Qualcomm Chennai Site Leader/Project Manager 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

873862929

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Management

Responsibilities:

• As Site IT Leader, this role is IT’s face at the Site Leadership partnering with the Chennai R&D / Engineering teams and manage, coordinate, and support all the site-specific IT Infrastructure & Engineering services, resources, and solutions.

• This role is to ensure that all the IT related needs are being met in an efficient manner, allowing engineering to focus more on their overall business and strategy and commitments are not hindered by a lack of any Qualcomm IT resources or expertise.

• The person in role needs to collaborate extensively with various other functional IT orgs like Server, Storage, Networking, and end user services to ensure stable IT Infrastructure. In addition, this role will be responsible to inform the business units of IT systems, processes, resources, and changes that may help optimize site specific engineering projects, processes, and operations.

• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end software development lifecycle: design, developing, debugging, test planning/validating, optimization, customer-Stakeholder engagement and production support.

• Contributing to process improvements, innovating project management, and increasing PMO maturity objectives (e.g., standardized tools, templates, and processes).

• Creating work breakdown structure (WBS), identifying internal/external dependencies, defining task effort and duration estimates and tracking project schedule.

• The person in role would participate in local engineering site leadership meetings to present the monthly metrics on utilization, project updates and understand the upcoming engineering roadmap and plan for any IT related changes, upgrades or capacity expansions that are needed to enable the business.

• Lead and manage the existing IT team in Chennai including Engineering IT and end-user service engineers.

• Analytical ability identifying risks at the project and team level. Engaging stakeholders and senior management for risk mitigation or escalation

• Agile/Scrum processes and hybrid-application of multiple project management methodologies.

• Creating and Usage of JIRA and service now dashboards

• PMP and Agile/Scrum Master Certification is a plus

• Additional site-specific responsibilities include:

o Connect with the engineering directors and support partners at Chennai to understand the roadmaps and demands of OneIT for proper planning and execution.

o Establish and report Chennai IT Operational Metrics on a monthly cadence.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.

8+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

• 2+ years of experience leading projects/programs.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.