Role & Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of technically complex software projects.
- Translate business requirements into actionable features, user stories, specifications, and delivery plans.
- Manage scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, and technical deliverables.
- Coordinate architects, technical leads, developers, QA, DevOps, business analysts, and other stakeholders.
- Drive Agile/Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Establish and maintain project plans, milestones, release plans, and delivery status.
- Ensure requirements, architecture, development, testing, and deployment remain aligned.
- Coordinate technical design and architecture reviews with the Technical Lead.
- Drive requirements traceability and documentation throughout the SDLC.
- Support adoption of Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and Git-based development practices.
- Track technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, and architectural decisions.
- Coordinate SIT, UAT, production readiness, releases, and post-release activities.
- Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to management and stakeholders.
- Ensure adherence to engineering, security, quality, and delivery standards.
- Facilitate resolution of cross-team technical and delivery issues.
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, React.js, TypeScript, SQL, and microservices.
- Good understanding of software architecture and distributed systems.
- Understanding of API-first and event-driven architectures.
- Understanding of cloud, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and CI/CD.
- Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum and SDLC processes.
- Experience with Git/GitHub and modern development practices.
- Knowledge of Spec-Driven Development / GitHub Spec Kit is an advantage.
- Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and DevOps practices.
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to review architecture and technical designs and communicate technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience
- 10+ years of overall IT/software engineering experience.
- 5+ years in technical project/program management or technical delivery management.
- Experience managing enterprise application development projects involving multiple technical teams.
- Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams.
- Experience managing distributed or cross-functional development teams.
- Experience with end-to-end SDLC from requirements through production deployment.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and senior stakeholders.
- Experience in architecture-led or modernization projects is preferred.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of overall IT or software engineering experience
- 5+ years of technical project, program, or delivery management experience
- Experience managing enterprise application development projects involving multiple technical teams
- Experience working with Agile or Scrum teams
- Experience managing distributed or cross-functional development teams
- Experience with end-to-end SDLC from requirements through production deployment
- Experience working with enterprise clients and senior stakeholders
- Strong understanding of Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, React.js, TypeScript, SQL, and microservices
- Understanding of software architecture and distributed systems
- Understanding of API-first and event-driven architectures
- Understanding of cloud, containers, Kubernetes or OpenShift, and CI/CD
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and SDLC processes
- Experience with Git/GitHub and modern development practices
- Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and DevOps practices
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills
- Ability to review architecture and technical designs and communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in architecture-led or modernization projects
- Knowledge of Spec-Driven Development or GitHub Spec Kit
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
