Technical Project Manager

Overview

$DOE
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 month(s)+

Skills

Project Management

Job Details

HMG America LLC is the best Business Solutions focused Information Technology Company with IT consulting and services, software and web development, staff augmentation and other professional services. One of our direct clients is looking for Technical Project Manager in USA. Below is the detailed job description.

Title: Technical Project Manager

Location: USA

Duration: contract

Job Description:

Key skill set expected from the qualified resource:

  1. Plans and Aligns: skilled at understanding overall goals/objective and breaking down objectives into appropriate tasks/actions. Sets relevant milestones and schedules and ensures alignment from cross-functional partners. Anticipates barriers and proactively works to mitigate risks or build contingency plans. Organized and can stay on top of various tasks, people/companies, and moving parts.
  2. Communicates Effectively: Is effective in a variety of communication settings: written and verbal, one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels. Attentively listens to others. Adjusts to fit the audience and the message. Provides timely and helpful information to others across the project.
  3. Interpersonal Savvy: Relates comfortably with people across levels, functions, culture, and geography. Acts with diplomacy and tact. Builds rapport in an open, friendly, and accepting way. Builds constructive relationships with people both similar and different to self. Picks up on interpersonal and group dynamics.
  4. Action Oriented: Quickly and decisively takes action in fast-changing, unpredictable situations. Displays a can-do attitude in good and bad times. Steps up to handle tough issues. Asks the right questions to accurately analyze situations and determine next steps.
  5. Flexibility / Manages Ambiguity: Flexibility to work in a waterfall/agile/hybrid environment ability to move forward if not following specific methodology by the book. Can decide and act without the total picture. Is calm and productive, even when things are up in the air. Deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes

Following are the key deliverables expected from a senior project manager.

Main expectations & Deliverables

Responsible for all the components of the delivery for the Project and/or Program

SCOPE:

o Gather and understand project scope requirement (including process, security, integration, data migration, reporting )

o Ensure the relevant team members join the KT session

o Ensure HLFS are being documented and signed off by the product owner

o Manage change to scope leveraging the agreed program change request process

o Ensure transparency in communication about what's in and out of scope for the different waves.

o Make sure all the scope element required to go live are being tested properly by DT (SIT) and by the Business team (BIT)

PLANNING:

o Own project milestone and detail plan covering all activities (in both DT and business) per stream (Scope/Change Management/Testing/ Security/ Data Migration/ Cutover) with clear ownership and deadline.

o Ensure the plan is aligned with the overall Project and/or Program deployment and dependency with another stream flag to program manager.

o Keep track of the progress with Actual Vs Plan measure to ensure control on the progress.

o Ensure daily tracking of project activities and that any issue with the plan is being escalate accordingly to the escalation path.

COMMUNICATION:

o Own all communication for the entire project and/or program.

o Communicate accurate scorecard on a weekly basis providing transparent view on where we are and what are the main risks/issues/Decision required.

o Ensure any meeting have a clear agenda, minutes and all actions/risks/Issues captured are being follow through on daily basis.

o Provide weekly and factual status on where we are on the different project stream including: Scope/ Change Management/Testing/ Security/ Data Migration/ Cutover.

o Clearly communicate any risk/issues/decision required following up the escalation path, ensure those come with clear ask and recommendation from the team.

FINANCIAL:

o Own all financial for the entire Project and/or Program.

o Ensure financials are accurate and following the mars guideline (Accrual, Cost and Benefit Plan )

o Ensure all project resources are submitted their time tracking in SNOW PPM.

o Ensure SNOW PPM project is being progressed as per PMO guideline and all required information required for moving stage gate are being shared (e.g: TOR, SFAR ).

RESOURCES:

o Ensure the project have enough resources to cover the activities required Escalate any issues according to the escalation path.

o Ensure roles and responsibilities are clear across the team member and everyone is clear about what's expected from him/her.

o Ensure any resource of the project is being fully utilized.

o Responsible to ensure the Vendor is delivering upon the expected quality and time.

o Engaged the project team embracing a "one team" spirit across the different team/organization.

RISKS MANAGEMENT:

o Owns all the risk management for the entire project and/or program.

o Ensure all RAID of the project are being capture and follow through daily. All items should have an Impact, an owner and a target due date to track upon.

o Ensure any RAID impacting the program is being raised on the Program RAID tracker and shared with the program manager.

GOVERNANCE:

o Prepare and facilitate the Steering Group meeting according to the agreed standard (e.g: Pre-read sent 48hrs in advance)

o Ensure relevant alignment is done before the steering group to avoid surprise to key stakeholders.

o Ensure any escalation is being done according to the program escalation path.

o Provide any relevant input to the Project and/or Program's Steering Group.

o Prepare any input need for budget governance request.
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