Project Manager - Omani Nationals

ProgressSoft Corporation; Muscat; On-site; OMR 15,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology solutions company is seeking a skilled Project Manager/Business Analyst to lead IT projects and ensure effective business analysis. The ideal candidate will manage project deliverables from initiation through completion while collaborating with various stakeholders to meet client needs. Applicants should have 5-10 years of relevant experience, strong communication skills, and a solid understanding of project management methodologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in IT Technical Fields / Project Management and Business Analysis.
• Excellent command of the English language.
• Experience with data warehouses or databases is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT projects, ensuring quality and customer satisfaction.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, and test business process solutions.
• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills

Project Management

Business Analysis

Communication Skills

Time Management

Data Mapping

Education

BS/BA

PMP Certification

CBAP Certification

Job description

We are looking to recruit a Project manager that can perform in a dual role as Project Manager/Business Analyst. As Project Manager: Managing a variety of IT projects and reporting to the Project Management Office. Work with clients, stakeholders, senior executives, the project team, functional and IT SMEs to ensure those project deliverables are achieved on schedule with a high level of quality and customer satisfaction. As Business Analyst: The Business Analyst (BA) has the responsibility to elicit, analyze, validate, verify, and facilitate testing of business process solutions and requirements of the project.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively and effectively with team members.
• Plan, coordinate & manage projects, and resources, from ideation through post-production support.
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams, and support teams; support the project through implementation and post-project support.
• Write requirements' specifications according to standard templates and tools.
• Decompose high-level business needs into structured requirements, use cases, user stories/scenarios, business rules, functional and non-functional requirements; with sufficient detail to satisfy the needs of the business, developers, and testers.
• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable and that they conform to standards.
• Develop Business Requirements Document and represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, wireframes where appropriate.
• Participate in requirements prioritization and solution risk analysis.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and draft UAT test plans, ensure test data is available and draft test cases.
• Participate in testing and quality assurance process.
• Collaborate with developers and end-users to ensure that application functionality meets client needs, test solutions, problem-solve issues, coordinate enhancements.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in IT Technical Fields / Project Management and Business Analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and presentation.
• Excellent command of the English language (Speaking, writing, and presentation).
• Banking experience required, with knowledge of payment systems being a significant plus.
• Executive Level interpersonal relationship building, collaboration, and facilitation skills.
• Solid understanding and application of various project management and business process improvement methodologies, techniques, and tools.
• A solid understanding of software development life cycles methodologies e.g. SDLC, Agile.
• Essential skills in data mapping and analysis, gap analysis, and system analysis.
• A solid understanding of business analysis and process improvement best practices and the ability to apply them in practice.
• Strong personal time management skills and ability to meet individual and team deadlines.
• BS/BA required PMP, and CBAP certification is preferred.
• Experience in working with data warehouses or databases and integrations is a plus.