Job Description
JOB LOCATION: Springfield, MA or Boston, MA (hybrid) Open to remote
WAGE RANGE*: $70-76/hr.
JOB NUMBER: 28511252
Must be local for Temp to hire full time
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager and/or Scrum Master.
- 3+ years of recent experience in Cloud transformation and/or migration projects.
JOB DESCRIPTION
What You Will Do
- 50% on Cloud Initiatives
- 50% on Data Initiatives (The percentages may be rebalanced based on demand.)
You will collaborate closely with the Program Manager and other leaders to ensure the successful delivery of Cloud & Data deliverables and projects. Key responsibilities include:
- Building relationships across multiple business units to facilitate execution of work.
- Establishing cross-functional communication channels and KPI metrics.
- Identifying, communicating, and managing dependencies within and across teams.
- Proactively identifying and managing risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, including developing mitigation plans.
- Facilitating quick decision-making processes.
- Helping prioritize workloads and determining trade-offs of scope, budget, and calendar.
- Roadmapping work in partnership with product owners and SMEs within and across teams.
- Negotiating trade-offs between multiple competing priorities.
- Leading daily standup meetings to maintain adherence to timelines and requirements.
- Creating a community for information sharing on successes and challenges within the organization.
- Utilizing agile/adaptable delivery methods for managing large strategic initiatives and smaller enhancement projects.
- Assessing project health and compiling periodic project health reports.
- Managing project financials.
- Potential contract-to-hire opportunity.
Technical Project Manager Role
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Business, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager and/or Scrum Master.
- 3+ years of recent experience in Cloud transformation and/or migration projects.
- Experience running data projects.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification.
- Knowledge of cloud computing concepts, models, and services (public, private, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Basic understanding of various IT project methodologies and life cycles.
- Ability to think resourcefully, take ownership of tasks, and adapt to shifting business requirements.
- Strong project management skills, including conceptualization, analysis, driving alignment, planning resources, managing milestones and objectives, and Agile practices.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable making decisions with limited data.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to work effectively in a dispersed team environment.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint).
- Ability to influence stakeholders who don't have a direct reporting relationship.
- Leading through ambiguity with the ability to provide teams with clear direction.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in designing Program Management framework for Cloud initiatives and/or projects.
- Project management certification (PMI/CAPM or PMP/PgMP, PRINCE2).
- Experience working and/or partnering with Cloud Engineers on Cloud implementation.
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.
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