Title: Junior Project Managers/Analysts

Location: MUMBAI

Exp: 5+ Years

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Planning & Execution (25%)

Strategic Project Planning:

- Define comprehensive project scope, objectives, success criteria, and deliverables aligned with business strategy and technical requirements
- Develop detailed project plans including work breakdown structures, schedules, resource allocation, budget estimates, and dependency mapping
- Establish project governance structure with clear decision rights, escalation paths, and approval gates
- Create realistic timelines incorporating technical complexity, resource constraints, and risk factors
- Define and track key project milestones, deliverables, and quality gates

Execution & Delivery Management:

- Coordinate and monitor project progress across multiple workstreams and technical teams
- Track project performance against baseline using earned value management and agile metrics
- Conduct regular status reviews with project teams and stakeholders
- Identify schedule slippage, budget variance, or scope creep early and implement corrective actions
- Manage project changes through formal change control processes
- Ensure smooth handoffs between project phases and successful transition to production
- Lead project retrospectives capturing lessons learned and implementing improvements

Resource & Budget Management:

- Forecast and secure necessary technical resources (engineers, architects, QA, DevOps)
- Manage project budgets including labor costs, infrastructure, licensing, and vendor expenses
- Track resource utilization and optimize allocation across multiple initiatives
- Negotiate resource conflicts with engineering managers and prioritize critical path activities
- Monitor burn rate and forecast budget variances with mitigation plans 2. Technical Coordination & Leadership (30%)

Technical Architecture & Design Collaboration:

- Partner with software architects and technical leads to understand system architecture, technical constraints, and design decisions
- Facilitate technical design reviews ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability requirements are met
- Coordinate integration planning across multiple systems, APIs, and microservices
- Ensure technical dependencies are identified, documented, and tracked across teams
- Work with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipeline, deployment strategies, and infrastructure provisioning
- Understand cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure implications on project timelines

Technical Requirements Management:

- Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications
- Ensure technical requirements are complete, testable, and traceable through implementation
- Facilitate technical feasibility assessments and proof-of-concept planning
- Maintain requirements traceability matrix linking business needs to technical deliverables
- Manage technical debt discussions and prioritization with engineering teams
- Coordinate API design, data model definitions, and integration specifications

Engineering Team Enablement:

- Act as primary liaison between product management and engineering teams
- Remove technical blockers and impediments hindering development progress
- Facilitate resolution of technical disputes or conflicting priorities
- Translate technical complexities into business language for non-technical stakeholders
- Ensure engineering teams have clarity on priorities, requirements, and success criteria
- Champion engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, and documentation

Technical Risk Assessment:

- Identify technical risks including architectural complexity, technology maturity, and integration challenges
- Collaborate with architects and senior engineers on risk mitigation strategies
- Assess impact of technical decisions on project schedule, cost, and quality
- Monitor technical health indicators (code quality, test coverage, performance metrics)
- Escalate technical concerns to engineering leadership with recommended solutions 3.

Stakeholder

Management & Communication (20%)

Cross-Functional Partnership:

- Build strong working relationships with product managers aligning project execution with product strategy and roadmap
- Partner with product owners ensuring backlog prioritization supports project milestones
- Collaborate with engineering managers on resource planning, capacity management, and team velocity
- Coordinate with QA leadership on test strategy, automation, and quality metrics
- Engage with architecture, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams on technical governance requirements
- Work with release management on deployment planning and production readiness

Executive & Leadership Communication:

- Prepare and deliver executive status reports with Red/Yellow/Green health indicators and trend analysis




- Present to senior leadership on project progress, risks, and strategic decisions needed
- Translate technical details into business impact for executive audiences
- Facilitate steering committee meetings and governance checkpoints
- Manage escalations effectively, providing context and recommended actions
- Build credibility with leadership through transparency, data-driven insights, and proactive communication

Stakeholder Expectation Management:

- Conduct stakeholder analysis identifying interests, influence, and communication preferences
- Develop stakeholder engagement plans with tailored communication strategies
- Proactively manage scope expectations and negotiate tradeoffs when necessary
- Navigate organizational politics diplomatically resolving conflicting priorities
- Build consensus among diverse stakeholders with competing interests
- Celebrate wins and recognize team contributions fostering positive relationships

Communication Excellence:

- Create clear, concise project communication including status reports, dashboards, and presentations
- Maintain project wiki/Confluence spaces with current documentation accessible to all stakeholders
- Facilitate effective meetings with clear agendas, timeboxed discussions, and actionable outcomes
- Ensure consistent messaging across stakeholder groups avoiding confusion or misalignment
- Practice active listening and empathy in stakeholder interactions
- Adapt communication style to audience technical proficiency and organizational level 4.

