Project Manager - IT

Roles And Responsibilities:

- Evolve program and project management capabilities, improve delivery of solutions to business clients, and leverage project management knowledge across the Advisory IT organization.

- Establish positive and collaborative relationships with customers and demonstrate a clear understanding of both internal and external customer requirements and measurement criteria.

- Consult with internal customers on project initiation statements, project definition reports, business cases and benefits realization estimates.

- Define project scope; identify, manage and control changes to scope and ensure alignment with product roadmap.

- Develop and manage project operating costs, request budget allocation and reallocations and ensure project and program is within budget; develop and maintain project artifacts (stakeholder analysis and status reporting).

- Develop work plans and work programs, including estimates and resource requirements; develop and execute behavioral change management plan to ensure user adoption of new systems and processes.

- Develop and maintain project communication plan.

- Incorporate industry best practices, conduct internal and external benchmarking, and establish standards, key measures, and metrics.

- Schedule daily stand ups, scrums, and other relevant meetings.

- Communicate project status and be the project advocate; take responsibility for risk and issue management; integrate and align with other processes and solutions; participate in and facilitate retrospectives/phase reviews to cultivate a learning organization.

- Develop and build relationships with business partners, peers, and managers across external teams (Ex. Governance, Risk and Security) to aid in moving projects and programs forward as needed.

- Ability to understand the strategic initiatives of the business partner and act as an advocate for their technology initiatives as it relates to the long-term prospects for the firm as a whole.

Preferred Qualification:

- An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech plus MBA.

- 8+ years of Technical Program Management experience in a related industry.

- Strong project management skills with experience in planning, and executing multiple medium-scale projects from definition through implementation, involving internal personnel and consultants with the ability to manage one to three medium risk projects concurrently, including multi-phase, multi-track projects.

- Project management/Agile experience that includes application development, package implementation, infrastructure and IT transformation projects.

- Comfortable working within an existing IT project governance framework.

- Well versed in Microsoft Office suite of applications and experience with using project planning tools, ex. MS Project, Planview, Jira, Confluence, etc.

- Knowledge of full SDLC project management/Agile, software development, and infrastructure deployment methodologies and industry best practices.

- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and best practices.

- Experience building collaborative environments, teaming cultures, and customer service mindset among project teams.

- Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority; able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and team work; strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously; ability to participate in resource planning processes based on defined organizational plans.

- Understanding of Cloud Technologies, preferably Azure, and DevOps a plus.

- Reporting and/or dashboarding experience such as Power BI, Tableau, etc. a plus.

- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired.

- Agile certification(s) a plus.