Application Development Project Manager

Application Development Project Manager

Application Development Project Manager

Req number:

R1875

Employment type:

Full time

Worksite flexibility:

Onsite

Job Summary

As an Application Development Project Manager, you will work with internal development projects within Waterfall and Agile, manage teams up to 20 members and deliver projects on time and on budget.

Job Description

We are looking for an IT Project Manager to manage a team of business analysts, infrastructure and software engineers constructing and maintaining mission-critical, high-visibility applications and hardware in direct support of our clients objectives. This position will be full-time, onsite, and is a contract position renewed semi annually.

What Youll Do

• Determine the project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule

• Develop and review estimates and estimating assumptions for the projects schedule, effort, and cost using established estimating models, best practices, and past experience.

• Estimates account for all activities in the project scope, including project management and application development tasks, software quality assurance reviews, and vendor and contract management activities

• Define team member roles and expectations and ensure timely feedback

• Ensure that project resources receive any necessary training and are used effectively

• Review, and be responsible for, the overall development and integration of requirements

• Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and that it meets or exceeds expectations

• Balance scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risks; adjust as necessary

• Define the project iterations strategy. Manage and evaluate iterations

• Develop, implement, and maintain the Project Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, project measurement, and quality management plans

• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members

• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.

• Manage relationships with all suppliers and subcontractors; monitor their progress and adherence to the contract

• Ensure that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews and transitions

• Participate in quality management reviews

• Review and manage all changes to the requirements through a formally defined scope change process

• Represent the project team in IT and Business meetings

• Obtain buy-in from senior management for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule, and scope changes

• Effectively coordinate communications between/among cross functional teams, resolve conflict and maintain confidentiality

• Foster a team environment and demonstrates the ability to promote the team environment, yet work individually on each person's skill development

What Youll Need

Required:

• 2-5 years of waterfall project management experience

• 1-3 years of Agile/scrum master experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in Project Management (Waterfall and Agile methodology), preferably in a technical environment

• Experience with Application Development

• Must have experience dealing with outside Vendors

• Must have solid understanding of full project life cycle and management methodologies (Waterfall and Agile)

• Must have excellent communication (oral and written) and interface effectively with all levels of management as well as the technical team, and concisely, logically and accurately present issues verbally and in written format

• Strong problem-solving, supervisory experience, and team leadership skills

• Must be a strong team player and have good interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Must possess excellent organizational, time management, judgment, and decision-making skills

• Ability to manage multiple tasks

• Reliable, self-motivated, and focused on high quality delivery of work products; willing to accept responsibility and accountability

• Outstanding motivational, people and task management skills

• Ability to work well with a wide variety of people with varying technical skill sets and business knowledge is required (from the very abstract to the very granular.)

• Proven team leadership or project management experience

Desired:

• Project Management Professional certification preferred

• Scrum Master certification preferred

Physical Demands

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state, and local standards

• Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.

• Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard, and monitor.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employment selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected] or (888) 824 8111.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

It is the policy of CAI not to discriminate against any employee or applicant due to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or being a protected veteran. It is also the policy of CAI to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or being a protected veteran, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment. Employees and applicants of CAI will not be subject to harassment due to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or being a protected veteran. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.