Albany, NY or Buffalo NY (Hybrid)
6 Months 40hrs/week
Job Description:
· Responsible for managing one or more IT projects and interacting closely with internal staff and business partners to effectively help us develop and deliver project solutions. Accountable for ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget and scope. Responsible for overseeing/creation of project documentation such as business requirements/user stories, project plans, project schedules, risk mitigation plans, and status reports/communications.
· Lead multiple projects and/or special assignments concurrently effectively communicate (written and verbal) to all levels including executive management
· Contribute ideas and participate in brainstorming sessions from project conception through implementation
· Be proactive, adaptive, and responsive to change.
· Work with technical resources to ensure IT design and technical documents effectively meet business/operational needs based on business requirements
· Track, update, and escalate project issues, risks and gaps, and action items while driving identification of priority and project or program impacts
· Develop and execute project plans, conduct follow ups and update project documentation in accordance with established processes
· Drive User Acceptance Testing (UAT), 3rd party integration testing, and production validation
· Drive post implementation tasks, archive documents, participate in lessons learned meetings, project rollout and post- implementation product results tracking
Requirements:
· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
· 5+ years’ experience as a Technical Project Manager
· Experience managing project budgets
· Proficiency managing cross functional teams
· A strong understanding of business procedures, financial services, and technical terminology
· Possess strong organization and planning skills with an ability to quickly adapt to change
· Excellent leadership, communication and negotiation skills, must behave as an owner
· Self-driven, highly motivated, and comfortable interacting at various levels within and outside of the organization
· Clearly understand waterfall and agile practices and principles
· Familiar with Slack, Teams, JIRA/Confluence, Miro and/or SharePoint
· Familiar with MS Project, MS PPT, Word, Excel or similar tools
· Previous experience as Agile Couch, SME, Product Owner or Scrum Master, a plus .