Java Technical Project Manager

Direct Responsibilities

• Lead software development projects from inception to deployment, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Owner of technical projects including planning, tracking and implementation.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, business analysts, and stakeholders, to ensure that project requirements are clearly defined and understood.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and budgets, and track progress against these plans.
• Identify and manage project risks and issues, and develop contingency plans as needed.
• Ensure that project deliverables meet the required quality standards, and that all project documentation is complete and up-to-date.
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management, and provide regular project status reports.
• Mentor and coach team members and provide guidance and support as needed.
• Capacity planning, Leave planning, Recruitment, Successor planning.
• Leading scrum team. 
• Performance assessment of team members 
• Stay up-to-date with the latest JAVA technologies and development methodologies, and apply this knowledge to improve project delivery.
• Propose / Review/ Challenge Application Architecture and Design.
• Lead automation and guide teams to align with shift left and shift right strategy by encouraging a mindset for automation first and reduce recursive manual efforts
• Hands on and lead by example.
• Resolve performance bottlenecks. 
• Keep up to date with latest technologies, trends and provide inputs, expertise and recommendations.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards innovation; suggest new practices for efficiency improvement.
• Upskilling of members in the vertical. 

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to self-manage.
• Ability to prioritize and meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to communicate his/her ideas to the team and management. 
• Inspire commitment of team members to deliver. 
• Resourceful to quickly understand complexities involved and provide the way forward.
• Take ownership of the complex and challenging topics and find solutions. 
• Strong knowledge about design patterns and development principles.
• Strong hands-on experience Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework, Spring Boot, Angular, PLSQL or Oracle
• Strong hands-on knowledge on backend technologies
• Experience on Kubernetes, Microservices, Distributed Databases
• Practical experience on scalability, reliability, and stability of the application
• Architecturally enhancing / Re-designing applications which are already live. 
• Experience of working with build tools like Maven & DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube.
• Strong experience of Agile, Scrum, DevOps.
• Development experience of MVC Architecture based web applications, including creation of Web Services (RESTful APIs/ SOAP Services).
• Ability & willingness to learn & work on diverse technologies (languages, frameworks, and tools).
• Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.

Nice to have Skills: 

·       Worked in the area of Product Development and complex technical projects.

• Knowledge/experience on Dynatrace.

·       Knowledge/experience on No SQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), Kafka.

• Some exposure to Caching technologies like Redis or Apache Ignite.

·       Exposure to Client Management or financial domain.

·       Industry related certifications e.g. TOGAF