Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager - Contract Position - HIRING ASAP

Start date: ASAP
Duration: 11-month contract
Location: 1 week in Dublin office, 3 weeks working from home
Rate: €550 per day

Summary

We are looking for a qualified, versatile project/program manager to manage a diversified series of projects and assist application development teams in adopting new technology and plan ongoing maintenance and enhancements for existing systems and frameworks.

Key Skills

• Commanding project leadership and follow-through with delivery team resources, including Product Management, Operations and QA.
• Strong customer focused, team-oriented communication skills with emphasis on building lasting, trusted partnerships through written and verbal communications, presentations to management.
• Deep project management practice experience & discipline with adherence to process in an agile/rapid development methodology.
• Usage of agile based (SCRUM) project management tools is highly desirable (eg JIRA).
• Proven ability to deliver on time and on budget with a high level of integrity.
• Knowledge of building applications for the Financial Services sector is very helpful.
• Knowledge with Application Monitoring Tools and Platform Enablers is helpful, but not required. Examples of these products include UDeploy, Docker, Dynetrace and SPLUNK.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, including product upgrades and licensing is helpful, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple complex technology projects through the full development life cycle.
• Plan, coordinate and report project status from delivery teams during all project life cycle phases, particularly in design and development.
• Project estimation, budget management, project planning strategies, establishing milestones and schedules, maintaining, and reporting project status, issue tracking, risk management, change control, and monitoring activities of all team members.