Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Project Manager on a long-term contract basis.

Job ID 80413

Work Location:

Jacksonville, FL

Summary:

The Project Manager has responsibility for quality, timeliness and comprehensiveness of delivery of end results with shared responsibility for planning, reporting and budgets. They may take a lead role for an assigned project team(s) through direction of responsibilities. The role will oversee and support program/project management in a governance capacity, managing a backlog of tasks to implement effective governance and SDLC process.

Responsibilities:

• Manages or supports a portfolio of assigned projects with day-to-day project management, execution, coordination with internal business partners, creating efficiencies and helping with the delivery of high-quality projects.
• Collaborates with multiple teams to drive results Develops and implements methods to ensure project requirements are clearly understood, document and delivered to.
• Coordinates with the project team, internal and external partners, to detail out the plan including all elements required for successful delivery.
• Create and maintain project plans and/or backlogs
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made that impact projects.

Required Skills:

• 5-7 years’ experience managing large scale projects or programs with a range of stakeholders, budgets and functionality, simultaneously with limited supervision and guidance.
• Familiar with Agile, Project Management, Development and Delivery Lifecycles
• Comfortable working in non-traditional project structure, overseeing a backlog of outcomes and deliverables outside the typical project management lifecycle
• Excellent communication and presentation skills - verbal and written. Must have proficiency in spoken and written English. Experience creating executive level material and status
• Strong familiarity with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
• Able to coordinate multiple teams with interconnected backlogs
• Technical writing experience including the creation of training and job aids
• Familiarity with running
• Familiar with IT development and architecture processes

Preferred Skills:

• Familiar with managing projects with an IT governance focus; implementing IT governance initiatives
• Familiar with data management and governance
• Familiar with Development and Testing / QA processes
• Familiar with Process Improvement, Process Automation and Lean Management processes