Technical Project Manager

• *Job Information**
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• Department Name Banking
• Date Opened 10/30/2026
• Industry IT Services
• Job Type Full time
• Work Experience 12 \- 15 Years
• City Chennai
• State/Province Tamil Nadu
• Country India
• Zip/Postal Code 600032
• *About Us**
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Kumaran Systems: Engineering Future\-Ready Transformations Since 1992, Kumaran Systems has been helping enterprises bridge the past and the future, reimagining legacy systems and embracing AI\-led possibilities. With over 34 years of delivery excellence, we specialise in re\-engineering core applications, driving cloud transformation, and building automation\-first, GenAI\-enabled ecosystems across the Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Automotive sectors. We help organisations not just upgrade their systems but reimagine what’s possible.

Why Kumaran?

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don’t just solve problems, we engineer future\-ready transformations.

• *Job Description**
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Role Overview

• We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead end\-to\-end .net application development, enhancements, and production support for banking clients, ensuring effective client engagement, team leadership, financial management, governance, and high\-quality delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery: Manage end\-to\-end .NET/Microsoft application development, enhancements, maintenance, and support; own plans, schedules, resources, scope, acceptance criteria, risks, and change control.
• Client Management: Lead client communication, project reviews, governance, status reporting, risk mitigation, and stakeholder relationships.
• Banking Applications: Understand banking/capital markets systems; coordinate BA, architecture, development, QA, and support teams; oversee requirements, testing, UAT, releases, deployment, and documentation.
• Production Support: Ensure SLA/KPI compliance, incident resolution, root\-cause analysis, service quality, support coverage, knowledge management, and business continuity.
• Team Management: Lead cross\-functional teams; manage staffing, capacity, utilization, onboarding, performance, training, skill development, and retention.
• Financial Management: Track budgets, revenue, costs, margins, utilization, billability, and productivity; manage timesheets, billing, estimates, proposals, and commercial discussions.
• Risk and Governance: Maintain RAID logs and reporting; ensure security and compliance, close audit actions and escalations, and assess scope changes for cost, schedule, resource, and quality impacts.
• Engineering Excellence: Promote automation, reusable components, DevOps, and AI\-assisted development/testing to improve quality, productivity, and delivery predictability.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10–15 years of IT experience, including 5\+ years in project/application delivery management.
• Experience in application development, enhancements, maintenance, and production support.
• Strong SDLC, Agile/Sprint process, release management, testing, planning, estimation, risk, resource, and financial management skills.
• Excellent client communication, negotiation, and problem\-solving skills; ability to manage multiple stakeholders and distributed teams.
• Working knowledge of .NET, SQL, APIs, cloud technologies, and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or MS Project.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience with capital markets applications, equity research, trading, market risk, or related banking platforms.
• Exposure to AI\-assisted software development, test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Experience managing offshore delivery teams and client engagements with commercial and SLA commitments.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• On\-time delivery; scope, estimate, and budget adherence; client satisfaction; SLA compliance and incident resolution; resource utilization, billability, and profitability; release quality and reduced rework; timely risk/escalation closure; and team stability and resource planning.

Desired Candidate Profile

• The candidate should be proactive, accountable, transparent, and execution\-focused. They must be comfortable engaging directly with senior client stakeholders, taking ownership of delivery challenges, making data\-driven decisions, and ensuring that commitments made to the client are consistently met.

Kumaran Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.