Sr. Project Manager

One of our Premier clients is looking for a Technology PMO Project Manager.

General Overview The individual who has full responsibility and accountability for the execution of the Project as well as the outcome.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating the completion of required SDLC artifacts and approvals, including uploading to repositories
• Coordination of internal and external resources and third parties/vendors.
• Deliver projects against operating plan on time, on budget, on quality and experience
• Development of detailed project plan and schedule to track progress and milestones
• Refinement of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
• Creation of project level status reporting and development communications plan
• Manage and identify availability and allocation of project Resources, in partnership with Resource Manager.
• Initial point-of-contact for project escalations
• Managing & tracking project budget, risks, and issues
• Primary Liaison with Business Project Managers, responsible for ensuring project status alignment with Business PM.

Qualifications/Competencies

• Business/IT degree qualified
• Five or more years’ project management experience in Technology
• Broker Dealer/Financial Service or other heavily regulated industry experience
• Active PMP certification required
• Organizational skills in planning, implementation and reporting of a project.
• Skilled in managing full lifecycle of project delivery: creation of production processes and procedures, support model requirements and business acceptance & handover
• Detail-oriented
• Thrives in collaborative environment
• Ability to identify and manage risk. Ability to escalate when necessary.
• Experience in managing project budgets and multi-faceted projects
• Good communications skills, with customers, team and stakeholders
• Business & IT strategy experience
• Customer-focused mindset
• Knowledge of related software tools (Jira, TFS, PlanView,
• Strong leadership capability – experience of communicating and engaging staff, peers and stakeholders in the delivery of projects
• Experience managing virtual teams based globally
• Experience in delivering multiple, large scale and budget technology projects including infrastructure projects