- Work in close collaboration with project sponsors and stakeholders to ensure appropriate definition of project goals, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
- Day-to-day coordination on progress, prioritization and problem solving with the Enterprise Data teams.
- Support the process of documenting business requirements/user stories from stakeholders.
- Support prioritization of the requirements catalogue/user story backlog.
- Coordinate interactions with the business platforms/entities.
- Support alignment meetings like stand-ups, cadence calls etc.
- Create detailed project plans and sprint backlogs.
- Create and deliver project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs or requirements.
- Identify resources and assign responsibilities to deliver required project outcomes.
- Oversee and control the delivery of project activity across the business.
- Drive the projects to completion, including re-planning and finding alternative approaches to overcome obstacles to project progress.
- Identify, assess, and appropriately mitigate risk to project delivery.
- Delivery of all projects within the prescribed governance structure.
- Building, tracking, maintaining, and reporting of project budgets and forecasts.
- Provide data-driven account management, project management, and sales support to clients.
- Engage with clients and prospective clients and assist with business/technical discovery and visioning sessions.
EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:
- Min 15 years work experience in successful delivery of complex data related projects end to end.
- Experience in Agile or DataOps delivery,
quality practices, techniques, and tools at all layers of data engineering
- Tech-savvy and good understanding of recent technologies incl. Azure cloud API, inclusion of unstructured data, business intelligence tools.
- Familiarity with JIRA and other prioritization tools
- Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies (Agile/Waterfall) to work with intricate, multifaceted projects.
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
- Comfortable with changing and flexible requirements from business owner
- Customer oriented attitude
- High degree of self-motivation
- Experience managing third party relationships in the successful achievement of customer deliveries.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering high quality projects & programs up to medium to large sized accounts.
- Demonstrated experience in successful delivery of complex data related projects end to end.
- Ability to communicate clearly to all levels and present to senior leadership.
- Ability to lead, motivate & direct med-large sized engineering delivery teams.
- Ability to help define delivery management core processes and improvement opportunities.
- Demonstrated attentiveness to quality and productivity as outcomes.
- Advanced analytical, problem solving, negotiation and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage significant delivery budgets and minimize program variances.
- Robust ability to lead teams across multiple shores.
- Strong ETL skills and working experience with SSIS and related functions.
- Knowledge of data warehouse and data lake frameworks