We have urgent requirement of Project Manager | Onsite. Please revert if you are interested to apply.

Role: Project Manager

Location: Onsite- NYC, NY

Duration: Long term

Job description:

Person must live in White Plains (Tri-State) area as they will need to go into the office at this address: 123 Main St, White Plains, NY 10601

Project Overview

The Project Manager role will support capital projects. Responsibilities will include governance and reporting and providing information for effective management decision-making. Both waterfall and agile project delivery approaches may be used.

Job Functions & Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors, stakeholders, etc.
• Act as the bridge between the business and IT.
• Support the IT workstream and document projects (schedule, tasks, cost, changes/risks/issues) via IT PMO processes, procedures, and tools for assigned projects.
• Support all project workstreams as needed: initiation, planning, implementation, and closure for enhanced or new systems.
• Monitor the project schedule, budget, and deliverables.
• Track progress and review project tasks to ensure deadlines are met appropriately.
• Recognize and address problems or situations that may impact project delivery.
• Work cross-functionally to resolve issues, mitigate risks, and support change.
• Analyze decisions and actions for their alignment with the project's strategic direction.
• Work with senior management to escalate and resolve complex issues and risks.
• Support the project with realistic resource plans for all phases, including handover to production support.
• Assess the impact of technology requirements and constraints on project scope.
• Utilize project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) to drive technical solution delivery.
• Support solution delivery processes, procedures, and toolsets (DevOps, configuration management, change management) to deliver stable, hardened, and scalable solutions.
• Support project financials, including project budget and forecast.
• Ensure the solution and team follow IT ITIL/ITSM standards, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security standards/policies, and other NYPA technical standards.
• Fulfill requirements for the IT PMO and IT Governance process, including PPM Pro entries, project documentation standards, project reviews, and gate promotions as defined in the IT PMO Playbook.
• Work collaboratively with program teams, project teams, various IT teams, and related business unit staff to maintain thorough knowledge of project objectives.
• Promote and maintain communication between project team members and stakeholders, managing expectations.
• Prepare correspondence, presentations, and/or reports as required.
• Follow up on correspondence and outstanding requests for resolution.

Skills:

• Understand the software development process and experienced in IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) and IT solution delivery processes, procedures, and toolsets (DevOps, configuration management).
• Strong and tested project management skills including:

o Customer relationship management

o Sponsor expectation management

o Risk management

o Change Management

• Understand data governance, management, and quality.
• Organized, good communicator, deadline-driven, team builder, leader, planner, problem solver, and agile.
• Ability to promote and maintain a positive and inclusive work environment with project team members, co-workers, management, and vendors by behaving, collaborating, and communicating in a manner consistent with professional standards.
• Superior interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, and negotiating skills to ensure open communication across project teams.
• Ability to handle broad-based, often complex, communication.
• Ability to diffuse emotionally charged situations and use them to constructively build greater shared commitment to end goals.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes.
• Analyze decisions and actions for their support of the larger area's strategic direction.
• Work with senior management to resolve more complex problems.
• Outstanding record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology.

Work hours and location:

• Monday through Friday 7.5 hour work day with .5 hour unpaid lunch Paid for time worked only; there are no paid holidays, vacation, or sick days.
• Overtime is not permitted unless authorized in advanced.
• Contingent worker is required to badge in and out of the turnstiles located in the lobby for all daily entrances and exits.
• Candidate REQUIRED to be LOCAL to Tri-State area

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business discipline. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Project Management Certification is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of increasingly responsible experience, including experience successfully managing various projects
• Experience with application migrations especially SharePoint desired

Thanks & Regards

Avnish Rao

Technical Recruiter