Senior Information Technology Project Manager
Careerfit
5 - 10 years
Pune
Posted: 17/02/2026
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Job Description
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project delivery (planning execution delivery closure) for software and integration initiatives, ensuring scope, timeline, quality, and budget targets are met.
- Manage stakeholders across business, product, engineering, and operationsfacilitate requirements, align priorities, and translate business needs into actionable delivery plans.
- Run Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and/or Waterfall milestones depending on project methodology; enforce sprint discipline and delivery cadences.
- Maintain and update project artefacts: schedules (MS Project/JIRA), risk & issue logs, RAID registers, status reports, and executive-level dashboards.
- Drive cross-functional coordination with onshore clients and offshore development teams to remove blockers, mitigate risks, and ensure timely deployments.
- Control project budgets, validate change requests, and uphold quality standards through acceptance criteria, UAT coordination, and release gating.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- 5+ years of proven experience managing IT or software delivery projects (end-to-end) in a client-facing, on-site capacity in India.
- Hands-on experience with Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies; adept at using JIRA and Confluence for backlog and delivery management.
- Strong stakeholder-management, communication, and facilitation skills; proven ability to work with product owners, engineering leads, and business sponsors.
- Practical skills in project scheduling (MS Project / Excel), risk & issue management, and reporting to senior leadership.
- Experience coordinating distributed teams (onshore/offshore) and managing deployments across environments.
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or equivalent technical background.
Preferred
- Certifications: PMP, PRINCE2, or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) preferred.
- Experience in SaaS, integrations (APIs), or enterprise platform implementations.
- Exposure to financial controls, budget forecasting, and vendor management.
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