate with application development teams and multiple support groups
• Onboard and progressively handle increasingly complex tasks
• Work with project teams from various business units to drive go-live
• Analyze requirements and commit to deadlines
• Interface between GTS technical teams, PMs, architects and business-side managers
• Handle infrastructure provisioning using automation or service-desk tickets
• Verify systems on Linux/Windows/AIX and perform DR tests before go-live
• Advise clients on milestones and readiness steps
• Document servers and components delivered in the tracking system
• Participate in cost and time estimation using internal tools

Skills

Project management

Client relationship

Communication

Agile

Technical awareness

Job description

Responsibilities

• The Integration Project Manager is charged with the delivery of the infrastructure solution as specified by the architects with respect to GTS norms
• It’s a unique mix of IT service management, client relationship and technical skills in a constantly transforming environment
• He manages multiple projects in parallel together with the application development teams
• For the delivery, he collaborates with and orchestrates the contributors from different support teams (system engineers, network administrators, backup operators, monitoring, database administrators, middleware specialists, security teams, technical experts)
• After onboarding to our company and processes, your tasks will start at a simple and more administrative level and we’ll increase gradually in complexity and diversity
• Work together with project implementation teams from various business units to build the required infrastructure and solve any integration problem that could arise until project goes live
• Analyze and challenge the requirements and commit on agreed deadlines
• Act as an interface between GTS technical teams, Solution Project Manager, architects, consultants, development teams and project managers charged to build the solution from the business side
• Infrastructure provisioning and creation using automation tools or by sending tickets to service desk for special cases. Examples: servers creation and basic configuration, installation of software components part of the GTS catalog by using automation tools or by creating well documented tickets to appropriate technical team
• Use of basic technical and networking skills (on Linux, Windows, AIX, etc.) to verify that installed items are working, versions are correct Perform Disaster Recovery tests before applications go live
• Advise clients on the steps to follow in order to overcome all procedural milestones before the go live
• Create project skeleton and fill-in the internal project tracking application with information about the servers and components delivered
• Involved in the cost and time estimation process using internal tools

Responsibilities

• The Integration Project Manager is charged with the delivery of the infrastructure solution as specified by the architects with respect to GTS norms
• It’s a unique mix of IT service management, client relationship and technical skills in a constantly transforming environment
• He manages multiple projects in parallel together with the application development teams
• For the delivery, he collaborates with and orchestrates the contributors from different support teams (system engineers, network administrators, backup operators, monitoring, database administrators, middleware specialists, security teams, technical experts)
• After onboarding to our company and processes, your tasks will start at a simple and more administrative level and we’ll increase gradually in complexity and diversity
• Work together with project implementation teams from various business units to build the required infrastructure and solve any integration problem that could arise until project goes live
• Analyze and challenge the requirements and commit on agreed deadlines
• Act as an interface between GTS technical teams, Solution Project Manager, architects, consultants, development teams and project managers charged to build the solution from the business side
• Infrastructure provisioning and creation using automation tools or by sending tickets to service desk for special cases. Examples: servers creation and basic configuration, installation of software components part of the GTS catalog by using automation tools or by creating well documented tickets to appropriate technical team
• Use of basic technical and networking skills (on Linux, Windows, AIX, etc.) to verify that installed items are working, versions are correct Perform Disaster Recovery tests before applications go live
• Advise clients on the steps to follow in order to overcome all procedural milestones before the go live
• Create project skeleton and fill-in the internal project tracking application with information about the servers and components delivered
• Involved in the cost and time estimation process using internal tools

Required

Profile required

• Areas of your interest should be related to project management, hardware infrastructure, enterprise architectures, software development/deployment/integration, IT Service Management, cloud automation, virtualization
• 1-5 years experience in project management, agile mindset
• Basic technical skills in multiple areas (system administration, networking, virtualization, web servers, load balancers, databases, middleware, security, etc), application deployment lifecycle
• Able to understand technical issues and identity the right person who could provide help
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact daily with both clients and technical contributors
• Able to work in parallel on several projects (reaching 7-10 projects) and following up multiple items on different statuses
• Proactively identify problems, anticipate obstacles and push things forward to deliver the expected level of service to our clients
• Good level of French and English in order to communicate with internal clients from various business areas (located in Paris, Bangalore and Bucharest)
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Curious, ambitious, self-motivated, adaptable
• Excellent at working both in a team and individually
• Methodical approach to problem solving, rigurosity
• Strong attention to detail
• Autonomy, proactivity, continuous learning

Why join us

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