Title: Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Achieve defined project milestones, analyze and assess project risks, and plan and control risk-related measures.

• Lead projects through all PLM phases, including setup, planning, driving, and controlling execution. Ensure overall project monitoring, reporting, and timely feedback with all stakeholders.

• Manage change requests regarding project goals (schedule, cost, content, and quality).

• Report project status to management and other stakeholders.

• Identify and assign project team (with Line Manager), set goals, and build a cohesive team. Ensure required project working environment and setup, including procurement of equipment and relevant software tools.

• Identify opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency with lower costs for the customer. Ensure optimized quality processes and encourage team participation in process improvements.

• Consolidate and mitigate risks from multiple projects and manage risks proactively. Ensure compliance with partners and organizational processes.

• Set clear expectations of business integrity as per organizational guidelines and support awareness, intervention, and reporting of non-compliant behavior.

• Represent the project in internal and external audits.

• Demonstrate good organizational skills and lead multiple projects with multiple teams simultaneously.

• Coordinate with Product Owners for backlog management, concept grooming, and continuous delivery of features. Coordinate with Product Manager Owners for product roadmap, priorities, end-user footprint, escalations, and usage dashboards.

• Coordinate with Architects for architecture backlog management, prototypes, and technical grooming.

• Guide and facilitate sprint ceremonies to consistently achieve sprint goals (planning, reviews, retrospectives, demos, daily stand-ups, and stakeholder meetings).

• Protect the scrum team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

• Define, monitor, and control project and product metrics to meet goals (e.g., sprint/release burn down, velocity, defects).

• Ensure projects meet deadlines.

• Maintain a live project risk register and design mitigation and contingency plans.

• Oversee all project documentation and ensure documentation quality is maintained.

• Guide the team with Agile/Lean principles and practices (e.g., thin slicing, reduce waste, value stream mapping, structured problem solving) to deliver value frequently and regularly to customers.

• Coach, mentor, and foster a culture of transparency, continual improvement, and self-organization within the team.

• Build trust and create a positive environment by empowerment, facilitating discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution with an emphasis on problem-solving.

• Ensure sprint deliverables adhere to quality and regulatory guidelines.

• Exposure to medical domain processes and practices.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in Software Development & Project Management with successful demonstration of job-specific and key responsibilities.

• Minimum of 5 years of successful project management of software development projects.

• Knowledge of requirements engineering and backlog management.

• Experience in Conflict Management, Escalation Management, Leadership, and Management Methods.

• Proficiency in project management tools and techniques (e.g., Excel, Azure DevOps for backlog management, WBS, Estimation techniques, RCA tools, RACI Matrix, Risk Management Techniques).

• Certification from the organization on Project Management – RDPM, Type S or above preferred.

• Ability to effectively manage risks, communications, and stakeholders.

• Ability to work across multiple project teams to resolve dependencies and ambiguous situations.

• Knowledge/experience in expert functions like Software Development, Design, and Software Testing.

• Knowledge of best practices and latest trends in Agile software project management (e.g., continuous release, Agile Trains, SAFE, Scrum).

• Ability to build dashboards for stakeholders’ visibility on project status, customer footprint, customer escalations, product roadmap.

• Sound knowledge of SDLC and Software Engineering Processes.

• Ability to work independently and within a group/team environment.

• Demonstrate high levels of leadership and ability to influence team members.

• Critical thinking skills for resolving cross-functional problems.

• Ability to align and drive project team on customer centricity.