Project Manager (Entrepreneur Knol)

About knoldus:

Yes, you read it right! If you are an entrepreneur who wants to make it big in the functional programming world then we would like you to talk to us. You would be running entire operations of a Knoldus location!

Knoldus is an organization that helps partners right from Startups to Fortune 500 realize their product dream. The products that we create are Scalable, Resilient and highly performant. They would harness the power of the machine like no other. The technology of choice is based on the Typesafe stack augmented with strong Agile focus and skills of the team at Knoldus. We are one of the forerunners on Big Data Analytics and Big Data Crunching using functional programming.

Technical Skills:

Battle scars from building reliable web-scale systems.
Passion for building products used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
Experience building large scale, high performance distributed systems.
Excellent programming skills in Java or Scala.
Experience with Storm, Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, Neo4j.
Experience with high availability systems is a strong plus.

Other Skills:

You are a team motivator and not a boss. At Knoldus respect comes with knowledge and not with years of experience.
Started or been closely associated with people who started a company earlier. If you failed in doing that then you have the scars which make you even better.
Be responsible for the technical design and experience in guiding/mentoring others.
Able to work in a no-hierarchy environment, and fast sprint work cycles.
Excellent analytical aptitude and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and customer interfacing skill.
Constantly upgrades self-knowledge & share with a team.
Team player skills. At Knoldus respect comes with knowledge and not with years of experience.
Blogger, Conference Speaker, Open Source Contributor.

KRA:

Customer Management:

Manage client requests and expectations; coordinate with the client engineering team
Assist Onsite Co-ordinator to Set/ negotiate expectations
Understand (implicit and explicit) customer feedback and adopt in the subsequent deliveries

Project Management:

Primarily responsible for successful completion of the project on time, on budget, specification with an objective to delight and satisfy customers
Performing basic project management activities such as planning, budgeting, resource allocation, high utilization, estimation, etc
Providing technical vision for the project(s) (In case of Technical Managers)
Primary responsibility for project execution, meeting timelines, achieving planned milestones, ensuring the quality of deliverables sent to the client, project monitoring & control, and project closure.
Engage client in all project life cycle activities for quality delivery and reducing risk
Ensure project documentation is in place, complete, and of good quality and kept in versioning tool
Supervise and manage project development effort estimation and precisely calculate project size.
Convey and convince Project Estimation to the client
Set architectural and design Guidelines and Checklist
Set architectural and design Guidelines and Checklist
Supervise, schedule and allocate tasks, integrate, review and produce status reports

Issue & Risk Managemen:

Anticipate risks at the customer's end and mitigate early
Understand political & competitive threats and strategize to respond to them
Issue escalation and resolution

Team Management:

Fair and constructive appraisals of team members at a regular frequency
Ensure that the team works in proper coordination and in sync with the plans - anticipate personal or professional issues and help sort them out
Supervise and help the Project lead/ team members working with analysts on the feasibility and workability of conceptual design by taking high-level functional/technical specifications prepared by the analyst and designing system components to meet the stated need.
Also supervise the preparation of functional/technical specifications.
Mentor team members to match with the Project expectation.

Account Mining:

Mine the client account for more avenues of working together.
Discover and create opportunities.
Ensure account profitability.

Organizational activities:

Help in Building future capabilities for the company - both with regard to technology development and managerial talent - in line with the company's overall long term strategy.
Communicate company plans and future strategy to the team members with discretion, with the aim of keeping them involved and informed.
Liaison with other Project managers/project leads to help solve technical issues at a quick pace and provide for re-use of components/functionalities wherever possible.
Establishing, updating and sharing good practices and processes for designing, coding, testing, team collaboration, knowledge sharing, communication, configuration management, documentation, etc. for the project.
Ensure compliance of the performance measurement processes laid down by the organization.
Participating in Staffing activities of the organization.
Enabling a professional and friendly work environment.
Assistance in POC and contribute to RFPs.

Technical Skills:

Strong focus on technology, you would have presented at conferences, authored books, have an active blog site and strong presence on GitHub.
has lead teams to build a company. Apart from the technology you have it in you to build business lines. Work with a group of people and convert them into a team. Work with teams to convert them into a company.
Expertise in object-oriented programming with strong coding and debugging abilities.
Ability to resolve technical queries/issues of their team members.
Grasp the big picture, and be curious about and engaged in the broader world.
Nimble and flexible enough to thrive in a rapidly evolving business environment.
An independent thinker and not a technologist who just executes on specs.
Able to have big thoughts and the courage to voice them.
Enthusiastic for emerging technologies.