Location
Atlanta, GA | United States
Job description
Project Manager
Duration: 6 Month Contract
Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid two days in the office, three days remote)
Billing Rate: DOE
5-7 years experience in IT leading cross functional projects
Troubleshooting internally and externally
Global Payments Inc. is looking for a multifaceted Project Manager to lead development and program efforts for Program Mgmt Office (PMO) initiatives. You will be part of the PMO working with the Product Mgmt group to help define schedules, scope, and technical issues including product ownership. You will lead a team of internal and external resources in the prioritization of work packages, design goals and objectives, and drive overall program performance
The ideal candidate will have solid experience in a technical leadership position and be adept at interpreting customer-centric approaches to solving business problems.
Key Areas of responsibility:
- Plan, Risks and Issues, Scope Management & Tracking statistics
- Clearly defining project roles & responsibilities, escalation paths and ownership
- Actively participating in creation (or facilitation) of specifications
- Overseeing and ensuring validation on the specifications
- Actively participating in project sizing and resource requirements
- Establishing a Scope management process
- Handling project execution working with both internal and external teams
- Ensuring quality of the end deliverable
- Managing day-to-day team and personnel issues (onsite)
- Maintaining project costing metrics, comparing to proposal and taking necessary corrective actions
- Staging and executing User Acceptance of the end deliverable
- Establishing and executing the roll out strategy
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- A thorough understanding of software processes (development, configuration, testing, and deployment)
- Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, leadership skills essential to successful program/project management
- Be a motivated self-starter who is also a team player with great cross-group collaboration skills
- Excellent oral and communication skills
- Track record of successfully delivering high quality projects on time in a fast-paced/rapidly changing environment
- Detail oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices and identify what truly matters
- 5-7 years of experience leading large, cross-functional technical projects
- Managing projects and writing technical specifications
- Extensive experience troubleshooting internal and externally developed code.
- Experience implementing Agile Methodology
- Ability to assist others in their work and assess the quality of other s work.
- Excited to learn new technologies
- Experience delivering productiongrade software
- Enjoys solving problems / finding new solutions to technical challenges
- Proficient with SDLC
- Atlassian JIRA experience a plus
- Previous Restaurant experience a plus
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