Lead Tableau Data Analyst

Project Manager

Qualification:

Responsibility:

Project Planning and Setup:

• Understand project scope.

• Based on the analysis of the type of the project provide inputs on project methodology to senior stakeholders (Project Manager / Architects etc).

• Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs on activities/ tasks, task level estimates, schedule, dependencies, risks etc.

• Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs to testing strategy, configuration, deployment, hardware/software requirement etc.

• Analyze in detail resources required for every phase, conduct estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities, prepare resource and development plan or provide inputs and review with PM.

• Participate in KT sessions conducted by customer/ other business teams.

Requirement Understanding and Analysis:

• Along with the Business Analyst, gather requirements (functional and nonfunctional) from customer.

• Analyze requirements for feasibility with regards to testing and implementation.

• Provide inputs for requirements prioritization.

• Debrief team on the requirements gathered and seek feedback.

• Participate in client calls and seek clarifications if any.

• Create and maintain requirements traceability matrix along with BA.

• Provide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenarios.

• Work with administrators to setup security requirements.

Design:

• Understand various functional and non functional requirements and HLD in order to provide inputs to create LLD and review.

• Recommend make/ buy or alternate solutions.

• Provide inputs in designing end to end solution from a technical perspective.

• Create code development checklist.

• Prepare UI specifications / mock ups for reports / dashboards and provide guidance to team members/ designers for creating data mapping documents or unit documents for ETL & BI.

• Provide inputs to data modeling based on the project understanding.

• Walkthrough the design along with PM to the customer and coordinate to seek signoff on design and other artifacts.

Coding:

• Guide team in coding as per design.

• Define the Development framework, reusable templates based on the organization repository and past experience.

• Allocate modules to developers for coding.

• Provide inputs for setting up development environment.

• Provide guidance to developers and set standards.

• Review pseudo codes written by developers and provide a go ahead for code development.

• Review final codes written by developers on adherence to standards/functionality and approve for testing.

• Monitor code merge to build environment and provide consolidated feedback to design.

Testing Management:

• Provide inputs to testing strategy / approach at a high level.

• Review test cases written by team.

• In case of small projects, review/ guide for SIT and other testing.

• Provide support for development of unit/ integration test cases as required.

• Check if peer review is completed at each step of test execution.

• Monitor defects raised and closed.

• Conduct root cause analysis to avoid repetition of defects.

• Follow up with team assigned for rework on code defects and close the same.

• Attend QA audits as and when required.

Deployment:

• Setup instructions.

• Understand release and deployment environment and provide inputs for release/deployments plan.

• Resolve issues that arise during project deployment/ closure.

• Check that all action items mentioned in the deployment checklist have been completed.

• Monitor and review smoke testing, mock runs.

Project Execution Monitoring & closure (Support to Project Management activities):

• Provide status inputs to the project manager.

• Support Project Manager in creating a weekly status report including tasks achieved in the week and plan for next week.

• Provide guidance to team through SDLC.

• Track metrics wrt plan and monitor the same.

• Collect and present metrics (utilization, time spent on each activity / team etc) to the Project Manager.

• In case of change in the project, support in creating a first level impact analysis.

• Support project manager in gathering all documents required for audits and maintain them regularly.

Service Support and Maintenance:

• Create transition plan.

• provide transition walkthrough to the maintenance team.

Stakeholder Management:

• Understand internal stakeholders (Account Manager, Project Managers etc) and client expectations.

• Follow through on commitments, achieve timely resolution of issues.

Knowledge Management:

• Provide guidance to team members to maintain all documentation related to project.

• Create/ guide creation of knowledge articles on the problem, workaround solutions, best practices, new methodology implemented, retrospection report etc.

• Monitor and report the usage of knowledge articles.

People Management:

• Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.

• Conduct training or knowledge sharing sessions.

• Mentor team members in project teams with respect to product and domain skills on projects.

• Conduct technical, face to face interviews.

• Conduct / support managers in conducting appraisals for team members and share final ratings with the relevant stakeholders.

• Coordinate with the project/program manager in understanding how the employee can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.

Sales Support:

• Understand RFP.

• Participate in ongoing calls with the vertical team members.

• Provide references.

• Create relevant parts of the proposal and identify the case studies to be included.

• Provide time and resource estimates based on technical complexity and type of work done earlier.

• List out the challenges, dependencies, assumptions and timelines required for the project under guidance.

• Provide inputs on technology preference based on the project requirements.

• Review with the applicable vertical teams and incorporate their feedback.