Project Manager (IT Development and Management)

Delan Associates is looking for ITS professionals Project Manager for our client located in the New York City area.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

Location: Must live in the New York City area

Contract Period of Performance: 1-3 years long (1 year with (two) additional years to renew)

Overview:

The company ITS is a full-service provider of information technology services. ITS provides The company with centralized network services that will encompass, but will not be limited to, systems development / design, security analysis, information processing, telecommunications and data center support services, data communications infrastructure, platform hosting, an e-mail system, internet and intranet access data security and exchange, desktop/client support, help desk, project management, applications development and quality assurance.

The company’s hardware and software platforms include, but are not limited to, IBM and UNISYS mainframe, Microsoft Windows client servers and SUN/UNIX.

ITS requires assignments to be completed within a specific time frame provided by ITS during normal work hours. The consultants assigned to these positions may be asked to work off-hours, weekends, or holidays. ITS estimates the various assignments associated with a position will be worked simultaneously and will be required over the life of the contract.

PROJECT NAME: IT Development and Management

HRA JOB TITLE: Project Manager

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The company has a constant increased need for the provision of full systems life cycle applications development on various computer platforms, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, employment/work engagement services, claims systems, etc., that are critical to the operation and functioning of company programs, requiring periodic refinements to maintain the applications at optimum service levels. Having a project portfolio which properly reflects the user’s business needs and company’s’ workload is crucial. Therefore, there is a need for IT consulting resources for the expanding responsibilities.

Tasks & Duties

• Develop comprehensive project management plans
• Lead the planning and implementation of project
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Define project tasks and resource requirements
• Track project deliverables using appropriate tools
• Provide management reporting and information dissemination
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
• Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
• Work directly with business stakeholders, clients, designers, developers, and engineers to coordinate the building of applications to spec and on time
• Provide project quality assurance
• Develop quality assurance metrics to measure outputs
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs

• Ensure all projects changes meets the developed quality assurance metrics before it is released to the user community

Required Skills

• Minimum 4 Years Experience in overseeing large scaled, complex projects, comprised of a number of deliverables and/or number of phases.
• Minimum 4 Years Experience with acting as Issuing Entity regarding project status, meetings, reporting requirements, scope changes.
• Minimum 4 Years Experience with management of timeline making sure that the tasks are performed as per scheduled date as per project plan.
• Minimum 4 Years Experience in Business Analysis and Project Management Techniques, SCRUM and Agile Development Methodologies and Sprint Delivery.