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Project Manager

NEW YORK-10011, NY, US
07/20/2018

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Required Skills

PMP

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

Job Description

Project Manager

The Project Manager will support IT development managers, project managers, and technical development staff globally.

The Project Manager will develop and monitor project plans and will act to secure the required project resources.

The Project Manager will define and manage the project scope and monitor progress against clear milestones developing the necessary contingency plans and associated communication messages as appropriate.

The Project Manager will have a hands-on role and be expected to both own and oversee a portfolio of projects at any one time.

Responsibilities:

Scoping, developing and managing plans/schedules/deliverables for multiple or strategic projects

Ensuring project timelines, activities, resources and budgets are managed appropriately

Managing stakeholder expectations and negotiating with project stakeholders to determine most accurate and appropriate definition of project scope and schedule

Working closely with information technology, application development, and analytical business units in the interpretation of requirements and the translation into design specifications

Eagerness to participate on a team designing, building and/or testing cloud infrastructure focused solutions.

Maintaining inventory and asset tracking information of both standard and custom home-grown business-critical applications and ensuring successful migration to the cloud

Collaboratively work with IT development leads to understand and communicate to senior management strategies and solutions as it relates to all facets—including servers, databases, storage devices, etc.

Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.

Working closely with outsource development vendors

Tracking performance against objectives and developing corrective strategies when objectives are not being met

Resolving conflicting priories in scope, schedule and cost for projects among various stakeholder groups

Managing the efforts of multiple project teams concurrently

Making presentations to senior-level management

Additional projects and assignments as assigned

Must be hands-on, with ability to work well as a member of a distributed team

Capable of playing many roles on a project as needed, such as documenting requirements, developing user acceptance and QA test cases, providing technical support, etc

Take initiative in developing new processes, improvement activities, and reporting within the PMO

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

Strong background of project management (5-8 years) with working knowledge of the software development life cycle methodologies

Background in financial data products and financial services applications; commercial financial data product and quantitative analytics model development project management a plus

Demonstrated ability to plan and manage projects which span both business and IT disciplines.

Strong communication skills with an ability to effectively lead cross-functional team discussions

Excellent time management skills with an ability to achieve results in a matrix management environment

Ability to analyze, translate, specify business needs into IT deliverables

Strong business planning, organizing, prioritizing and analytical skills

Demonstrated ability to work across groups and geographies and with all levels of hierarchy

Ability to understand technical complexities, relate to the team, provide better insight into the accuracy of estimations, and be able to identify risks proactively and efficiently

Experience working on multiple complex projects that are business critical

Experience and desire to develop, progress and manage a large technical team

Self-starter who can hit the ground running in understanding design and development for any project; feeds background a plus

Understand technology and software development methodologies

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Services, Engineering or similar

PRINCE2 or PMP certification helpful