Project Manager

Role Overview

• Manage the implementation of information systems to meet identified business needs, acquiring and using the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality.
• Give proposals for project strategies at the architecture / technical level, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables, review of technical project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and management, status reports, problem reporting and management systems, follow up and organization.
• Integrate the project and program strategies and ensure alignment with business strategies and drivers, and management priorities
• Coordinate the architecture community for technical analysis and architecture process implementation in sync with the Architecture Board decisions and organization strategies.
• Facilitate architecture meetings (such as architecture board meetings, architecture team/project meetings, architecture communities) with focus on consensus building, decision clarity, stakeholder management & influence
• Coaching and mentoring, promoting the architecture value rather than control.
• Identify ways to reduce costs in IT and business leadership to optimize and rationalize the IT portfolio
• Guide the team in charge of project activities and review their deliverables.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to create business, technical, solution and data architecture models that reflect the organization’s strategies and goals
• Provide solution architecture guidance

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or a related field.
• 16+ years of total Experience in IT
• At least 7 years of specific expertise in project management standards and methodologies (Project Scheduling, Strategic Planning, Financial Modelling, Budgeting, Forecasting, Performance Tracking).
• At least 5 years of specific expertise in Agile methodology, Scrum Management, Lean agile
• At least 3 years of specific expertise in Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman…, and actual experience developing and building models based on such frameworks. This should include experience in business – IT alignment from the architecture perspective (business, data, application, technology, security)
• At least 3 years of specific expertise in enterprise architecture and business process modelling and associated tools such as ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, etc.
• At least 3 years of specific expertise in enterprise architecture tools such as ARIS, Enterprise Architect…
• At least 3 years of experience with Confluence and Jira
• Good governance skills, and strong leadership/coordination abilities
• Good communications skills, both verbal (e.g.: presentations, seminars, etc.), and written (e.g.: reports, articles, etc.)
• Ability to combine many different skills and experiences to address and solve business, information, and technology related opportunities and problems
• Promotion skills (“selling” the results of architectural approaches through presentations
• Ability to adapt to unplanned changes or decisions
• Planning, coordination, reporting, follow-up
• Knowledge of Cloud Architecture (AWS, MS Azure…)
• Modelling and graphical representations and abstractions
• Risk assessment
• Due to the particular nature of a large international organization such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:
• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team understanding the needs, objectives and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions;
• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings;
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects;
• Excellent Team Player
• Ability to understand, speak and write English B2 or French B2 will be an advantage;
• Mandatory Certifications(At least one of the following):
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• • PRINCE2 Foundation/PRINCE2 Practitioner
• • PM2

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• PMP