Project Manager - Elegant Enterprise-Wide Solutions : Job Details

About this Position:

Job Title: Project Manager

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop, clarify and manage the scope of the project, define contract deliverables and achieve targeted outcomes.
• Ensure project requirements are achieved in a timely fashion and within budget guidelines.
• Assemble project team, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
• Determine project costs/ensure delivery on time and within budgetary guidelines.
• Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
• Perform cost/benefit analysis of actions and initiatives.
• Schedule meetings and document meeting minutes.
• Follow the Project Management practice and prescribed SDLC.
• Prepare status reports, status summaries and dashboards for presentation to mid and senior level management.
• Provide support, coaching and mentoring on project management best practices, as requested for project coordinator associates.

Skills/experience:

Required:

• Demonstrate leadership qualities such as conflict/issue resolution, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager on a program team and can ensure a successful project lifecycle
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership of departments and agencies participating in this project.
• Organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from department and agencies participating in this effort
• Demonstrate experience and relevant expertise in the design and building of distributed and enterprise solutions
• Plan, organize and direct the work activities of outside consultants and/or systems analysis and programming personnel assigned on a team.
• Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials, outside consultants and vendors.
• Demonstrate proficiency with the principles of project management, systems delivery life cycle, and budgeting.
• Concepts and applications of servers, storage, mainframes, monitoring, ITIL, metrics and performance management, disaster recovery, data center facilities management, managed services, and cloud computing.
• IT project management best practice, principles and techniques. (PMBOK)

Highly Desired/Preferred:

• Completion of a Bachelors degree program at an accredited college or university with a major course work in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years Project Management experience managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects
• 4-6 years of applicable business experience
• PMP certification or Master's Certificate in Project Management preferred.

Note: For H-1B and OPT cases, we are seeking candidates from recognised organizations.

No phone calls please.