Project Manager – IT Project Delivery

Veriipro; Warren Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking an accomplished IT Project Manager with 10+ years of experience leading complex technology initiatives from inception to production support. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage risks, and ensure governance and executive visibility.

In this role you will develop integrated project plans, track milestones in Jira, and drive delivery while collaborating with business stakeholders and vendors to meet timelines and quality objectives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT project management and technology delivery.
• Proven track record managing multiple IT projects concurrently.
• Strong planning, scheduling, and milestone management.
• Experience with Jira for tracking and reporting.
• Knowledge of APIs, integrations, and dependencies.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Proven governance, RAID management, and executive reporting.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to align technical delivery with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple IT projects from initiation through production support.
• Develop integrated project plans covering scope, milestones, and risks.
• Drive execution against milestones and address risks.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Manage RAID logs and executive status reporting.
• Track progress using Jira and maintain epics, stories, and tasks.
• Coordinate testing, release planning, and go-live activities.
• Resolve API integration and cross-system dependency issues.
• Manage commitments with SIs, vendors, and service providers.
• Communicate status and mitigation plans to leadership.
• Support implementation of third-party software and production transition.
• Ensure deliverables meet scope, quality, and objectives.

Skills

IT project management

Multiple projects

Jira

APIs and integration

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Governance and RAID

Tools

Jira

Job description

We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager with 10+ years of experience managing multiple technology projects from initiation through implementation and transition to production support. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in project planning, cross-functional team coordination, risk management, stakeholder communication, and delivery governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple IT projects concurrently from initiation through implementation and transition to production support.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables.
• Drive project execution against committed milestones and proactively address schedule, scope, resource, and delivery risks.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams, including application development, architecture, infrastructure, QA/testing, security, operations, and production support.
• Manage project governance, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies), action items, decisions, and executive-level status reporting.
• Track project progress, epics, stories, tasks, defects, dependencies, and milestones using Jira.
• Coordinate testing, implementation planning, release readiness, go-live activities, and post-production stabilization.
• Work closely with technical teams to resolve API integration, application integration, and cross-system dependency issues.
• Manage commitments, deliverables, timelines, and escalations with system integrators (SIs), product vendors, and third-party service providers.
• Communicate project status, delivery risks, issues, and mitigation plans to business stakeholders and technology leadership.
• Support implementation of third-party packaged software, including configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and production transition.
• Ensure project deliverables meet agreed scope, quality standards, timelines, and business objectives.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT project management and technology delivery.
• Proven experience managing multiple IT projects simultaneously.
• Strong expertise in project planning, scheduling, resource management, dependency tracking, and milestone management.
• Hands-on experience with Jira for project tracking, delivery management, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of APIs, application integrations, and technical dependencies.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and third-party vendors.
• Expertise in project governance, RAID management, executive reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience coordinating QA/testing, release management, implementation, go-live, and production stabilization.
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage both technical delivery discussions and business-level stakeholder expectations.