Job Description :
Job Title: LARA - Project Manager
Duration: 12+ Months
Location: Lansing MI
Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI''s framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
Years of Experience:
Minimum 4 years of experience as a Project Manager with knowledge and strong understanding of varied software development methodologies (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Scrum)
Job Description:
Familiar with standard concepts and practices of software development lifecycle. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI''s framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope. Creates and implements a communication plan. Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources. Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers. Provides technical support to project team members. Handles complex application features and technical designs. Designs and implements the components required for complex application features. Generally manages a group of applications system analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable.
May require specific PC, workstation, operating system, application or platform skills. Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project. Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts. Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers. Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency. Directs corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives. Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance. Self-directed and independent. Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.
Skill Required:
PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or Scrum certification
Experience leading projects using Agile / Scrum methodology
Held role as PM and Scrum concurrently on multiple projects
Experience managing contracts and deliverables
Experience with PPM Tools
Experience using Changepoint
Experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Experience managing Salesforce implementation projects
Experience with budget creation, tracking, and other financial reporting/analysis
Experience managing IT/software development projects using PM methodology
Experience managing projects in a Government environment