Project Manager III

Description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Remote, NY


Employment Type: Temp (18 months)

Industry: Banking

Compensation: $60.00 /hr.

Schedule: 40 hrs/Week.

About the Opportunity:

• Manages high-priority projects affecting three or more businesses or functional areas or complex projects affecting multiple businesses or functional areas.
• Manages changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan, and facilitate customer acceptance.
• Lead and direct high priority projects impacting three or more businesses or functions, or complex projects affecting multiple businesses or functional areas, often requiring considerable resources and high levels of functional integration from initiation to close.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

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What You'll Do:

• Ensure familiarity with scope and project objectives and establish clear roles and responsibilities for project team members. Projects may be of a technical and non-technical nature.
• Develop a project plan, forecast and schedule.
• Work with stakeholders to record detailed project requirements, constraints and assumptions to establish project deliverables, using requirement-gathering techniques (planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups) and the project charter.
• Ensure plans for assigned projects include work breakdown, project organization chart, cost/budget and communication, risk, quality and resource plans.
• Communicate project plans to affected parties to ensure a common understanding, set expectations, and align stakeholders and project team members.
• Ensure execution of tasks defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
• Execute all parts of the project plan and manage the budget/forecast.
• Monitor and control project work including change controls.
• Measure project performance utilizing appropriate tools and techniques to monitor progress;
• Identify and quantify variances, complete any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Implement approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk events.
• Improve project team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency and boost morale.
• Define project scope and project objectives, as well as the role and responsibility of each team member, to effectively coordinate team activities.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Contribute to technical/professional direction for discipline.
• Ensure alignment of Snowflake build layers and retrofit plan with the Integrated Project Plan.
• Enforce Jira hygiene across the SMD and EDA boards and contribute to Reporting Package updates.
• Manage the data delivery pipeline report on the status of the Snowflake build across the new & retrofit environments.
• Own and manage a weekly routine with the EDA retrofit team to maintain transparency and escalate any issues to the broader Data team.
• Completes other related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 4+ years of project management experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in Data & Cloud Technologies.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in SDLC, Agile, & Hybrid Delivery and Jira Management.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience as a project manager supporting the Snowflake workstream for the Servicing Modernization Program.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience working with engineers/developers and Agile Scrum.

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Proficiency with personal computers as well as pertinent software packages.
• Understand System architecture.
• Data flows and integrations.
• APIs.
• Cloud platforms.
• Databases and reporting solutions.
• SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Strategic Thinking.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.

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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.