The Project Manager – Technical Lead will be responsible for managing, planning, organizing and controlling all operations and activities for a large IT project including any and all phases of its lifecycle while incorporating SDLC practices.
Requirements
- Perform with a strong sense of urgency and ability to meet deadlines
- Facilitate and lead the definition of the project scope, project management/SDLC approach, milestones, tasks, deliverables and resource requirements
- Establish a communication strategy in partnership with the business, IT sponsors and effectively communicate project related information to team members, IT management, and customers throughout the project life cycle
- Develop and maintain project plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, budget/ongoing project forecast of resources and materials and other project related artifacts
- Effectively negotiate project resource needs and competing priorities with IT and PMO resource managers
- Create and execute strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning
- Manage, assess, and negotiate project scope changes
- Ensure that assigned projects are conducted in compliance with all department standards, policies, and guidelines
- Efficiently identify and resolve project issues
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members
- Escalate issues that require executive, management or business attention
- Manage vendor performance and drive deliverables to meet agreed upon target dates and levels of quality
- Ensure business engagement throughout the project, project decision making, managing scope/budget changes, business requirements elicitation and prioritization, acceptance testing, training, etc.
