Description
The position, assigned to the Project Management Office, will direct and coordinate project activities, including but not limited to:
- Schedule development and maintenance
- Resource tracking
- Risk management
- Communications management
- Reporting
- Quality management
- Vendor management
Primary duties will be to manage all aspects of the project following PMI best practices and the Georgia Department of Labor Project Management Methodology. Successful candidates will be accomplished project managers who have directed and successfully managed, from start to finish, complex, technology projects with aggressive timelines.
Required Skills:
- Experience managing technology projects in an enterprise data warehouse/business intelligence application development environment. Experience needs to include data integration/ETL and data warehousing design and implementation, data mapping, ETL development and testing.
- Documented recent experience in:
- Business requirements gathering.
- Business process documentation.
- full Systems Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies
- Project Management Certification (PMP) or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum.
- Candidates must have managed at least two full life cycle projects (initiation through deployment/warranty) with project teams in excess of 10 team members, and must have had FULL end-to-end accountability for the project management role. Demonstrated experience managing IT projects that impact across the enterprise -Experience must be related to software application development and implementation. Experience collaborating with vendor partners in the delivery of project solutions required.
- Must have experience managing vendor partners including integrated schedules, contract and SOW management, deliverables and milestone acceptance and signoff.
- Well-developed communication skills - oral, written, listening. Good analytical and negotiation skills, and close attention to detail.
- Must have excellent leadership, interpersonal, and motivation skills.
- Expert level knowledge of standard PM tools (MS Project Professional, Sharepoint, Visio, MS Office Suite)
Preferred Skills:
- Advanced degree from an accredited college or university.
- ITIL certification
Teradata certification