Technology Partners is currently seeking a talented Senior Project Manager (148406). Do you have experience with Agile and Jira? Let us help you make your next big career move a reality!
What You Will Be Doing:
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and monitoring activities of one or more project teams involved in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of IT initiatives. This position collaborates with others to define project scope and objectives, identifies required skills and resources for project team, develops detailed works plans, and provides project status. The Senior Project Manager also conducts interim and post-project reviews and conducts quality assurance audits. In addition, this position anticipates and identifies project issues and risks, recommends solutions, and works with senior management to implement solutions. The Senior Project Manager will work with the leadership team to shape the standards and processes of the rapidly growing company business.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Minimum of 6 years project management experience preferably in Application Development
- Proficient knowledge in project management and project planning
- Proficient knowledge in gathering and documentation of business requirements
- Proficient knowledge of requirements traceability through the development life cycle
- Experience with overseeing and directing testing efforts is a plus
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Solid grasp of basic and many advanced project management principles
- In-depth knowledge of project management tools and methodologies
- Familiarity with the concept of project portfolio management
- Ability to lead the definition of project scope, goals, objectives and strategies
- Ability to develop project work plans, project charters, baselines, and tracking documents
- Ability to control project scope and budget
- Ability to modify work plans to reflect approved scope changes
- Ability to identify the required skills and resource requirements for project teams
- Ability to identify and request resources and determine time requirements
- Ability to identify and coordinate overall project and resource dependencies
- Ability to manage and track change requests and associated task estimates
- Ability to identify project issues and risks
- Ability to recommend solutions
- Ability to work with senior management to implement solutions
- Ability to create status reports for project sponsors and IT end-users that include key indicators of project progress, risk, and success
- Ability to conduct weekly project/program issues/status meetings; document and distribute results
- Ability to manage the integration of vendor tasks including tracking and reviewing vendor deliverables
- Experience managing projects and situations in a matrix resource environment
- Excellent personal management skills emphasizing time management, organization, and attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiations skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interface with all levels of employees on both the IT and business teams
- Excellent meeting participation and facilitation skills; including the ability to keep meetings focused, manage conflict, and summarize meeting highlights and tasks.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to provide sponsorship at this time or accept candidates who would require a corp-to-corp agreement.
If this position sounds like you, WE SHOULD TALK!
We realize our people are our most valuable asset, that is why we offer the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Long and Short-Term disability
- Life insurance
- Direct deposit
- Referral program
Your better future is ready, and we want to put the right tools in your hands to get you there. Let’s go!
Keywords: Agile, Jira, Waterfall, Project Management
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Technology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Technology Partners does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal civil rights laws.
All offers of employment at Technology Partners are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and drug screening that meet corresponding laws and regulations at the city, state and federal level.
