We are looking for a self-starting teammate to be a part of the Technology PMO team. This position entails combining Project Management practices with Agile best practices to ensure effective and efficient deployment of technology solutions.
The Technology Project Manager role is a cross functional position responsible for overseeing technology solutions from the Requirements gathering phase through Production deployment.
Job Responsibilities:
• Develop and manage end-to-end detailed project plans, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Define project scopes, objectives, and deliverables while involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Proactively coordinate cross-functional teams, develop, direct and monitor the progress on a project by managing the plan and resources.
• Maintain consistent communication with stakeholders about project status, risks, and changes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with vendors, ensuring timely and cost-effective project deliverables.
• Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement contingency plans.
• Leverage project management best practices to implement tools/templates/techniques necessary for consistency in the delivery of project deliverables.
• Build and leverage strong business relationships with project sponsor and subject matter expertise in the business domain they are operating in and the systems/solutions they are supporting.
• Work with the project team to determine functional requirements.
• Identify and supervise critical path activities and solve problems or raise them to immediate supervisor as needed.
• Ensure proper governance is in place throughout all phases of the project management lifecycle to best meet project objectives.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8+ years experience in IT project management.
• PMP certification an asset or formal Project Management Training.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills; ability to provide updates to senior leadership levels; adept at building relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and to be a self-starter with minimal guidance/oversight required.
• Proficiency in project management software tools, techniques, and methods.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• You have experience managing complex technical projects in a matrix environment and completed projects through full Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC), Requirements and Design, Quality Assurance and Implementation and Release Management.
• Experience leading IT Projects focused on hardware solutions, infrastructure & networking, software implementation.
• Ability to effectively synthesize information.
• Willing to have the ‘tough discussions’ and in challenging situations, is tireless, strong willed, persistent, tenacious and determined.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to prioritize personal and project work according to benefit, goals and objectives.
• Adapts quickly to new or changing conditions.