Coforge - Senior Project Manager - IT Projects

Senior Project Manager

Experience: 10 - 16 Years

Job Location: Noida

Notice Period: Less than 60 days preferred

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• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of complex IT projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and client expectations.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and resource requirements in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, resource allocation plans, and delivery tracking mechanisms.
• Manage project execution from initiation through closure, ensuring adherence to agreed scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, and contractual commitments.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, architecture, quality assurance, infrastructure, business analysis, and operations, to ensure effective project delivery.
• Establish project governance frameworks, reporting structures, escalation mechanisms, and stakeholder communication plans.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and dependencies, resolve issues, and implement appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Conduct regular project status meetings, steering committee meetings, stakeholder reviews, and delivery governance sessions.
• Manage client relationships and communicate project progress, challenges, risks, and delivery outcomes to senior stakeholders.
• Oversee resource planning, capacity management, effort estimation, and team allocation to ensure efficient utilization of project resources.
• Manage scope changes, project dependencies, assumptions, risks, and issues through appropriate change-control processes.
• Ensure adherence to project management methodologies, delivery standards, quality processes, and organizational policies.
• Drive Agile project management practices, including sprint planning, backlog reviews, retrospectives, and delivery reviews, wherever applicable.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, including project plans, status reports, RAID logs, meeting minutes, and lessons learned.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, delivery optimization, and increased project efficiency.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to ensure project outcomes meet agreed requirements and client expectations.

Role Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT project management, delivery management, or program coordination, with demonstrated responsibility for managing complex projects.
• Proven experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate multiple stakeholders.
• Strong client-facing experience, including project reviews, status reporting, escalation management, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience in risk management, change management, resource planning, and project governance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong leadership, decision-making, organizational, and conflict-resolution abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and ensure timely delivery of project commitments