Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Founded on a simple belief – do what's right for our clients and our people. TrueBridge leverages proven talent identification / attraction / screening solutions to match highly qualified IT and business professionals with great opportunities.

We made the Staffing Industry Analyst's 'Fastest Growing' list in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Job Description

The Project Manager is responsible for the end to end management of multiple technology projects. The Project Manager is accountable to leadership for the project schedule, budget, and overall quality. Acts as the single point for project communications to executive sponsors and management, including escalation of issues/risks as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Creates appropriate project documentation, balances stakeholder needs, and effectively negotiates tradeoffs between scope, schedule, and budget.
• Schedule Management - creates, manages, and understands impacts to project scope, constraints, and schedule. Performs critical path analysis.
• Cost Management - develops, monitors, and assesses project budgets through the entire project life cycle providing full transparency to stakeholders.
• Communications Management - creates and manages communications with stakeholders providing relevant details for informing and decision making in status reporting.
• Risk & Issue Management - identifies and creates mitigation plans for risks and issues. Utilizes available tools for identifying and tracking issues.
• Resource Management - identifies appropriate staff, defines roles and responsibilities, develops project organization chart and governance structure.
• Quality Management - identifies relevant quality standards and defines governance, communication, and quality processes.
• Change Request Management - identifies and develops strategy for changes in scope, schedule, and cost.
• Implementation and Transition Management - creates transition plan, identifies lessons learned, and applies the lessons learned to future projects.
• Integration Management - identifies and manages project interdependencies.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of professional experience including prior work for Fortune 500 organizations.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and written skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Ability to work well on cross functional project teams including IT and business subject matter experts.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and other Microsoft tools.
• The ability to work in a fast paced team environment.
• Waterfall project management knowledge.
• Bachelor's degree

Nice to Have:

• Financial Services industry experience
• Experience with CA Clarity PPM
• PMP certification