IT Project Manager

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Description

The Project Manager/Business Analyst will be responsible for the overall success of a project, requirements definition, and quality assurance activities.

Project Management responsibilities include time and resource management, financial planning, scope management, issue and risk management, project execution. This person plans, directs, and monitors the work produced by the team(s). He or she is responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, including general, ongoing communications, negotiation of scope and schedule changes, key risks, issue resolution, and ongoing progress reporting.

As a Business Analyst, they serve as a liaison between functional users and technical staff in the development or modification of typically complex information systems. He or she leads in definition of user business requirements, assures requirements are appropriately addressed in application implementation, and redefines business processes to maximize application usage as required. Responsibilities include creating and executing test plans, performing hands-on functional testing, and leading user acceptance testing. This position will also provide ongoing user support, including troubleshooting and resolution of more complex system issues.

The Business Analyst/Project Manager shapes client expectations, and manages contracts and scope related to the project. This person must have a broad knowledge of industry best practices and be able to proactively identify potential project risks in order to advise and consult with clients on risk identification, analysis, and mitigation strategies.

Job Requirements:

  • 8-10 years job-related experience
  • Experience working with Project Management software
  • Experience using EVM
  • Strong working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Process, including iterative and Waterfall methods
  • Excellent organizational experience, professionalism, and time management skills
  • Effective analytical and presentation skills
  • Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills; ability to tailor communication to different audiences, such as management, stakeholders, users, SMEs, developers, and others
  • Ability to lead others to articulate additional possibly hidden needs
  • Ability to communicate and work effectively with both functional area experts and technical team members
  • Strong process analysis and documentation skills; experience on projects to develop workflow-based enterprise software
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently
  • Experience being both a PM and BA on the same project
  • Ability to manage work on multiple projects with competing priorities
  • Advanced skills in data organization and analysis, problem solving, systems documentation
  • Knowledge of SQL, database, and relational data models
  • Experience overseeing user acceptance testing and providing test cases
  • Experience working with web application development teams who use technologies such as Drupal and Java
  • Experience in enterprise systems integration
  • Experience or knowledge in one or more technical solutions/architectures such as web services, portals, business process modelling, UI technologies like AJAX, relational databases, Business Intelligence (coding experience not required)

Sample Projects:

  • This position will be primarily responsible for implementing and supporting a suite of Project Management tools for mission critical Research and Development projects. Stakeholders will include GTRI's PMO, Lab Directors, Senior Management, and Project Directors.
  • Other projects supporting researchers and staff internally at GTRI as well as for the entire campus, include proposal management, compliance tools, researcher dashboards, talent management software, and financial applications
  • Project types include in-house Java development, web development, Cognos reports, implementation and support of third party software, enterprise systems integration, as well as database and systems infrastructure projects.

Education:

A Bachelor's degree is required: Preferred degree in Business, Accounting, or IT-related field

Project Management Training

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

This position is more on PM knowledge and experience, particularly with different PM software. This position will be primarily responsible for implementing and supporting a suite of Project Management tools for mission critical Research and Development projects. Stakeholders will include GTRI's PMO, Lab Directors, Senior Management, and Project Directors.

Start date
n.a
From
ESG Consulting
Published at
18.01.2017
Project ID:
1270762
Contract type
Freelance
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