SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The project manager will be responsible for assisting in delivering a large scale, complex, enterprise-wide project on time, and on budget.
• This role relies on project management experience, technical experience, and sound judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• To successfully deliver this project, the following duties will be required:
• Establish and foster relationships with assigned internal clients/stakeholders.
• Understand clients' business process to better guide them on project technology decisions.
• As required, evaluate whether any internal applications or products can meet client's IT need and conduct space market research to evaluate available COTS solutions.
• Recommend a best fit IT solution.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as a member of a team
• Prepare a plan document defining the project schedule and budget, project team framework and scope, highlighting the milestones and the execution strategy.
• Provide vendor management for large projects from start to completion of project
•  Oversee the Business Analysis process.
• Develop rollout plan and oversee deployment into production, including developing a support plan.
• Execution of project from start to finish and meet with key stakeholder to understand current operations
• Provide guidance on best solution to streamline or process re-engineer their current operations
• Conduct JAD sessions or workshops with business users to elicit information regarding their need and requirements for existing or new systems
• Assist in the development of functional requirement documents
• Maintain and update the project schedule on a regular basis.
• Conduct status meetings. Assure proper articulation and reporting of project status to stakeholders and executive management.
• Develop professional and consistent meeting minutes that support consensus and alignment across stakeholders
• Create Presentations and Conduct Demos of systems/applications for projects and Stakeholders.
• Work in coordination with an existing PM on an in-flight project

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in application and network deployment
• Experience in leading multi-departmental meetings
• 8+ years of experience in a role as IT project manager leading complex, enterprise-wide technical and/or business initiatives.
• 8+ years of experience with managing SDLC Waterfall and/or Agile methodology projects.
• 8+ years of experience in creating project management artifacts (project charter, project plan, timelines (MS Project software), requirements documents, project and resource planning, deployment plans, support plans, conversion plans.
• 8+ years in gathering requirements, business analysis, use cases and creating functional requirements documents.
• 4+ years of experience managing web-based applications especially .NET and Java web based solutions using SQL Server 2008 and above
• Experience working on Cloud Applications
• Knowledge of Oracle NMS, Oracle OUA, or Exadata a plus