Project Manager - Contract to Hire must be able to work onsite weekly.Overview
The Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals. This includes managing resources and coordinating the efforts of team members, business stakeholders, and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan, and within defined timelines and budget.
The Project Manager will direct multiple projects involving one or more project teams utilizing Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, or Hybrid methodologies. They are responsible for the adoption and adaption of project management methodologies based on the context of the project and selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. The project manager will also define the projects objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. Responsible for preparing and communicating status reports on the health of the project.
Core Responsibilities
- Define, document and successfully complete of projects.
- Adopt and adapt project management methods and tools, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
- Ensure that effective project control, change control, risk management, design, development, and testing processes are maintained.
- Monitor and control resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget, and manage expectations of all project stakeholders.
- Align project objectives with company goals, and make sure project team is clear on objectives.
- Work with Solution Managers to staff initiatives with appropriate skill sets.
- Communicate project status, progress and issues effectively and appropriately, including periodic report creation and distribution.
- Drive vendor selection activities, using established RFP process.
- May be assigned Statement of Work (SOW) activities as appropriate.
- Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching that enables the team to excel at Agile development.
- Manage sprint velocity-related metrics and goals.
- Run scrum ceremonies, e.g., daily huddles, backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives to actively manage risks and external dependencies.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution while promoting joint accountability for results and problem solving.
- Assist Product Owners to shape the product road-map and vision.
- Manage multiple projects and multiple types of projects and or methodologies simultaneously.
Skills Qualifications
Required:
- Expertise in project management methodologies and techniques with proven teamwork and influential skills including Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, and Hybrid methodologies.
- Documented ability to contain project scope, and act as owner for all project outcomes.
- Practical experience in managing agile development projects.
- Experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming and Automated Testing.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Persuasive, encouraging and motivating.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients and other departments.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Experience working in highly fast paced team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Experience implementing technology projects.
- Effectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goals.
- Ability to effectively resolve conflicts.
- On-Call and/or after-hours work required System/Technical Knowledge:
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
- Experience with PPM and Agile tools such as Confluence, Clarity, Wrike, JIRA, Rally etc.,
- Basic Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIs.
Education
Required:
- BA or BS in Business, Project Management, Computer Science, or another business-related field.
- 5 or more years of project management experience including at least 2 years working with Agile.
Preferred:
- PMP Certification, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certifications preferred.
Physical Demands
Must be able to remain in a stationary position for a majority of the workday.For more information please contact Vijay Karney at (703) ###-#### or ...@itechsolutions.com
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.
iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.