Senior Project Manager

CO_SNFSL Apex Group Fiduciary Services; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Group is expanding and inviting applications for a Release Train Engineer to lead one or more project teams, shaping delivery cadence, governance, and continuous improvement. The PM role reports into the Portfolio Lead and supports planning, portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and compliance with Technology and Product partners.

You will drive planning, capacity, forecasting, and flow metrics, protect against overcommitment, and coach Lean- Agile practices across teams to deliver

Responsibilities

• Own alignment between work and value: ensure team goals and priorities visible and connected to business objectives.
• Coach the "why" of delivery: help the team stay focused on valuable business outcomes, not just tickets or tasks.
• Model outcome-focused planning: ensure the team understands what they're delivering and why it matters to stakeholders, leveraging strategic artifacts and partnering with product and product aligned roles (e.g. Tower leads, BAs).
• Lead sustainable planning: ensure the team only commits to work they can realistically deliver, based on past velocity and current context.
• Actively protect team capacity: buffer the team from external demands that would lead to overcommitment or churn.
• Support reliable forecasting: track and communicate metrics such as throughput, velocity, and predictability to aid team effectiveness and stakeholder confidence.
• Use flow data to drive improvement: use of data to surface WIP issues, blockers, and overcommitment patterns, and lead the team in resolving them.
• Champion readiness and discipline: ensure stories and features are well defined and understood before commitment. Holds themselves and others accountable to policies and escalates upwards where necessary.
• Own impediment management: proactively resolve delivery blockers and escalates when needed to protect and improve delivery.
• Balance assurance and autonomy: help the team meet governance requirements efficiently, preserving delivery focus.
• Lead team effectiveness efforts: assess team health, facilitate improvement conversations, and take ownership of follow-through.
• Create space for collaboration and learning: protect the team's time and mental bandwidth so they can reflect and prioritise improve activity.
• Coach Lean Agile behaviours: embed focus on value, flow

Job description

Functional Title: Project Manager Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

About Apex

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

As APEX FUND SERVICES is expanding, we are opening an exciting new opportunity. We are currently looking for suitable, motivated and team-oriented professional for the position of Release Train Engineer

Purpose of the Role

The primary purpose of the Project Manager role is to lead and develop one or more project teams to deliver value effectively and predictably. The PM is an accountable delivery leader, not just a coach or facilitator, who actively shapes team culture, fosters collective ownership, and drives continuous improvement. They take clear responsibility for team effectiveness, delivery success, and reliability. A core part of the role is leading the team to meet stakeholder expectations consistently by protecting their ability to forecast realistically, maintaining sustainable delivery pace, and driving measurable improvement in flow, collaboration, and outcomes.

The role leads the planning and scheduling of projects, change management, project metrics production and analysis within the team working with colleagues across Technology and Product to prioritorise delivery in line with strategic, regulatory and growth objectives.

The position reports into the Portfolio Lead and helps plan annual portfolios based on business needs, manage portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and compliance, and support the development and advocacy of Portfolio Operations delivery framework, develop standard project/program delivery methodologies to be used across all technology change delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Alignment & Value Delivery

Own alignment between work and value: ensure team goals and priorities visible and connected to business objectives.

Coach the "why" of delivery: help the team stay focused on valuable business outcomes, not just tickets or tasks.

Model outcome-focused planning: ensure the team understands what they're delivering and why it matters to stakeholders, leveraging strategic artifacts and partnering with product and product aligned roles (e.g. Tower leads, BAs).

Planning, Scheduling & Flow Optimisation

Lead sustainable planning: ensure the team only commits to work they can realistically deliver, based on past velocity and current context.

Actively protect team capacity: buffer the team from external demands that would lead to overcommitment or churn.

Support reliable forecasting: track and communicate metrics such as throughput, velocity, and predictability to aid team effectiveness and stakeholder confidence.

Use flow data to drive improvement: use of data to surface WIP issues, blockers, and overcommitment patterns, and lead the team in resolving them.

Delivery Governance, Quality & Compliance

Champion readiness and discipline: ensure stories and features are well defined and understood before commitment. Holds themselves and others accountable to policies and escalates upwards where necessary.

Own impediment management: proactively resolve delivery blockers and escalates when needed to protect and improve delivery.

Balance assurance and autonomy: help the team meet governance requirements efficiently, preserving delivery focus.

People Leadership & Capability Growth

Lead team effectiveness efforts: assess team health, facilitate improvement conversations, and take ownership of follow-through.

Create space for collaboration and learning: protect the team's time and mental bandwidth so they can reflect and prioritise improve activity.

Coach Lean Agile behaviours: embed focus on value, flow