Job Description :
Barrister Global Services Network Inc. is currently looking for a motivated, highly detailed, organized and outgoing individual to support one of our major nationwide clients. The successful applicant should be able to quickly adapt their knowledge to the current IT environment and be able to enhance the current systems in place. They should also possess excellent verbal and written communication skills so as to be understood by technical and non-technical personnel.
Job Summary :
As the Business Intelligence Project Manager, you will manage the Data Migration, Data sourcing and Reporting aspects of a large Oracle EBS project. Along with managing day-to-day operational aspects of these various projects, you will support refining, prioritizing, interviewing business resources, documenting business and IT process challenging and helping to develop a written roadmap for solutions. The right candidate for this job has excellent written and verbal communication skills in customer settings and with internal senior management. Solid active listening, facilitation and presentation skills are a must .
Essential Job Functions:
Provide effective leadership and management of the project team, including executing end to end project lifecycle, planning resources, communicating status, and brokering team development.
Ensure projects include all the work required for successful delivery. Project Scope Management consists of scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.
Identify and communicate project risks and issues and facilitates mitigation strategies according to risk likelihood.
Monitor progress of issue resolution and negotiates solutions as necessary.
Serve as central communications link to IT leadership and project stakeholders by providing timely and accurate project information.
Ensure projects satisfy the agreed-upon requirements, including quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
Explain technical project solution designs and associated labor estimates and project schedules to non-technical business partners and stakeholders.
Work collaboratively with product owners to prioritize and groom product backlog.
Provide continuing direction to the project team, conducts status meetings, assesses proposed changes in scope, and recommends courses of action to project stakeholders and product owners
Develop time and cost estimates, project plans/schedules, and budgets.
Oversee and control ongoing costs, schedules, resources, scope, and risks .
Promote and support Project Management Office policies and processes.
Work with PMO to utilize established project standards, procedures, and quality objectives.
Assess variances from the project plan, gather metrics and develop and implement changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical/IT related program; or, an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
5+ years of project management experience, preferably in BI or data conversion related projects
Familiarity with data warehouse and business intelligence principles and tools such as Oracle OBIEE, ETL Tools, Microstrategy, SAP BO or similar products.
Solid knowledge of IT software development life cycle methodologies and processes.
Ability to lead and motivate professionals to produce high-quality results on time and within budget
Experience in Offshore and Onshore coordination
Preferred:
PMP certification or equivalent preferred but not required
Leadership and project management training are beneficial.
Hands on Agile experience preferred