Thursday 28 August 2014

ArimaaForce-COTS Project Manager-Reston,VA-One Year

Role : COTS Project Manager
Location: Reston, VA
Duration : One Year

Description
JOB INFORMATION
Plan, manage, and execute varied software development, customization, or IT systems development projects. Gather information at front end to determine project parameters and specifications, and to budget human, financial and other resources. May provide technical oversight to some staff and track attainment of project milestones. Report on progress and budget expenditures to project owners.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS
·         Meet with application owners, application developers and analysts, coding staff and the like to determine business needs and functionalities desired for new or revised application.
·         Plan course of relatively large or complex project(s), including milestones, resources needed in the form of staff hours, budget, use of technology and tools and document in project plan, following established project management methodology.
·         Track course of project from meetings, conferring with developers, and receiving reports. Update project plan as needed. Document changes to scope or functionalities with change ticket, project plan, or other format.
·         Assess compliance of development process with accepted methodology and communicate to responsible managers or staff. Document exceptions or deviations as needed. Convene meetings and plan agenda to ensure important issues are aired and resolved.
·         Report on progress of project, use of staff, $ expenditures, progress on milestones and the like to application owners.
·         Provide guidance to project staff; may manage staff of analysts who are developing technical specifications or developers who are coding. May plan, document, manage and evaluate staff performance, or contribute to evaluation by their managers.
·         Contribute to professional or technical development of less experienced staff by mentoring or training.

Qualifications
EDUCATION : Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE : 6+ years of related experience

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Experience managing COTS projects
• Experience with large scale data infrastructure implementation
• Experience with Agile
• Experience with Enterprise related concepts, designs, and project implementations
• Experience with meta data and meta data repository products
• Experience with business intelligence delivery
• Experience with project requiring a high degree of end to end data mapping and analysis
• Data modeling product experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Process analysis and systematic thinking
• Ability to operate at strategic and tactical levels
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients, developers and end users
• Ability to prioritize among a large number of requirements
• PMP certification desired
• Experience with industry leading Enterprise Project Portfolio Management tools desired
• Strong understanding of mortgage business concepts with experience in financial or mortgage technology is desired along with a background in leading data management projects

ArimaaForce LLC
USA & India
resumes@arimaaforcellc.com