Job Description

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent
Title: Project Manager
Department: FIL India Technology - Retail Technology
Location: Gurgaon, India
Reports To:

About Fidelity International
Fidelity International offers world class investment solutions and retirement expertise. As a privately owned, independent company, investment is our only business. We are driven by the needs of our clients, not by shareholders. Our vision is to deliver innovative client solutions for a better future.
Our people are passionate, engaged, smart and curious, and we give them the independence and the confidence to make a difference. While we take pride in the excellence of our investment solutions and client service, we know we can always do better. We are honest, respectful and make tough calls, challenging the status quo to achieve better outcomes through innovation. Above all else, we always put our clients first.
Find out more about what we do, our history, and how you could be a part of our future at
http://www.fidelityrecruitment.com/india/about-us
Our Values
All of our people must be able to demonstrate affinity with the Fidelity core values:
Innovation – Being willing to experiment and try new and better ways to serve our clients.
Integrity – Taking personal responsibility for always acting in the best interests of our clients.
Excellence – Striving to be the best while knowing we can always be better next time.
Our Behaviours
All of our people must be able to operate in accordance with our behaviours:
Commitment – We are committed to our clients and proud to work for Fidelity. We push through obstacles to make things happen; we make decisions quickly and thoughtfully. We are individually committed to building a culture of excellence.
Collaboration – We collaborate with colleagues, seek alternative views, invite different ideas and always challenge traditional thinking. This approach allows us to create a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Client Focus – We are expected to, and measured on, our ability to put our client first. We go the extra mile to understand their needs and strive to exceed their expectations. We listen carefully, we communicate clearly, and we’re quick to respond. We’re respectful of the trust placed in us to manage their money.
Department Description
The UK Retail Group is charged with the development and operating model for Fidelity’s Wrap platforms for the Personal Investing business and FundsNetworkTM, including implementation of new tax wrappers, web front end and service layer, interfaces, document composition and production, STP/automation and migrations from legacy systems. Our objective is to be the ‘supplier of choice’ for all IP services to our businesses as well as having the clear mandate to identify the future opportunities that will maintain and extend Fidelity’s lead in online financial services.
The department is currently expanding in order to satisfy the high level of demand for both short term tactical project delivery and the execution of a programme of strategic development which will see the complete reshaping of our platform capability and customer experience through the replacement and enhancement of our existing platform capability which supports our growing direct and intermediated businesses in the region.
Purpose of your role
Institutional Technology needs a highly motivated Project Manager (PM) to manage multiple projects based out of India. The successful candidate shall oversee all aspects of an engagement(s) using planning, monitoring and controlling processes as per the Fidelity guidelines and standards, and shall be responsible for completion of projects on time, on budget and meeting the requirements. To this end, PM will perform a variety of tasks including coordinating all resources and stakeholders, planning and setting milestones, assigning responsibilities and monitoring, creating high performing project teams and form excellent working relationships with senior customer representatives across multiple business and system teams.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of IT projects using latest methodologies such as Agile and DevOps with key focus areas being delivery management, stakeholder management and people management.
• Establish and uphold Agile values and principles including collaboration with different teams, fostering a culture of understanding business value, team empowerment and self- organization, continuous improvement and flexibility to adapt to emerging business needs.
• Effective communicator
• Exhibits good problem-solving skills and proactive approach towards resolving impediments
• Work with Technical team in estimating the work and challenge them back
• Plan the delivery schedule including tasks, milestones, and dependencies keeping the full resources utilization in mind
• Monitor the progress of a project and ensure regular publishing of status report, quality metrics and timely call out the risks/issues in Program Impediment calls
• Track the risks and issues and proactively work on resolution and mitigation approach
• Own the feature scrums and work closely with technical team to establish the roadmap for components
• Manage medium size programs and bringing different teams together
• Ensure that project activities are undertaken and completed as per the Fidelity processes and standards
• Provide recommendations and help direct reports with talent management, objective setting, career development, job rotations, fair and timely appraisals, pipeline management, training, international opportunities, and identification of high potentials, under-performers.
• Manage vendor staff as needed and according to the agreed contract(s).
• Create an efficient and effective organisation structure.

Experience and Qualifications

• BE / B-Tech / MCA
• 10 - 14 years of relevant industry experience and at least 7-8 years of experience in leading projects

Essential Skills

• Expert in delivering projects using Agile methodologies - ensures effective and efficient Agile ceremonies including daily stand- ups, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives keeping the overall business value at the core
• Understands the technical aspects and the functional value and use it for efficient scrum delivery
• Experience in supporting and enlightening the Product Owner and Business Analysts, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog
• Exposed to Scrum of Scrums and work with other Scrum Masters within the other teams to achieve the program objectives
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, conflict resolution and building a high performing team
• Track and communicate the overall progress of the release to the stakeholders (using Burn-downs, JIRA dashboards etc.)
• Identify and control project risks by means of prevention, mitigation and contingencies.
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in managing Java based large, complex development and enhancement projects with full budgetary and delivery responsibilities
• Good knowledge of industry standard project management and methodologies
• Knowledge of project estimation techniques such as WBS, FP, etc.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence
• Knowledge of project planning and tracking by using tools such as MS-Project
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach/mentor and learn from others
• Knowledge of technology, third party products and their products
• Experience of providing global systems solutions & knowledge of internationalisation aspects
• Experience of working with multi-cultural teams in a geographically diverse environment

Desirable Skills

• Must have worked on Core Java
• Exposure to DevOps in earlier projects
• Understanding of PaaS/Cloud
• Understanding of Configuration Management processes
• Operates largely independently, with minimal guidance and monitoring
• Appreciation and knowledge of technologies used within the project
• Good influencing, negotiation skills
• Ability to lead and motivate the project team
• Good client relationship management skills
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment
• Self-motivated, flexible, responsible, and a penchant for quality
• Willingness to work UK business hours (though occasionally)