Job Title: IT Project Manager Location: Suwanee, GA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months
Implementation Partner: Blue.cloud
End Client: To be disclosed
Position Summary: This person will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of software projects, which requires good project management skills as well as understanding of software development lifecycle.
Qualifications: - Proven experience (4+ years) in delivering large projects involving cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.
- Comprehensive understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, with demonstrated ability to apply Agile project management methodologies.
- Proficiency in capturing and reporting key process indicators and presenting them on dashboards.
- Expertise in creating task management plans, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and utilizing related project management tools.
- Skilled in conducting status meetings with virtual cross-functional teams, capturing and reporting project status, and maintaining project health using balanced scorecards for stakeholders.
- Experience in software project risk analysis, risk management, and collaborating with the team and stakeholders to develop prompt mitigation plans.
- Familiarity with project management software platforms such as M365 and Atlassian.
- Self-motivated with a strong focus on project deliverables.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Desirable knowledge of process improvement and capability maturity tools and methodologies, including ITIL, CMMI, Lean Six Sigma, and Lean.
Roles and responsibilities: - Attend weekly project meetings, document risks, issues, action items, and follow up until closure.
- Summarize key data (risks, issues, actions, schedule, budget) weekly and publish a status report.
- Ensure key project documents are updated in the SharePoint and/or Atlassian repository.
- Track and report weekly project hours.
- Evaluate and provide feedback on test scripts and results.
- Other related duties as assigned