job summary:
NOTE: Hybrid - Mondays - Thursdays - Remote on Fridays. Preferred Location, Austin, TX /Secondary Location - Southlake, TX.
Seeking Senior Project manager to support Data projects (experience/background in data preferred).
Your Opportunity:
At Client's, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.
The Client's Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) organization partners with Business and Technology Leaders to prioritize and execute technology work for strategic business sponsored initiatives, enhancements, as well as standard technology operations, production support, and technology enablement to ensure STS capacity is focused on the most important work for the company.
What you'll do:
Project Managers are responsible for establishing and leading enterprise-wide, cross functional strategic initiatives. They lead a variety of different types of projects including launching new products and services, large-scale application development, systems integration, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments. We are currently transitioning to a scaled agile model, therefore this role will need both traditional project management, as well as scaled agile methodology experience.
Responsibilities:
Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables
Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit
Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and partners
Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a project
Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
Validates financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures
Works with resource managers to ensure that resource capacity planning is accurately forecast, and provides ongoing reconciliation of actual time spent against forecasts
Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
Handles risks and issues management for the project-level risks and interdependencies
Partners with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to track Agile development milestones and support Agile practices as needed
Manages team relationships to ensure effective delivery
Facilitates problem-solving and resolves stakeholder conflict
Teaches, coaches, and mentors team members to remove roadblocks and drive project execution
What you are good at:
Proven ability to build a robust partnership and trust with stakeholders
Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively & succeed within a highly collaborative culture
Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally
Demonstrated sound business and technical acumen
Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
Understanding of cross-functional dependencies and how they impact project execution
Expertise with financial data and the technology, tools and processes that support work and projects/programs
Expert understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum
Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
Ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity
What you have (required qualifications):
8+ years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with emphasis on product development, systems, and technical environments
8+ years of experience with project management tools and artifacts, including MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, project budgets, change requests, status reports, etc.
Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace
Proven experience with and understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum
Proven ability to quickly build relationships and earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders
Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects
BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience
Experience with managing projects to rollout new technologies and software
Background in data, including a foundational understanding of data development processes and demonstrated experience partnering with data engineering, analytics, or governance teams
Preferred Skills:
Release Train Engineer experience, preferred
Scaled agile methodology experience, preferred
Background/experience in financial services industry
PMP or PMI-ACP certification
Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and key AI concepts are preferred
location: Austin, Texas
job type: Contract
salary: $69.37 - 74.37 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables
- Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit
- Directs large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and partners
- Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a project
- Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters
- Validates financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures
- Works with resource managers to ensure that resource capacity planning is accurately forecast, and provides ongoing reconciliation of actual time spent against forecasts
- Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan
- Handles risks and issues management for the project-level risks and interdependencies
- Partners with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to track Agile development milestones and support Agile practices as needed
- Manages team relationships to ensure effective delivery
- Facilitates problem-solving and resolves stakeholder conflict
- Teaches, coaches, and mentors team members to remove roadblocks and drive project execution
What you are good at:
- Proven ability to build a robust partnership and trust with stakeholders
- Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively & succeed within a highly collaborative culture
- Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally
- Demonstrated sound business and technical acumen
- Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
- Understanding of cross-functional dependencies and how they impact project execution
- Expertise with financial data and the technology, tools and processes that support work and projects/programs
- Expert understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity
What you have (required qualifications):
- 8+ years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross functional projects, with emphasis on product development, systems, and technical environments
- 8+ years of experience with project management tools and artifacts, including MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, project budgets, change requests, status reports, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to mobilize and motivate teams, set direction and approach, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages with grace
- Proven experience with and understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum
- Proven ability to quickly build relationships and earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders
- Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects
- BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with managing projects to rollout new technologies and software
- Background in data, including a foundational understanding of data development processes and demonstrated experience partnering with data engineering, analytics, or governance teams
qualifications:
What you have (required qualifications):
8+ years
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