IT Project Manager

**Hiring for our Client**:
Who We Are Looking For
This role requires a senior IT Project Manager who can drive strategy and executes high-priority
projects. Actively engage with the project team, client PMs, and BAs in defining the Project plan, key
deliverables & milestones. The role requires a seasoned leader of cross-functional teams in various
global locations. Responsibilities of the Project Manager consist of, but are not limited to:
Stakeholders Management
- Develops and nurtures productive and collaborative relationships across all project

stakeholders
- Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies.
- Assist business units to effectively consult and engage stakeholders on relevant projects.
- Gather/facilitate status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership

pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule
- Ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the

sponsor/stakeholders
Project Time/Schedule/Quality Management
- Manage all phases of the project life cycle (Kick off, Discovery, Ensuring the gathering

and documentation of requirements, Scope Confirmation, Design and build process
flows, creating a Project Schedule, Resource allocation, build, testing and deployment) to
ensure the project is completed on time, within budget requirements and quality
standards.
- Ensure that the team has conducted the diligence to deliver a quality product without any

compromises
Project Integration and Scope Management
- Manage the day-to-day operational aspects for the Synechron Project team by facilitating

agile scrum/activities, events, and meetings, including Kanban board and retrospectives.
- Assist the product owner with program, project, and product updates as well as backlog

refining.
- Partner with team members to ensure clarity of needs and plan for changes, updates,

and new products.
- Coach agile principles to various levels across the business, including stakeholders.
- Remove impediments or guide the team(s) to remove impediments by finding the right

resources to address them.

Project Risk & Issue Management
- Take a proactive approach to manage and communicate risks, assumptions, issues, and

dependencies, and provide identification, coordination, mitigation, or escalation as
necessary
- Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep the

team running at high performance
- Conduct postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their

practices to ensure maximum productivity
Project Human Resource & Communication Management (Relationships/Resourcing)
- Ensure cross-functional coordination; build relationships and collaborate with cross
- functional teams to get alignment on common business/end-user/release goals
- Assist with Program Manager and resource management for the internal technology

team and enterprise-wide for enterprise project resources.
- Own and manage communication plans across projects, which may span multiple teams.

Project Cost Management
- Manage IT project financials - project budget and forecast for IT resources, hardware,

software, and labor.
- Closely monitor the Forecast vs the Actuals cost of the project and share weekly reports

with all the stakeholders.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Minimum of 10 years of project management experience; Preferred with knowledge of the

Retirement Insurance Domain
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Agile delivery methodology
- Demonstrated total ownership behavior and attitude
- Advanced written and oral communication skills
- Proven track record in business and vendor management function
- Proven ability to establish internal processes to successfully manage the execution of

projects
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and proven ability to engage and influence

stakeholders at all levels within an organization
- Ability to promote a culture of collaboration and teamwork across functional and

organizational boundaries to optimize results
- Adapt to utilizing MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and business intelligence tools
- Knowledge of the Retirement Insurance domain is a plus

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business management,

project management, or a related field.
- Master’s degree preferred but not required

Preferred Certifications, Licenses, Registrations
- PMP
- Scrum Master Certification
- SAFe

Other Preferred Training, Technical Skills Or Knowledge
- Jira and Atlassian Suite
- MS Project
- ServiceNow
- Experience with Agile concepts (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)

**About ARKA**:
Arka is a technology-enabled and innovative organization striving to offer the best Staff Augmentation and Contingent workforce solutions in the market. We are passionate about finding you the right fit
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