Description
Title: Sr. Project Manager
Duration: Contract- 6 months
Location: Atlanta, GA 30339
Responsibilities:
- Plans, directs and coordinates activities of departmental technology projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters
- Has overall responsibility for planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to technology projects for a given business unit
- Ensures that project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives
- Is responsible for managing the team that develops and carries out internal IT projects for assigned business units
- Monitors project activities, ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of the information, while providing consistency in content and "look and feel" across the enterprise
- Works closely with the assigned user community (and through business technologists) to determine how technology might assist in addressing its needs, and then translates these needs into system requirements and design specifications.
- Lead a team consisting of 6 to 20 people.
- Set and manage stakeholder expectations specific to the project.
- Facilitate team and client meetings effectively.
- Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized business solutions and presentations.
- Responsible for project and quality of delivery from original concept through final implementation.
- Oversee cross-functional projects and exhibits understanding of critical cross module integration points.
- Effectively communicate project expectations, goals and scope to the teams.
- Communicate project direction, approach, priorities, events and status to all project resources and stakeholders.
- Insure project deliverables are on time and on budget while meeting customer satisfaction expectations.
- Clearly understands project roles and definition of each team member in order to effectively manage the activities of the team.
- Maintain experience in tracking and managing projects using MS Project or similar PM software.
- Implement software development life cycle procedures for team members, if not already in place.
- Mitigate project risks and manages issues.
- Manage project scope and change.
- Accurately forecast, report, and manage project costs (budget). Effectively establish and use budget tracking approach and metrics that accurately tracks team productivity and earned value.
- Provide reliable top-down and bottom-up estimates as is necessary.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of IT Project Management experience
- Active PMP certification
- Experience with software development life-cycles (SDLC)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, engineering or a related discipline with an information technology focus; M.B.A. degree or equivalent related project management experience desirable.
Please contact John Wagner at:
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From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about Synergis, please visit the company website.
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