Program Manager

6+ month contract
In person interviews required


Title: Program Manager
Specialization:
Reports to: Technology Manager
Department: Information Technology
Location: Boston, MA
Type: Full time


QUALIFICATIONS:

• PMP certification required
• 4-6 years experience in the project management and reporting
• 6-10 years experience in software development and technology implementation
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

DESCRIPTION:

This position will be working directly with one of the business units. The person will participate as the project manager across all technology related initiatives from inception to implementation. This position will monitor and document progress, report on milestone deliverables, risks and costs across all ongoing technology initiatives.


RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Responsible for coordinating and project reporting for Technology Steering Committee
• Responsible for coordinating / maintaining task list and initiatives for Steering committee
• Monitor and document project progress, report on milestone deliverables, risks and costs across all ongoing initiatives
• Provide monthly /quarterly dashboards by project for key stakeholder review
• Track program budget and actuals (by project); Quarterly recon with invoice data from Finance
• Structure and manage integrated, multi-track projects and/or programs of multiple projects.
• Manage projects with cross team dependency (example IE 8 rollout, Windows 7 etc.)
• Maintain high level program plan and review dependencies weekly with team
• Facilitate inter project communication and responsible for integration lane and deployment calendars.
• Maintain overall Release Management Calendar to ensure transparency of production impacting releases.
• Works closely with business/development program managers to document inter-project risks
• Oversee project estimations; Build and structure the project teams to ensure maximum performance
• Responsible for Resource Allocation across multiple project teams in a “pooled” resource methodology. Maintain / Track resource allocation by project and facilitate weekly resource reallocation meetings
• Coordinate work and change requests with Infrastructure / App Support teams and Product Managers
• Quarterly Reporting on time spent on production support vs. enhancements
• Manage Data Maintenance and Support team and provide planning / prioritization for support issues (based on feedback from project managers)
• Perform team / release cycle assessments and evaluations; Efficiently identify and solve project issues
• Ensure the use of best practices and applies lessons learned from previous projects across the program
• Responsible for project management toolset for assigned business unit and project reporting standards. Maintain program tracking information systems
• Lead the development and tracking of integrated project plans. Set project quality and performance standards. Assess and manage risk within, and across, multiple projects.
• Gather vendor evaluations from Project Managers and consolidate for review by PMO / IT management
• Liaison to the Project Management Office to ensure PLC process across all technology initiatives are aligned properly.
• Mentor and coach project team members, as appropriate.



TECHNOLOGY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
• Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high quality applications.
• Experience with reporting status for multiple technology initiatives
• Experience with project management and reporting toolsets and reporting
• Exposure to investment concepts / terminology and systems related to fixed income investments
• Exposure to financial application implementation related to fixed income investments
• Familiarity with multiple architectures: n-tier, .NET, client-server, etc. and multi-system application integration
• Fundamental understanding of software development lifecycle.




Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.