Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Apex Systems, America’s second largest technical staffing firm, has a 7 month contract opening for a Senior Project Manager with a client in Charlotte, NC. This is a fast-paced, cutting edge environment offering room for professional and technical growth. We are looking to hire fast and expect these resources to start soon.

Technical Project Manager (Development background) Ability to run projects that follow agile or waterfall methodology Ability to handle multiple projects of various sizes

Required Skillsets:

• Oracle EBS Financials Project Experience
• Solid Project Management Skills - building a maintaining project plan (3 plans, 1000+ lines)
• Thorough understanding of SDLC and application of project management techniques and methods
• JIRA/MS Project/SharePoint experience – Tracking/Scope/Risk/issue/financial/budget management
• Agile SCRUM Management experience
• Technical IT knowledge – Application Development background
  • Contribute to and challenge technical designs
  • Ability to challenge developers on timelines
  • Provide enough technical knowledge to be able to represent team in a meeting without technical backup
• Teams/PowerPoint/Excel/Visio skills

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• Waterfall Methodology Project Experience
• Agile Methodology – experienced SCRUM Master
• Alignment and partnership building with technology and business partner on director/VP level
• Persistent, independent work habits
• External vendor management / SOW management – multiple vendors on the project.
• Experience working with offshore teams for testing / development.
• Teams will consist of internal and external resources.
• Organizes project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives.
• Acts as the point of contact with client project management.
• Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables.
• Ensures schedule and budget are met. Identifies need for changes and revises within established guidelines/policies as appropriate.
• Performs ongoing review of project status; identifies project risks.
• Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate.
• Interfaces with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule.
• Experience working with client vision, business objectives, and critical success factors.
• Experience working with delivery assurance principles and appropriate procedures relevant to area.
• Experience working with techniques and approaches related to the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of project phases.