About Persistent

We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what's next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem. Our disruptor's mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We have delivered 23 sequential quarters of growth with $422.5M in Q3 FY26 revenue, up 4.0% Q-o-Q and 17.3% Y-o-Y growth.

Our 26,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We won the 2025 ISG Star of Excellence? Award for AI and Data Excellence and were named a Leader in the Everest Group Talent Readiness for Next-generation Data, Analytics and AI Services PE?� Assessment 2025.

Location: Hyderabad, India

Years of Experience: 12 to 15 Years

About Position

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of technology and business initiatives. This role is critical in ensuring project planning, scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, dependencies, governance, stakeholder communication, and successful transition to operations. The Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional teams, maintain delivery discipline, and provide clear, decision-oriented updates to sponsors, clients, PMO, and senior leadership.

What You'll Do

- Own project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, closure, and post-implementation review across the delivery lifecycle.
- Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, deliverables, work breakdown structure, milestones, estimates, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering timelines, resources, budgets, dependencies, environments, testing, release readiness, and operational transition.
- Lead Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery based on project needs; facilitate planning, reviews, retrospectives, governance forums, and decision checkpoints.
- Monitor schedule, effort, cost, quality,



and scope performance; identify variance early and implement practical recovery or corrective-action plans.
- Maintain RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, owners, target dates, status, impact, and mitigation.
- Prepare concise project health reports, RAG status, dashboards, forecasts, steering committee updates, executive summaries, and escalation recommendations.
- Coordinate engineering, architecture, quality assurance, infrastructure, security, operations, vendor, and business teams to achieve committed outcomes.
- Manage requirements, scope changes, change requests, approvals, baselines, traceability, and impact assessments while preventing uncontrolled scope growth.
- Engage sponsors, clients, product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery leaders to align priorities, resolve decisions, and manage expectations.
- Plan resource demand and capacity; track allocation, onboarding, productivity, skills gaps, succession needs, and continuity for critical roles.
- Ensure quality gates, testing evidence, security and compliance obligations, release approvals, deployment plans, rollback readiness, and hypercare support are addressed.
- Manage vendor or partner commitments, statement-of-work deliverables, commercials, invoicing inputs, service levels, and contractual dependencies where applicable.
- Drive lessons learned, process improvement, reusable governance practices, and knowledge transfer across project teams.

Mandatory Skills

- Strong capability in project management covering scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, risk, stakeholder, communication, procurement, and change management.
- Practical experience with Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Proficiency in defining milestones, critical paths, dependencies, forecasts, baselines, recovery plans, and measurable completion criteria.
- Experience with project charters, plans, RAID logs, RACI matrices, change control, status reports, dashboards, and audit-ready documentation.
- Ability to assess risks and issues, including probability, impact, exposure, urgency, mitigation, and escalation thresholds.
- Working knowledge of budgets, forecasts, burn rates, resource costs, variance analysis, purchase orders, invoicing, and commercial tracking.




- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with clients, sponsors, PMO, business owners, technical leaders, vendors, and distributed delivery teams.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Power BI.

Preferred Skills

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Experience managing medium-to-large technology projects with cross-functional, distributed, client-facing, or regulated delivery teams.
- Ability to create leadership-ready presentations, status summaries, risk views, decision papers, and action trackers.

Expertise You'll Bring

The successful candidate combines disciplined project controls with practical leadership. They create clarity from ambiguity, keep teams focused on outcomes, communicate risks without delay, and balance delivery speed with quality, governance, compliance, and stakeholder confidence.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
- Chance to work with cutting-edge technologies
- Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
- Annual health check-ups
- Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment: Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

- We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
- Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
- If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

Let's unleash your full potential at Persistent - persistent.com/careers "Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind."

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Open Positions

Scrum Master,Project Management

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HYDERABAD

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Scrum Master,Project Management

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📌 Senior Project Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Persistent Systems
📍 Hyderabad