Cloud Project Manager

Cloud Project Manager

Kaizen Analytix LLC, an analytics products and services company that gives clients unmatched speed to value through analytics solutions and actionable business insights, is seeking qualified candidates for a Cloud Project Manager. Responsibilities, capabilities for success, requirements, and the ideal candidate for this position are provided below.

Responsibilities:

Lead client technical and analytics engagements – consisting of technical implementations and custom / packaged analytics solutions – by…

• Managing core delivery teams of Kaizen and non-Kaizen (clients, third parties) resources that possess technology, cloud and data science skill sets
• Managing multiple work streams from acquisition and planning through successful delivery 
• Address problems through excellent decision-making and innovative, strategic ideas
• Implementing solutions in either client or Kaizen environments
• Managing technical resources with working understanding of the development process, SDLC, and programming languages to provide guidance and oversight

Capabilities for Success:

Candidate should demonstrate an ability to…

• Understand technology environments: current state, problem, goals/objectives and their business value, obstacles, and impacted client constituents 
• Rigorously manage requirements through the project lifecycle by establishing and maintaining agreements between technical client constituents and core delivery team (project domain), ensuring source control, change control and development best practices are followed

• Ensure requirements are specified in a manner suitable for intended audience and are understandable, unambiguous and capable of being implemented and tested 
• Facilitate a critical communications role by interacting with core delivery team members (project domain), and development personnel (technical domain)
• Ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders, and turn business needs into technical requirements
• Ability to identify technical project risks and support risk resolution
• Ability to understand the technical and functional goals of a release or sprint, not just as a function as a project administrator

• Drive procedures and methodologies to ensure requirements have been implemented successfully 
• Facilitate a critical communications role by interacting with project owner (client team member), users (business domain), project team members and development personnel (technical domain)
• Present analysis, models and insights as executive summary to client teams and internal groups
• Build cloud-based solutions with related IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Support implementation of cloud-native platforms and Agile application development technologies in areas of software development, integration and test of software applications and infrastructure

• Design and develop enterprise level cloud software application framework using Cloud-based tools, and technologies.
• Work with counterpart consulting teams to create automated CI/CD pipelines in Agile software development frameworks and methodologies
• Develop working knowledge of new models and solution techniques which could be leveraged across projects
• Present analysis, models, and insights as an executive summary to client teams and internal groups

Job Requirements:

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in project management, computer science, cloud technology, or related disciplines; Experience in programming, software engineering, testing / quality assurance

• Minimum 1 year experience in programming or software engineering
• Minimum 3 year experience managing technical development projects
• Preferred: 3 years in a client-facing, consulting role for technology solutions

• Certifications in one or more of the following: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD); Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA); Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS); Google Professional Data Engineer; AWS (Amazon Web Services) Developer - Associate; Azure MCSA: Cloud Platform Core Skills: strong communication skills; excellent people management skills; mindset of “own it all the way through solution”; demonstrated experience managing projects or engagements
• Extensive experience building data pipelines
• Experience with databases, cache technologies and queue technologies (SQS).
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting technologies (Grafana, Influx DB, Graphite, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Kibana, New Relic, PagerDuty).
• Experience with stream-processing systems (Storm, Spark-Streaming)

• Practical experience with a variety of cloud native service providers of the CNCF recommended path for orchestration and management, container runtime and provisioning such as: coordination and service discovery, service proxy, API gateway, service mesh container orchestration
• Experience with Test-Driven Development
• Functional Skills: Strong presentation skills; proficient in facilitating meetings of clients.
• Tools: Familiarity with Cloud Technologies
• Project Management: Ability to manage projects using SDLC, PMI, and Agile methodologies

• Has good knowledge about Database Management Systems: Structured and Un-structured Databases and familiarity with: SQL, Hive, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.,
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Ability to travel as dictated by business needs