Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities
• Project Planning: Develop and execute software project plans covering scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Project Leadership: Coordinate and lead software project teams, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and delegation of tasks.
• Delivery & P&L;: Monitor project progress and project P&L;, identify risks and issues, and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Stakeholder Management: Conduct regular project status meetings and provide stakeholders and clients with updates on milestones, deliverables, and risks.
• Client Management: Build strong client relationships, understand their needs and expectations, and ensure customer satisfaction throughout the software project lifecycle.
• People Leadership: Provide leadership, mentoring, guidance, motivation, and empowerment to software project team members and PMO professionals.
• Continuous Improvement: Conduct post-project evaluations, analyze project performance, identify improvement opportunities, and implement lessons learned in future projects.
• Decision Making: Demonstrate excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities to address delivery challenges and drive successful outcomes.
Required Skills, Certifications & Experience
• Project Management: Strong proficiency in software project management methodologies including PMBOK and Scrum.
• Project Tools: Hands-on proficiency with MPP and Jira.
• Certification: Valid PMP or PRINCE certification is mandatory.
• Technology: Solid understanding and strong hold of technology, including AI.
• Industry Experience: Minimum 10 years of project, program, or service delivery management experience within the technology industry.
• Domain Knowledge: Functional depth in the financial domain will be an added advantage.
• Leadership: Strong team leadership, stakeholder management, client management, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
Key Search Keywords
Delivery Head, Head of Delivery, Technology Delivery Head, Program Delivery Head, Project Delivery Head, Program Management, Project Management, Service Delivery, PMO Head, Software Delivery, IT Delivery, PMP, PRINCE, PMBOK, Scrum, Jira, MPP, AI, Technology Management, Project P&L;, Client Management, Stakeholder Management, Financial Domain.
Ideal Candidate Profile
A senior technology delivery leader with 13–15 years of delivery experience and at least 10 years in project/program/service delivery management. The candidate should have strong software project delivery expertise, mandatory PMP or PRINCE certification, proven people and client leadership skills, and a solid understanding of modern technology including AI. Financial-domain experience is preferred.

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