Project Manager - SGA Inc.

Schaumburg, IL 60173

About the Job

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Project Manager for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Schaumburg, IL. Client is unable to sponsor work visas at this time or work in layers.

Responsibilities :

The department is responsible for managing the execution of small to midsize business managed technology projects and business projects including AML/KYC, sanctions, transformation, scoring, decisioning, data assets, analytics, process engineering, automation, technology and new partner launches.
Works with other department leaders from Risk, Marketing, Regulatory, Technology, Collections, Modeling, Compliance, Financial Crimes and corporate teams to define, prioritize, and execute projects and programs.
Partner with other internal firm departments to ensure flawless and comprehensive execution of projects.
Experience in full life cycle development of applications and Project Management to take projects through Delivery with proven ability to achieve results.
Strong knowledge on several project management methodologies like Waterfall, Agile and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD).
Partner with multiple Businesses and cross functional teams, RSPD Delivery, IT, CATE and third-party vendors to plan, track and coordinate the integration and delivery of business managed technology and business projects that meet the growing business needs, evolving technologies and emerging regulatory requirements.
Comfortable driving projects for current technologies like Drools, Java/J2EE, UNIX, SAS and databases like Oracle and Web Services like SOAP and REST API's. Should be forward compatible and be able to drive projects with evolving technologies and current trends like Cloud AWS, RedHat BPMS, Big Data Implementations and Analytics tools like Tableau, QlikView etc.
Develop end-to-end delivery plans and align specific tasks/deliverables from various integration teams and with stakeholders to ensure delivery plans meet business requirements.
Leverage strong business, technical and interpersonal skills to manage expectations, and to proactively identify and mitigate project risks.
Ability to actively manage multiple projects and responsible for risk and issue management, reporting on project metrics.
Develop documentation and presentation material to communicate program/project status and plans to Stakeholders to keep them up to date on project status and issues.
Serve as Scrum Master for Agile project teams with responsibilities including facilitating Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
Ability to function as a team member and work with many different stakeholders with strong negotiation and influencing skills.

Required Skills:

Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Professional 5+ years relevant working experience as a Project Manager
Expertise in at least one of the project management methodologies like Waterfall or agile etc.
Expertise with project management tools such as MS Project, Visio, Excel, JIRA, SharePoint, etc.
Excellent oral and written commercial communications skills.
Demonstrated impact in the following areas:
- Using a variety of influencing tactics to drive results.
- Ability to work cross-functionally both within the business and across businesses to achieve outcomes.
- Creative problem-solving
- High degree of intellectual curiosity – motivated by having impact.
- Ability to work in a matrix organization and manage work across geographically dispersed teams with varying skills and experiences.
- Strong operational risk management and control mindset.
- "Can-do” attitude – willingness to "roll up the sleeves” Ability to flex and take on special projects as needed.

Preferred Skills:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering discipline is a plus.

Source : SGA Inc.