Project Manager

Principal Project Manager / Squad Leader Airline Digital Solutions

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 1013 Years

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners, Serving Notice Period, or Candidates with up to 30 Days Notice

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Principal Project Manager / Squad Leader to lead the delivery of digital transformation initiatives within the airline and travel domain. This is a customer-facing leadership role responsible for managing cross-functional teams, driving stakeholder engagement, and ensuring successful end-to-end delivery of business-critical solutions.

The ideal candidate will have strong airline domain expertise, proven experience managing agile teams, excellent client-facing skills, and a solid understanding of modern web technologies, preferably Angular.

Key Responsibilities

Business & Delivery Leadership

• Lead a squad comprising developers, business analysts, UX specialists, and other supporting roles.
• Act as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders and customers.
• Own the squad's functional scope and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Drive requirement gathering, prioritization, planning, and successful delivery.

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Collaborate closely with customer stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into actionable requirements.
• Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Build strong relationships across business and technology teams.

Delivery Management

• Manage end-to-end delivery from requirement definition through implementation, testing, release, and post-production support.
• Monitor project milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and quality metrics.
• Ensure timely and successful execution of roadmap commitments.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate with architecture, product, engineering, and support teams.
• Drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and dependent teams.
• Facilitate decision-making and resolve delivery bottlenecks.

Solution Consulting

• Provide functional guidance and contribute to solution discussions.
• Support troubleshooting, defect analysis, and implementation decisions.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with customer expectations.

Required Skills & Experience

Must Have

• 1013 years of overall experience in Project Management, Delivery Management, or Squad Leadership roles.
• Strong experience in the Airline, Aviation, or Travel Technology domain.
• Proven experience managing customer-facing engagements and stakeholder relationships.
• Experience leading Agile/Scrum teams.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and digital product delivery.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and leadership skills.

Preferred

• Hands-on development background, preferably with Angular.
• Exposure to modern web application architectures and cloud-based environments.
• Experience managing teams of 1020 members.
• Knowledge of digital customer experience platforms and enterprise-scale applications.

Why Join?

• Opportunity to work on large-scale digital transformation initiatives within the airline industry.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Lead impactful projects that directly influence customer experience and business outcomes.

Interested candidates can share their updated resume along with current CTC, expected CTC, notice period, and preferred location.