Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Immediate need for a talented Senior Project Manager with experience in the Banking & Financial Industry. This is a 5+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located Plano, TX. Please review the job description below.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Project Manager is responsible for successfully delivering small to large complex projects.
• He or she must demonstrate advanced project management knowledge across the full project lifecycle, with experience in multiple lifecycles (waterfall, package, Agile).
• Business or project experience is highly desired within a relevant domain such as Automotive, Finance, and Banking or CMMI 3+ IT services.
• Experienced with Agile Scrum management (minimum 2 years leading).
• Experience with process-based maturity models, such as Client Business Process, CMMI or ITIL.
• Experience within scope-managed lifecycles, such as waterfall, Iterative or package-based.
• Develop work-based project schedules based on deliverables defined in project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), resourced and dependency-based, with an accurate critical path.
• Drive team to complete tasks/duties within planned cost, schedule and quality.
• Manage all project resources, vendors and contracts, whether local and remote.
• Communicate and drive completion of upcoming tasks and deadlines
• Lead project adoption through organizational change management.
• Manage scope change and factors which may impair the business value of a project.
• Use Earned Value, critical path and other techniques to proactively measure project performance-to-plan.
• Manage budget and maintain accurate cost and schedule forecasts

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Establish and maintain all project documentation in its system of record.
• Specific Experience with value-managed lifecycles, such as Agile Scrum or Agile Lean.
• Lead multiple level planning (e.g. roadmaps, MVPs, epics, releases, sprints, day-to-day).
• Conduct effective, lean Scrum ceremonies rituals.
• Create and groom prioritized user story backlog.
• Lead consistent, standard-based sizing of user story points.
• Improve sprint-to-sprint velocity.
• Ability to drive progress using Agile means such as Roadmaps, backlog story points, velocity and burndown.
• Ability to manage long lead time deliverables with suppliers outside the team.
• Ability to incorporate part-time external support, potentially remote, into the fulltime team.
• Ability to continually maximize value of releases, including optimal project shutdown.
• Experience with the following business processes.
• Strong development technology background desirable (requirements, architecture, development, application management, maintenance, operations).
• Experienced in building work-based plans and performing against baselines in MS Project.
• Project Management training, such as PMP certification.

Our client is a leading Banking & Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.