IT Project Manager - Ageatia Global Solutions
Chicago, IL
About the Job
Role & Duties:
Expected Skills:
Qualification and Experience:
Additional preferred certification and experience:
- Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes)
- Lead projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, status reporting and closure
- Drive activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resource, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issue, dependency, vendor relationship and communications
- Collaborate with project and program leads to create overarching business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules and resources required
- Provides timely updates to the IT leads, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates
- Facilitate all teams and sub teams (IT, Vendors, Business) daily work including all the scheduled meetings
- Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely
- Remove the obstacles or impediments faced by the team in its work
- Mentor the team members to adopt truly Agile mindset, including ownership, self-management and empowerment
- Able to work after hours during critical project windows (UAT, PROD Deployments)
Expected Skills:
- Project management skills: create and execute project plans, proactively manage risks/issues, maintain compliance with project management processes, an eye for detail, independently maintain project documentation, drive follow-up on open actions etc.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills: Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation. Ability to drive productive conversations and team meetings. Active listening skills.
- Excellent People skills: a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflict, be able to work with cross-functional teams
- Very strong team player, able to foster teamwork, collaboration and a positive working environment to the project team.
- Analytical skills: ability to perceive and analyze problems, develop alternatives and recommend sound decisions
- Strong aptitude to learn and self-motivated
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding, and rapidly changing environment
- High degree of professionalism and integrity
- Recognize and deal appropriately with confidential and sensitive information
- High level of interpersonal skills to lead cross-functional teams. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation. High degree of professionalism and integrity. Analytical and creative ability where problems are extremely complex. Ability to understand and translate requirements. Committed to ensuring that IT enables its customers by taking responsibility for service and quality.
Qualification and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree
- 4-5+ years in IT project management
- Working experience with Agile tool sets Jira, Confluence etc
- Proven experience in using project management tools such as Smartsheets, Microsoft Project
Additional preferred certification and experience:
- Software Development background
- PMP certification
- Scrum Master certification
- Scrum master experience
- Knowledge of ITIL
- Knowledge of Change Management to ensure service adoption
Source : Ageatia Global Solutions