Immediate need for Sr. Agile Project Manager in Durham NC

Job Role: Agiel Project Manager Location: Durham NC Duration: 10+ Months ****Must have 5+ years experience in Agile***** ****Candidates with prior experience with state government projects**** This Agile Project Manager must be very well organized and able to manage multiple technical, business, test, and training teams. The Project Manager is responsible for managing project timelines, resources, quality, and risk; including, milestone planning...

Job Role: Agiel Project Manager
Location: Durham NC
Duration: 10+ Months

****Must have 5+ years experience in Agile*****
****Candidates with prior experience with state government projects****

This Agile Project Manager must be very well organized and able to manage multiple technical, business, test, and training teams. The Project Manager is responsible for managing project timelines, resources, quality, and risk; including, milestone planning and reporting, project budget tracking, budget analysis, project staffing, status reporting, change requests and other basic project administration activities. Project duties include requirements gathering, guiding internal customers through the project life cycle, and supporting go-live and post-implementation support. 

The position requires a strong blend of Project Management business analysis and technical experience and the ability to work well in a team environment, as well as skills to facilitate communication, team focus, influence, service-oriented, problem-solving, analytic thinking, planning, personal development, and decisiveness. Using these attributes, the candidate will communicate individual roles and project/program expectations for both internal and external teams, develop detailed project plans and schedules, provide work direction and leadership to assigned projects or programs including sub-projects and at times, individual project members; including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts. 

This position also monitors and audits project or program milestones and critical dates to identify potential jeopardy of project schedule and identifies ways to resolve schedule issues, provides required project status reporting, assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is time, cost, and quality objectives.

Skill required:

Experience organizing meetings, maintaining project plans, budgets, and status reports; providing feedback on standards and approaches to the work.

Experience with Agile and other structured methodologies (i.e., Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, RUP, or PMI).

Experience with Project Management tools, including MS Project, JIRA, Crucible, Fish-eye, and SharePoint.

Demonstrated ability to enlist support across functional teams within a matrix organization to obtain results.

Working knowledge of Project Management Standards common in project management methodology.

Expertise in using MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.

Demonstrated experience using analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

Track record of driving the delivery of projects on time.

Ability to work on multiple priorities and/or projects simultaneously without impact to quality of work.

Experience with software end-user change management strategy and execution.

Strong risks and business impact analysis and reporting skills.

Demonstrated strength in problem definition and resolution.

Best Regards,

Ankur Bhatia
Recruitment Manager
Arete Technologies, Inc
Address: 647 Peach Orchard Place, Cary, NC, 27519, USA
Contact No: +1 (919) 447 1299 Ext:- 406
Text: +1 (517)-459-0380
E-mail ID: Ankurb@aretetechnologiesinc.com
Website: www.aretetechnologiesinc.com