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SalaryLocation:Oakland, CA (100% Remote) / Must be in California / Prefers someone from Northern CA
Notes from Manager
Some other details that might be helpful
- These are technical project management roles.
- These are NOT Agile scrum master roles, but traditional waterfall PMP certified with expertise in MS project and with end-to-end project delivery experience as PM (not Tech lead, not Dev manager, not Business analyst role)
- There is no strategy component for these roles this is not a requisition for program managers.
- We need a PM who worked primarily in Oracle project space heavily - a Project Manager who worked in delivery of Oracle cloud projects working with AWS integrations. They will work with our financial business partners and executives closely. Understanding of Oracle financials will be a success factor for Oracle PM .
Must Have:
- 7+ years of solid project management
- We need a PM who worked primarily on infrastructure, security, Cloud technologies, Applications etc.
- Experience driving projects from initiation to closure with smooth handoff to operations teams
- Certification: PMP (MUST Proof required along with submittal)
- Lives in California/Manager prefers northern CA
- Valid LinkedIn with picture
Job description
The ideal candidate must have demonstrable project delivery skills
- Able to drive project from initiation to closure with smooth handoff to operations teams
- Organize project work into Phases, Work streams
- Track and report status on entire project, individual phases, individual work streams, milestones, resource utilization, project finances (incl. burn-down)
- Comfortable with presenting to executives, sponsors, business leadership team
- Proficient in waterfall & Agile methodologies
- Thorough in maintaining all project artifacts charter, executive material, RACI, RAID log etc,
- Skillful in project plan creation using MS project
- Create project dashboards
- End to end effective meeting facilitation (Clear Agenda with outcome, next steps, publishing Minutes, track actions etc.)
- Establish project governance & communication plans with clarity
Key success factors in a candidate
- Self-starter
- Proactive; 'can do' problem solving attitude; effective navigating ability in ambiguity
- Ability to understand organization dynamics & adapt
- Audience-specific communication/artifacts
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, ownership
- Superior communication skills Written & Verbal
- Ability to influence
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant experience
- 7+ years IT project management experience
- Tool proficiency (MUST): Microsoft Project , Jira
- Certification: PMP (MUST Proof required)
