Senior Project Manager
DataStaff, Inc. is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Indianapolis, IN.
*This position is hybrid, 1-2 days per week will be on-site
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with senior management, stakeholders and the overall project teams to meet business objectives and provide professional leadership, while fostering mentorship, respect and trust.
- Oversee multiple projects to ensure proper management towards successful conclusion.
- Manage large enterprise-type projects that involve multiple internal stakeholders or contracted resources.
- Develop, monitor, and maintain project plans.
- Define users and project team members’ roles and responsibilities on the project.
- Define user requirements, deliverables, and approvals.
- Coordinate and monitor activities of all stakeholders to ensure timelines and budgets are met.
- Communicate project status to management and project stakeholders.
- Mentor and provide guidance to intermediate-level project managers, including recommending training and experience.
- Responsible for relationship management, project planning, resource management, tactical execution, and the creation and/or oversight of final project deliverables.
- Lead end-to-end migration of our on-premises Oracle Data Warehouse to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience in IT Project Management and IT digital transformation.
- Strong knowledge of information systems development life cycle, information technology, project tools and approaches to development and implementation.
- Ability to translate technology terms and explain concepts of the SDLC to program/business/stakeholders who may have little to no exposure to working on or with large software projects/teams.
- Strong knowledge in leading modernizing Oracle, PL/SQL, data warehouses using BigQuery, Dataflow, and DataStream.
- Ability to work with technical team members and other IT professionals to flesh out project plans and risk registers and overcome obstacles.
- Strong communication and presentation skills required.
Required Skills:
- 10 Years - Experience in complex IT project or portfolio coordination involving multiple stakeholders across multiple business areas and geographies
- Experience with Cloud migration, Google, Data Warehouse, and migration experience
- 10 Years - Ability to translate technology terms and explain concepts of SDLC to program/business folks who have little to no exposure to large software projects
- 10 Years - Ability to support Sr. project team staff to drive projects to success
- Strong organization, communication and presentation skills
- 10 Years - Experience in organizing highly complex and technical information.
- Prior experience working on the State of Indiana's large software projects
- Knowledge of multiple methodologies, including agile and waterfall
Desired Skill:
- Experience managing projects within Azure DevOps
- PMP Certified
- Led end-to-end migration of an on-premise to cloud data warehouse migrations
This position is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.