Project Manager

Sciata; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 60,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Project Manager to craft and deliver technology-enabled solutions, focusing on managing IT projects from strategy to execution. This role requires strong project management skills, a Bachelor's degree, and relevant certifications. Ideal for someone with technical project management experience and a proactive approach to stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a project management role focusing on IT solutions.
• PMP, CSM, CSPO certifications preferred.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive and manage assigned projects tied to the enterprise-wide tech roadmap.
• Create, manage, and deliver projects with strong stakeholder alignment.
• Monitor and manage vendors and vendor relationships.

Skills

Microsoft Suite

Change management

Time Management

Organizational knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science

Tools

Lucid Chart

JIRA

Job description

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Seeking a professional to work remotely with occasional travel to Austin, TX! This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with a great company that continues to grow!

Education/Experience

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field preferred.

3+ years of experience in a project management role focusing on delivering IT solutions.

Understanding of and experience with people management, systems, and procedures.

Technical project management experience managing the full project lifecycle.

Certificates/Licenses

PMP, CSM, CSPO, PBA, or CBAP certification preferred.

Position Objective

The individual is responsible for crafting and delivering technology-enabled solutions via projects that are well defined, well structured, and adhere to best practices. They guide the overall course of the project from strategy and vendor selection and directly create details including project plans, detailed requirements, business process design, test cases, etc. This role collaborates with technology architects and leads to ensure that technology design and business requirements remain in sync.

Critical Duties

Drive and manage assigned projects tied to the enterprise-wide tech roadmap.

Identify and/or mitigate risk and manage dependencies with competing project initiatives.

Monitor and/or manage vendors and vendor relationships, including SOW development and adherence, managing invoicing and resources, etc.

Oversee project-level budget and collaborate with the Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure the project stays on budget.

Provide project status updates to IT leadership and PMO as required, including program schedule, delivery milestones, estimated completion dates, program risks, resource utilization, etc.

Create, manage, and deliver projects with strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in, including strategy, scope, timeline, and measurable KPIs.

Drive close project collaboration across business, technology, and third-party teams.

Create project plans, communicate them to stakeholders, and keep the plans updated.

Mediate conflicting development priorities among cross-functional teams to keep the team focused on delivery.

Actively map, study and address project risks and issues by elaborating a mitigation and/or response plan.

Create Gate Deck presentations to apply best practices and capture ideas effectively to standards with limited coaching.

Essential Duties

Identify resource and equipment requirements for assigned projects, including efficient capacity planning and managing software and hardware availability.

Contribute to continuous improvements in the Company Collaboration Framework and project management practices.

Create appropriate project artifacts, including project requirements and business goals, in the standard toolsets for managed projects.

Create functional requirements, including product description, defining product features, user requirements, and present them as user stories.

Create, write, and execute test cases that tie to design requirements and record results with direct traceability to user stories.

Prepare, present, and distribute project information to all levels in the Company, as well as other internal and external stakeholders.

Create, define, and explain UML and modeling experience to communicate a standard way of visualizing the design of a system.

Learn and have knowledge of the business domain areas of projects assigned to ensure the business KPI goals of a project sponsor and stakeholder are met.

Contribute to good practices for version control of artifacts, including tracking, managing, updates, and/or changes to software code.

Collaborate with the Technology Team, including Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst, Technology Architects, QA Engineer, etc., to document project artifacts including deployment model, sequence diagrams, etc.

Assist with managing software defects and enhancement requests.

Assist and contribute to software deployment plans.

Manage, support, and synthesize the work of project team members.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the minimum knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Experience with Lucid Chart, JIRA, or similar.

Change management, process documentation, and testing tools.

Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Epics and Personas.

Student housing industry preferred.

Skills

Microsoft Suite with proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.

Information technology migrations and integrations.

Time Management.

Organizational and analytical knowledge.

Working with cross-functional teams in a fast-growing, rapidly changing environment.

Effective communication, interpersonal, and collaboration.

Ability to

Work independently as a self-starter with a hands-on approach.

Demonstrate knowledge and use of structured business analysis and project management techniques.

Read, analyze, and interpret business/financial reports, and legal documents.

Read, understand, and communicate technical documents.

Remain detail-oriented while multi-tasking across multiple priorities and projects, including personal workload and team workload.

Prioritize, manage competing priorities, and make decisions in ambiguous situations.

Facilitate in requirement gathering situations.

Manage multiple projects, understand systems capabilities, and operation procedures.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is regularly required to talk/hear, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel or crouch.

The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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