Project Manager

The Area: The Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions. It uses Morningstar’s intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process—market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation. The unit offers a broad suite of global equity, bond, commodity and asset allocation indexes.

The Role: As a Scrum Master you will ensure comfortable functioning in a dynamic and global environment. You will work closely with the product owners and the different technology and business leads across Morningstar to pursue/implement cross team technical projects. You will be very well verse with Scrum agile methodologies and various Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, daily stand ups and Sprint reviews. You will be a top performer who is prepared to think critically throughout the project management cycle, teach others the fundamentals of project management, and continuously seek improvements and efficiencies wherever possible during the data collection process.

Job responsibilities:

• Conceptualize, define, and manage technology projects from end-to-end, working closely with the development and business teams.
• Participate in estimations with tech and business teams and draft it using standard templates
• Communicate and track the project progress to cross-functional teams, ensuring its overall success.
• Ensure progress of multiple projects against schedule, within budget and to high quality standards.
• Define, manage, and improve the development process.
• Mentor/educate team members and peers in project management methods and best practices.
• Manage and drive change where needed to core operational processes, dynamically reacting to evolving client needs and competing priorities.
• Manage each major and minor platform release worldwide, then collect and share valuable lessons learned.
• Help global teams to juggle schedules and resources.
• Effectively communicate objectives and updates to all key stakeholders.
• Clearing obstacles and Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions
• Establishing an environment where the team can be effective
Qualifications: These are the most important skills, qualities, etc. that we’d like for this role.
• Overall experience of around 6-7 years out of which 3-5 years in leading a project in .net/java and MS SQL with minimum of five years in large scale system project management
• Minimum 3 years of hands on experience of working in Scrum methodology as a Scrum Master
• Experience in cloud computing (AWS) and Open source will be a plus
• Experience in Capital Market domain/ Finance domain will be a plus
• Should have experience of planning, executing and monitoring a Sprint of minimum two weeks
• Should be aware of agile planning techniques like poker planning
• Hands on in reporting the fortnightly, monthly project status to the stakeholders
• Self-starter, comfortable with implementing and executing Agile development processes and accepting responsibility for seeing projects through to completion.
• Previous responsibility as a technical lead or development manager as a consultant is highly desirable.
• Very comfortable dealing with code, batch scripts, databases, and servers.
Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and management skills.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.