The primary purpose of the Project Manager role is to lead the successful delivery of software development releases including, but not limited to, major projects, medium-sized system enhancements, and regular support patches/fixes. The Project Manager must accomplish this with well-coordinated stakeholder management, and within scope, to a high degree of quality, and within time and cost constraints.

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze project proposals to assess project timeline, budget, and necessary activities to achieve desired results.
• Identify and schedule deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project lifecycle to ensure timelines are met.
• Establish work and staffing plans for project activities, iterations, or phases, and arrange for project assignment.
• Design and implement project communication plans.
• Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.
• Create project documentation using input from cross-functional teams, including but not limited to Project Charters, detailed functional requirements, and project plans.
• Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of information while providing consistency in content and form across the organization.
• Ensure that project goals are aligned with business objectives.
• Control scope to limit scope creep and drive change control through proper channels if scope adjustments are necessary.
• Ensure that project goals are achieved.
• Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget.
• Ensure project quality by overseeing project QA planning and execution.
• Ensure project delivery by overseeing project UAT planning and execution.
• Create weekly status reports modify schedules or plans as required.
• Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
• Coordinate and work with the following primary stakeholders:
  • Project team/staff (including designated users or customers)
  • Subject matter experts
  • Business analysts
  • Quality Assurance (QA) testers
  • IT Architects, Developers

Qualifications:

• Experience in leading projects.
• Experience in leading teams.
• Strong “soft skills” or “people skills.”
• Ability to lead and motivate others, empathize, and know personality types.
• Familiarity with both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
• Board management experience using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.
• Knowledge of project-planning tools such as MS Project.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
• Well-developed time management skills with a strong ability to multitask.
• Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial, and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
• The ability to ask questions and determine downstream implications of project decisions.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises use them to drive digital business.
• Ability to develop and execute a project resource plan that ensures that the right people are in the right place doing the right things at the right time.
• Understands the business benefits of a project and connects project objectives to broader organizational goals.
• Incorporates end-user feedback appropriately to refine scope and address shortcomings throughout the life cycle.
• Takes responsibility for project success and project problems.
• Determines the effect of organizational changes on project teams, anticipating associated challenges and creating workable solutions for them.