Agile Project

Management & Delivery (15%)

Agile Methodology Implementation:

- Drive agile/scrum practices within project teams ensuring adherence to sprint cycles and agile principles
- Tailor agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Protected) to project context and organizational maturity
- Balance agile flexibility with project predictability providing reliable delivery commitments
- Champion agile values of transparency, inspection, and adaptation
- Support Product Owners in effective backlog management and prioritization
- Foster agile mindset across teams emphasizing collaboration and iterative delivery

Agile Ceremony Facilitation:

- Facilitate or coordinate sprint planning sessions ensuring realistic commitments and clear sprint goals
- Support daily stand-ups keeping teams focused and identifying blockers quickly
- Participate in sprint reviews providing project context and stakeholder perspective
- Lead or contribute to sprint retrospectives driving continuous improvement
- Coordinate Program Increment (PI) planning in scaled agile environments
- Ensure ceremonies remain productive, timeboxed, and valuable to teams

Agile Metrics & Performance:

- Track team velocity, sprint burn-down, and release burn-up charts
- Monitor cycle time, lead time, and throughput for continuous flow optimization
- Measure sprint predictability and work with teams to improve estimation accuracy
- Use cumulative flow diagrams identifying bottlenecks and workflow inefficiencies
- Report on agile health metrics (escaped defects, technical debt, automation coverage)
- Balance speed with quality ensuring sustainable pace and technical excellence

Continuous Improvement:

- Identify process inefficiencies and lead improvement initiatives
- Experiment with new agile practices and tools measuring effectiveness
- Share best practices across project teams and engineering organization
- Facilitate problem-solving sessions using root cause analysis techniques
- Encourage team autonomy and self-organization while maintaining accountability
- Foster learning culture where failures are treated as improvement opportunities 5. Risk Management & Problem Solving (10%)

Proactive Risk Management:

- Identify, assess, and prioritize project risks across technical, schedule, resource, and organizational dimensions
- Develop comprehensive risk mitigation and contingency plans
- Maintain risk register with probability/impact analysis and mitigation status
- Monitor risk triggers and execute response plans proactively
- Escalate risks appropriately providing leadership with options and recommendations
- Conduct "pre-mortem" exercises anticipating potential failures and planning prevention
- Balance risk mitigation with acceptable risk-taking enabling innovation

Issue Resolution & Escalation:

- Rapidly identify and triage issues impacting project progress
- Facilitate root cause analysis and problem-solving sessions with cross-functional teams
- Drive resolution of technical blockers coordinating across engineering, architecture,



and infrastructure teams
- Manage critical production issues during project deployment and stabilization
- Know when and how to escalate effectively providing context and recommended solutions
- Track issues to closure ensuring accountability and timely resolution
- Document issues and resolutions building organizational knowledge

Technical Problem Solving:

- Anticipate technical bottlenecks based on architecture complexity and team capacity
- Collaborate with engineers on solution alternatives evaluating tradeoffs
- Challenge technical assumptions and push for creative solutions
- Facilitate technical deep-dives when issues are complex or ambiguous
- Balance technical perfection with practical delivery timelines
- Support teams through difficult technical challenges providing encouragement and resources 6. Quality Assurance & Compliance (5%)

Quality Management:

- Ensure all deliverables meet quality standards and acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with QA teams integrating testing throughout project lifecycle (shift-left testing)
- Define test strategy including unit, integration, system, performance, and security testing
- Track quality metrics including defect density, test coverage, and escaped defects
- Ensure adequate test environments and data availability supporting quality objectives
- Balance speed-to-market with quality and technical debt management
- Champion non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, maintainability)

Compliance & Governance:

- Ensure projects comply with NUVEEN policies, standards, and regulatory requirements
- Coordinate with Information Security on security reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation
- Support audit activities providing documentation and evidence of controls
- Ensure change management and production deployment approvals
- Maintain project artifacts per retention policies and governance frameworks
- Implement controls ensuring data privacy, confidentiality, and regulatory compliance

Production Readiness:

- Lead production readiness reviews ensuring operational preparedness
- Coordinate with infrastructure, monitoring, and support teams on go-live planning
- Develop rollback and contingency plans for deployment risks
- Ensure runbooks, operational documentation, and knowledge transfer to support teams
- Monitor post-deployment stability and coordinate rapid issue resolution
- Facilitate lessons learned capturing deployment insights for future improvements

Required Qualifications

Experience:

- 6 years of progressive experience in technical project management, software engineering, or related technical roles
- Minimum 3-4 years managing complex technical projects in Hybrid environments
- Proven track record delivering software products or platforms from conception through production deployment
- Experience working directly with software engineering teams managing full SDLC
- Demonstrated success navigating complex technical landscapes with multiple dependencies
- Background working in product-led organizations with cross-functional teams
- Financial services or regulated industry experience highly preferred

Technical Knowledge: Software Development & Architecture:

- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, DevOps)
- Working knowledge of modern software architecture patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven, serverless)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native development
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices (code reviews, TDD, refactoring, technical debt management)
- Understanding of data architecture, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and data integration patterns

Technical Tools & Platforms:

- Hands-on experience with project management tools: Jira, Confluence (required)
- Proficiency with collaboration tools: Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom
- Experience with version control concepts (Git/GitHub/Bitbucket)
- Familiarity with development environments and tools engineers use
- Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Splunk, Datadog, New Relic)
- Knowledge of test management and automation frameworks

Project Management Expertise:

- Strong command of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, traditional/waterfall)
- Proficiency creating project plans, schedules, WBS, and Gantt charts (MS Project, Smartsheet)
- Budget management and financial tracking capabilities
- Risk management frameworks and techniques
- Change management and stakeholder engagement practices
- Earned value management and project performance measurement

Preferred Qualifications

Certifications:

- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) or SAFe Agilist (SA)

- PRINCE2 Practitioner

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📌 Junior Project Managers/Analysts (Mumbai)
🏢 NR Consulting
📍 Mumbai