Title - Project Manager

Location – Alpharetta GA

Duration - 12 Months contract position

Contract to hire role

Client Note :

onsite

Agile and Waterfall experience

Many projects coming up:

Cyber enhancement, product enhancements, bill/pay, regulatory compliance, tech refresh, windows upgrades, SQL upgrades

Experience managing App Dev and infrastructure. 50/50

Not a technical manager

Know how to manage 10 plus projects at a time.

Work with risk, issues, forecasts, dependents

Work with 5- 10 delivery teams

Main Skills: Agile, Jira, Clarity

The Agile Project Manager exemplifies strong initiative and management skills –

• Ensures project methodologies, project delivery processes, and implementation management processes are followed. This includes managing and driving:

o Project Schedule

o Risk and Issue Management

o Scope Change Management

• Manages the project budget. This includes understanding and validating estimates, cost variance tracking, and managing project resources effectively.

• Provides Project/Program status i.e., Mission Critical Program Updates (weekly meeting) and Clarity Reporting.

• Provides clear and concise project communication - both written and verbal.

• Ensures adherence to and proper organization usage of project/program management practices in alignment with an agile methodology implementation.

• Facilitates/manages project communications and stakeholder, client, and project team expectations.

• Report on KPIs related to pipeline and execution portfolios, financials, and performance measures.

• Support Backlog & Capacity Management through the management of new project flow into development.

• Create and maintain project & capacity forecasting including allocations and variance.

• Maintain Clarity (PPM tool), JIRA Management and publish appropriate reports to create transparency.

What you will need to have:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, PMP and/or CSM certification preferred.

• 5 to 7 years of progressive technology project management experience, including management of major application development projects, in a large operating environment.

• Proficient in Agile Methodology

• Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction

• Ability to handle multiple projects and assignments (10-20 Projects simultaneously).

• Meeting Management – able to effectively prepare, conduct, participate in and follow up on business meetings.

• Planning – Demonstrates the ability to identify project interdependencies and synergies; to identify alternatives; make contingency plans and develop action plans to implement successfully.

• Organizational Skills – Demonstrates the capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities and to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

• Critical Thinking – able to demonstrate critical thinking, providing options and recommendations relating to resolving issues, mitigating risks, and resolving escalated items.

• Risk Management – knowledge of process, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling and organization’s exposure (assets, liabilities, reputation, non-compliance, etc.)

• Leadership – Demonstrates the ability to influence others and drive effective change by taking control of difficult situations, providing clear, concise direction to team members, and positively influencing others.