Technical Project Manager at Softworld Inc

Job Title: Technical Project Manager

Job Location: Waltham MA 02451 Remote

Onsite Requirements:

• Managed Services Experience
• PMP
• Technical Project Management

Job Description:

• As a senior IT project manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing large-scale IT projects within our organization.
• You will oversee all aspects of project planning, execution, and delivery to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet high-quality standards.

Responsibilities:

Project Planning and Management

• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and motivate globally distributed project team members on a proactive basis.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Conduct performance evaluations of team members and provide constructive feedback.

Resource Management

• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.

Financial Management

• Estimate the costs of all the resources, activities, and contingencies involved in the project, and align them with the available funds and the expected benefits.
• Track and monitor the actual spending and performance of the project against the planned budget.
• Report the budget status and progress to the stakeholders and sponsors regularly and transparently.

Risk Management

• Proactively manage changes in project scope, budget, identify potential risks, and devise contingency plans.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project lifecycle.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure that projects are completed within budget and on time.
• Evaluate the outcomes of the project as established during the planning phase.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems or a related field.
• MS degree preferred.

Experience

• At least 8 years in the role of project manager, including 4 years' experience with full life-cycle software development.
• An equivalent combination of education, training and experience that demonstrates required knowledge, skills and abilities may be considered.

Knowledge

• Must have thorough knowledge and understanding of process design, project estimation, Microsoft Project, as well as risk assessment and mitigation.

Abilities

• Ability to work across organizational boundaries to accomplish team goals as well as work within a close team environment, be self-motivated and adhere to project schedules and meet deadlines.
• Must be able to grasp complex solutions in a broad fashion and resolve issues and assignments utilizing logical thinking, process, and clear communication.
• Requires ability to handle simultaneously, multiple projects and deadlines.

Skills

• Conversant with a variety approaches and technologies used to build modern web and mobile applications.
• Examples:
  • Front-tier / User Interface - HTML, CSS, React
  • Middle-tier / Integrations - MuleSoft, BizTalk, Oracle ESB
  • Back-tier - databases - MS SQL Server, Oracle
  • Data movement - Informatica, ETL, ELT
  • Cloud - AWS, Azure
  • Reporting - Microsoft Reporting Services
  • Office - MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Office
  • Methodologies - SAFe, Scrum, Lean, XP, FDD, Waterfall

** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3^rd party subcontractors need not apply.

This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future. **