Company Name: McAfee Software India Private Limited
Job Description: Program/project Manager
Job Code: 864945
Work Experience: 10 – 15 Years
Work Location: Bangalore
Education: UG - Any Graduate
PG - Any Postgraduate
DOCTORATE - Doctorate Not Required
Keywords: Software Development, Program Management, Agile
Job Description
Manage short and long term projects and programs within McAfee
Consumer Engineering.
Ensures that each project/program meets the goals and objectives and
is achieved within the approved timeframe, scope and budget.
Evaluate project team progress and communicate status effectively and
issues to management appropriately
Primary Responsibilities
Manage multiple simultaneous cross functional teams and projects
across various sites & geographical locations. (Work directly with
Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, and IT to gather product
requirements, define key tasks, track project deliverables, dependencies, and
milestones throughout the complete project lifecycle)
Desired Profile
Experienced in driving project lifecycle processes, scheduling, risk
management, and conflict resolution techniques.
Create and maintain detailed project schedules and project management
plans, taking into account all dependencies and constraints
Must possess professional management skills; leadership, planning,
influencing, negotiating, problem-solving, and load balancing.
Must be able to drive process and achieve results in an ever-changing
environment without direct authority.
Manage change in accordance with the change management plant to
control scope, quality, schedule, cost, and contracts.
Motivate the team using appropriate tools and techniques in order to
increase commitment to the program objectives.
Establish alliances with other departments and organizations by
recognizing dependencies in order to assess potential partnership and
commitment to the program.
Capture program status and data by ensuring the population of the
program management information system in order to maintain accurate and current
program information for the use of stakeholders.
Obtain senior management approval for the program by presenting the
program charter with its high-level costs and benefits for the organization in
order to receive authorization to proceed to the next phase(s)
Hands-on experience managing projects on SCRUM is a mandatory
requirement.
Must be highly motivated and equally comfortable working on 1-day,
2-weeks, or 6-month plus projects in a pressured dynamic atmosphere.
Must have experience with traditional boxed software lifecycles and
software localization processes and terminology
Must have experience with project lifecycles, scheduling, risk
management, and conflict resolution techniques.
Must have excellent, proven verbal and written communication and
people skills to be able to communicate both internally and externally.
Experience working on projects which require 3rd party vendors and
outsourcing projects
Agile Project Management experience a definite asset to help drive
adoption of Agile for your projects/programs
Must possess professional management skills; leadership, planning,
influencing, negotiating, problem-solving, and load balancing
Experience in ecommerce & web domain based projects will be an
added advantage.
Experience in Software Development and/or Testing will be an added
advantage.
Experience in working in a product based company is preferred.
Experience in networking and/or security domain products will be an
added advantage.
In depth understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
Strong Leadership skills and a team player. Able to communicate
project objectives and motivate project teams to complete deliverables on time
and with high quality
Excellent Risk and Issue Management skills. Proactively identify risks
and issues and have appropriate mitigation/contingency/action plans created by
the risk/issue owner. Use appropriate judgment to escalate as necessary
High passion & commitment to execute projects as per the timelines
set.
Willingness to learn new processes, propagate them and drive change
management.
Provide recommendations to streamline or make existing processes more
efficient.
Willingness to work on fast paced projects including taking meetings
& calls beyond normal business hours
Ability to measure the health of the project/s by using appropriate
metrics
Must be proficient in MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
Qualifications & Skill Sets Required for the role:
Project Management 10+yrs, 4+yrs Program Management experience in
software development and web deployment
Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
PMP certification an asset
Agile experience a definite asset
Qualifications
5+ years as a Program Manager in a software development environment
4 yr degree in Computer Science or related technical field preferred
Intimate knowledge of Program management tools and procedures
Good working understanding of standard software development life
cycles
People management skills including conflict resolution and negotiation
Experience using MS Project
Ability to set priorities and make decisions
Ability to delegate and work collaboratively
Good Presentation skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to lead multi-functional teams
Website: http://www.mcafee.com