Project Manager

TEKsystems is a leading provider of business and technology services, helping clients activate ideas and solutions. They are seeking an IT Project Manager to oversee project delivery, manage schedules, resources, and communication, while facilitating team collaboration and removing obstacles.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes)
• Lead projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, status reporting and closure
• Drive activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resource, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issue, dependency, vendor relationship and communications
• Collaborate with project and program leads to create overarching business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules and resources required
• Provides timely updates to the IT leads, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates
• Facilitate the teams daily work including all the scheduled meetings
• Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely
• Remove the obstacles or impediments faced by the team in its work
• Run sprints as project might adopt hybrid methodology

Requirements:

• Experience with Enterprise Data Hub, AWS, and managing cross-functional teams
• In AWS, the most relevant experience is compute services and setting up AWS environments
• Overall project management, communications, developing and maintaining project roadmaps, schedules etc
• Ensure overall successful project delivery (on-time, on-budget, high quality, meeting business outcomes)
• Lead projects with overall responsibility for successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, status reporting and closure
• Drive activities to achieve measurable outcomes by managing schedule, resource, scope, deliverables, budget, risk, issue, dependency, vendor relationship and communications
• Collaborate with project and program leads to create overarching business cases, project charters, communication plans, delivery timelines, detailed schedules and resources required
• Provide timely updates to the IT leads, functional leads, IT PMO, and key stakeholders by producing regular status reports and steering governance updates
• Facilitate the teams daily work including all the scheduled meetings
• Create a collaborative environment which allows the team and stakeholders to interact closely
• Remove the obstacles or impediments faced by the team in its work
• Run sprints as project might adopt hybrid methodology
• Project management skills: create and execute project plans, proactively manage risks/issues, maintain compliance with project management processes, an eye for detail, independently maintain project documentation, drive follow-up on open actions etc
• Excellent oral and written communication skills: Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation
• Ability to drive productive conversations and team meetings
• Active listening skills
• Excellent People skills: a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve conflict, be able to work with cross-functional teams
• High level of interpersonal skills to lead cross-functional teams
• High degree of professionalism and integrity
• Analytical and creative ability where problems are extremely complex
• Ability to understand and translate requirements
• Committed to ensuring that IT enables its customers by taking responsibility for service and quality