Description
OVERVIEW:
Our client is a leading IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) firm that provides assessment, audit, security, and compliance solutions for over 1,000 customers throughout North America. The firm delivers these services to companies in the retail, financial services, government, healthcare, education, legal, and public electric utility industries. Their solutions are adapted to requirements under emerging data privacy legislation including PCI, GLBA, HIPAA, NERC CIP, SOX, and FISMA.
At this time, our client has an excellent contract opening for a Technical Project Manager to be responsible for the successful delivery and completion of Navis application implementations and related projects. The Technical Project Manager will effectively manage project work through all stages of the SDLC including solution scoping, estimating, planning, initiating, executing, controlling and closing processes. The successful candidate will be highly skilled at understanding the complex needs of the business, translating its priorities into technical project plans, and orchestrating the successful execution of the work to the specified timelines on a consistent basis.
Position Deliverables:- Scope the project work through discovery of business requirements, non-functional requirements and translation to technical work effort, SDLC project plans and work breakdown scheduling.
- Effectively execute and control the project work through proactive risk identification, mitigation and issues management.
- Create project documentation and artifacts as needed to support the SDLC implementation methodology or documentation requirements.
- Manage the overall project coordination, including managing scheduling, assigning tasks, motivating resources and resolving problems.
- Provide consistent and concise verbal and written communications to project stakeholders including project performance reporting, milestones reporting, status reporting, issues and risks management reporting and quality reporting on a regular basis.
- Facilitate the creation of deployment approach, training plan, and supporting operational needs.
- Work to create repeatable implementation plans with a focus on reduction of costs associated with implementation and methodologies that are highly effective.
- Bachelors Degree in Business or related field is required. MBA or related graduate level degree preferred
- 10+ years of overall proven success in the high tech industry
- 5+years of recent/current Enterprise Project Management experience with full life cycle involvement in web application software development projects (.NET)
- 5 years in enterprise software application development project management work either with a software vendor, professional services consulting firm or IT project management organization
- IT Security experience preferred
- PMI/PMP certification highly desired
- Excellent and thorough knowledge of the SDLC process and implementation methodologies best suited for web application development
- Proven skills and ability in scoping, planning, executing and controlling technical project work
- Demonstrated managerial skills and ability to structure and lead teams successfully through the full life cycle of software solution implementation projects
- Strong working knowledge of .NET application architectures
- Strong technical understanding of web application architectures through hands-on application development, technical architect experience or demonstrated technical project management
- Demonstrated ability and skill with requirements analysis, process analysis, process modelling, documenting workflows and developing technical specifications for software development
- Strong communication skills and ability to communicate succinctly and instill confidence with internal stakeholders and the company's customers
- Exceptional writing skills and reporting capabilities
This is estimated to be a 6 month contract position.