Software Technical Project Lead cum Manager

About Helix International

Helix International is an enterprise software platform and consulting organization headquartered in the US with 7 global offices, 90 global employees, 70 active clients, and growing quickly. Helix International provides big data and enterprise content management and migration solutions for hundreds of companies in the finance, insurance, healthcare, retail, and media industries. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and include banks, hospitals, and government organizations.

At the core of our offering is our proprietary MARS (Massive Archival Retrieval System) software platform, a collection of more than 70 powerful proprietary enterprise programs, APIs, and source extractors built on better than three decades of extensive industry experience and deep product knowledge. MARS automates and streamlines the detection, extraction, normalization, organization, transformation, and migration of hundreds of petabytes of data from across thousands of sources. By leveraging AI and ML technologies, MARS is able to convert unstructured data into new structured documents and reports, to and from any source and destination, and to and from any format, including proprietary filetypes, print streams, database outputs, and COLD outputs.

Helix International is IBM’s Premium Partner of choice for ECM, ETL, and ESB with more than 500 projects completed and a 100% success rate and has been leading the Enterprise Content Management industry for more than 30 years.

Company Website: http://www.helix-int.com/

About the Position

As a Technical Project Lead cum Consultant, you will be required to see all aspects of the project using your technical acumen and architectural skills for planning, monitoring and controlling processes. Solid understanding on design and development of Content (Output Systemes systems), ability communicate technically with the customer and the team members. Provide day-to-day management of system or solution projects including risk management, stakeholder communications, and interdependencies between projects or programs. A candidate would be performing a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, coordinating all resources, setting deadlines, understanding of the technical intricacies, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring, summarizing and communicating the progress of the project. Manage project implementations and/or client conversions and utilize technical programming and domain expertise to overcome project roadblocks for on-time delivery. Note this is not a pm role but a very stong technical person to support a PM who has knowledge of CMOD and CA view retirement projects. If skills should be prioritized they should be priortized upon Z, CMOD and CA view.

Responsibilities and Duties

· Project initiation and kick off, Runs complex projects/programs from design and development to production. Responsible to start and complete projects on a scheduled basis, inclined to maintain highest standard of quality.

· Managing the project design and architecture, and implementation of the upgraded systems

· Overseeing all technical aspects of the projects, team’s technical debt, owning the technical challenges till they are completed/cleared. Overseeing all the parts of the migration process and integration of various systems. Adept at creating architecural diagrams with z and distributed components for CA view and CMOD with broad understanding of the syets relying upon them

· Benchmarking, measuring performances of the systems.

· Interaction with the clients for requirement gathering and analysis. Projecting effort & cost estimation.

· Develop technical blueprints and manage technical risks/issues.

· Prepare detailed project plan, time and date estimation and schedule for delivery, goals and milestones.

· Work on Company MARS Migration tools and guide the team to make the tool suitable for each customer.

· Experience as a solutions architect, enterprise architect or in an architect consulting delivery role.

· Analyzing scope of work, project sequencing, resource planning, managing team, time estimation, resolving conflicts, scheduling meetings, cost estimation, are a set of responsibilities.

· Proactively highlight risks and mitigate the same. Perform risk management, creating strategies for risk management and contingency planning.

· Ability to understand business issues and to clearly explain technical alternatives to senior business decision makers.

· Project monitoring & control including cost monitoring and taking proactive action to ensure projects are adhering to timelines set.

· Project Status reporting to various internal & external stakeholders (daily, weekly, monthly).

· Manage relationship with client & manage client expectation.

· Ensure adherence to contractual terms.

· Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques, Performs team assessments and evaluations.

· Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

· Support in pre-sale activities.

· Continually learn industry trends (especially from a technical perspective) to apply to project implementation and to be seen as an industry expert both with internal team and clients.

· Flexibility to work on the week ends and working on early morning and late evening hand over calls as the team is working in various time zones to ensure people and time zone are leveraged efficiently.

· Presence in the every sunday morning PMO meeting is a must to present the project status

· Managing project milestones without any delay. Being proactive in communication and ensuring prompt completion.

Required Experience and Qualifications:

· More than 5 years of experience in Technical Project Management working with international customer teams and technical teams to define, analyze and work through requirements definition, technical design, implementation, builds, and deployment.

· Should have experience in Enterprise Content Management Products.

· Possess a balance of technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills that helps in analyze situations and decision making along with excellent judgment. The ability to deliver in short tenures and to determine priorities and execute accordingly.

· Experience in client relationship management, project co-ordination and delivery management in an onsite-offshore model.

· Provide leadership to the team by keeping the team members motivated, resolving conflicts and making decisions for the team members along with Ability to drive multiple projects with efficient collaboration.

· Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.

· High degree of proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and presentations, especially MS Project, PowerPoint and Excel.

· Knowledge of CMMi SDLC process is essential.

· Either one of Industry Certifications such as Prince2, PMP, SCRUM Master Certification is a must.

Skills

Mainframe/Java/.Net/C/C /Linux

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $78,901.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health insurance

Application Question(s):

• How many years experience do you have with Enterprise Content Management Products?
• How many years experience do you have as a solutions architect, enterprise architect or in an architect consulting delivery role?

Location:

• Grand Rapids, MI 49525 (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $78,901