Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end .net application development, enhancements, and production support for banking clients, ensuring effective client engagement, team leadership, financial management, governance, and high-quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery: Manage end-to-end .NET/Microsoft application development, enhancements, maintenance, and support; own plans, schedules, resources, scope, acceptance criteria, risks, and change control.
Client Management: Lead client communication, project reviews, governance, status reporting, risk mitigation, and stakeholder relationships.
Banking Applications: Understand banking/capital markets systems; coordinate BA, architecture, development, QA, and support teams; oversee requirements, testing, UAT, releases, deployment, and documentation.
Production Support: Ensure SLA/KPI compliance, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, service quality, support coverage, knowledge management, and business continuity.
Team Management: Lead cross-functional teams; manage staffing, capacity, utilization, onboarding, performance, training, skill development, and retention.
Financial Management: Track budgets, revenue, costs, margins, utilization, billability, and productivity; manage timesheets, billing, estimates, proposals, and commercial discussions.
Risk and Governance: Maintain RAID logs and reporting; ensure security and compliance, close audit actions and escalations, and assess scope changes for cost, schedule, resource, and quality impacts.
Engineering Excellence: Promote automation, reusable components, DevOps, and AI-assisted development/testing to improve quality, productivity, and delivery predictability.

Required Skills and Experience

10–15 years of IT experience, including 5+ years in project/application delivery management.
Experience in application development, enhancements, maintenance, and production support.
Strong SDLC, Agile/Sprint process, release management, testing, planning, estimation, risk, resource, and financial management skills.
Excellent client communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills; ability to manage multiple stakeholders and distributed teams.
Working knowledge of .NET, SQL, APIs, cloud technologies, and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or MS Project.

PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, or equivalent project management certification.
Experience with capital markets applications, equity research, trading, market risk, or related banking platforms.
Exposure to AI-assisted software development, test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps.
Experience managing offshore delivery teams and client engagements with commercial and SLA commitments.

On-time delivery; scope, estimate, and budget adherence; client satisfaction; SLA compliance and incident resolution; resource utilization, billability, and profitability; release quality and reduced rework; timely risk/escalation closure; and team stability and resource planning.

The candidate should be proactive, accountable, transparent, and execution-focused. They must be comfortable engaging directly with senior client stakeholders, taking ownership of delivery challenges, making data-driven decisions, and ensuring that commitments made to the client are consistently met.

Job description provided by Kumaran Systems.
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