Location: Plano TX 75024 (3 days onsite, 2 day wfh)
Contract Length: 12 months
Top Technical Must Haves: Agile, Microsoft excel, Microsoft Powerpoint
This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivery of defined deliverables which usually requires engagement from multiple teams such as a project or smaller program.
Key responsibilities include communicating the work objectives, coordinating delivery, managing risks, ensuring compliance to standards, and providing end-to-end visibility into the health of the deliverables. This role ensures execution and delivery meets the client's expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline, and cost. They facilitate sync points across multiple organizations to enable delivery.
Day to day- • Act as an end-to-end project manager that creates detailed project plans and delivers against them • Manage and coordinate resources within and across organizations and has matrix management responsibilities • Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and stakeholders. • Manages a product backlog of Epics/features that need to be delivered • Mitigates roadblocks for technical team, including appropriate escalation, as needed • Contributes to test planning and participates in test case reviews and makes necessary updates • Work with technical teams to mine for data to support test scripts • Supports UAT testing efforts by addressing defects raised by the testers/monitor ALM • Develops implementation plans, coverage schedules, and arranges validation efforts • Ensure Change Management deliverables like PTO/PTB/PTS are completed • Performs technical validation during production installs • Drive resolution of any post install defects with production support, LOB, and project team • Provide support for production, to include problem analysis, resolution assistance, and tracking • Contributes to the timely completion of Application Governance & GIS deliverables
Required (hard) skills/experience • Experienced working in a SAFe Agile environment • Basic working knowledge of JIRA • Understanding of Change Management practices and principles • Technically competent with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project, and Visio
Desired skills/experience • University degree or college diploma in the field of Business or Technology • 5-7 years direct work experience in a project leadership capacity • Business Banking domain experience preferred
Characteristics of the top performer • Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative manner • Self-motivated and quick learner who can take the full ownership of assignments/projects • Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities. • Strong written and oral communication skills