Job Title: Project Manager (AI)

Assignment Length: Long Term Contract

Project City and State: Hybrid in Dallas, TX; Florham Park, NJ; Garden City, NY; Houston, TX; Lubbock, TX; New York, NY; Purchase, NY

Are you a Project Manager with extensive experience managing application projects and mid sized to large IT integration projects and strong experience with Waterfall.

If so, check out this job!

Vertex is a US-based tech company with 25 years experience in Microsoft, Salesforce, BI, AI, and Cloud Computing. We have earned longstanding client relationships as trusted, long-term partners. Every day we inspire, innovate, and implement solutions that solve complex business problems using creativity and technologies that drive results.

What can you expect?

Professional recruiters with vast industry knowledge

Expert credentialing

No-hassle onboarding

What s in it for you?

An assignment that uses your skills

Opportunities to advance your career.

Competitive compensation

Great work environment

Role Responsibilities:

Perform project management duties for complex IT projects, in accordance with PMLC and SDLC processes. These objectives include:

Perform day-to-day management of all project phases to ensure deliverables are completed on time and budget. Coordinate all project activities with IT project team members and business owners/ stakeholders. Track performance against objectives and develop corrective strategies when objectives are not being met.

Create, manage, and update project charters, schedules, risk management plans, communication plans, project budgets, gate reviews and all other project management documentation.

Work with project team members and management to secure resources and funding.

Coordinate closely with project stakeholders to define project scopes and schedules. Collaborate with these stakeholders to understand business needs, processes, and data sources. Work with business analysts and architects to translate these business needs into clearly documented detailed requirements and functional specifications.

Provide regular status updates and maintain relevant metrics to provide transparency on team performance.

Communicate with executive leadership to provide project risk analysis, status, and requirements that may impact strategic direction.

Ensure that projects comply with audit requirements.

Identify and coordinate cross-project dependencies.

Technical Qualifications:

5 years of project management experience for application and data integration projects, including AI technologies.

Detailed knowledge of project management and software development life cycle methodologies.

Proven experience managing mid-sized to large IT integration projects independently.

Strong communication and facilitation skills with an ability to effectively manage cross-functional team discussions.

Strong management skills with an ability to achieve results in a matrix management environment.

Ability to translate business needs into IT deliverables.

Strong business planning, organizing, prioritizing and analytical skills.

Demonstrated ability to successfully apply waterfall, agile and hybrid project delivery methodologies.

Multi-disciplinary information technology familiarity with proven systems deployment experience.

Experience using Project and Portfolio Management tools (MS Project, Planview, SharePoint, etc.).

Education Requirements:

B.A / B.S degree in computer science or relevant field.

Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus, but not required.

Certifications or courses on AI, machine learning, or related fields is desirable