Information Services Consultant jobs in Newark, NJ

Job Title: - Project Manager

Location: - Jersey City/NYC

Responsibilities

• Project Manage multiple strategic projects concurrently.
• Drive project working group meetings. Create clear and concise status summaries with action items.
• Facilitate communications with the application owners, project sponsors, and other stakeholders.
• Creation of Executive Level dashboards and metrics for reporting
• Documenting Project scope and obtaining sponsor approvals.
• Create and manage project plans. Track and escalate risks and issues.
• Conducting work sessions with IT and Business to document requirements
• Work with IT Development and Infrastructure teams to design & build solutions.
• Document QA test plans and execute test cases.
• Work with IT and Business to document UAT test plans/cases. Manage UAT and assist in testing. Track defects & resolutions.
• Work with IT and Business to document Production Implementation & validation plans.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience as a PM preferably in the Financial Industry
• Experience managing the entire SDLC beginning to end for business applications and the required project artifacts (project plans, requirements, test plans, etc)
• Experience with working on a variety of project types (e.g., in-house developed applications, vendor implementations, business only, Infrastructure only)
• Strong skills working with MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Teams, & MS SharePoint. JIRA experience is a plus.
• Strong communication/presentation skills (written and oral) in cross-cultural business environment
• Must be highly energetic, detail-orientated, and extremely proactive, and be able to perform under pressure in a challenging environment.
• Experience with AWS and Azure Cloud architecture is a plus.
• PMP certification is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree. Computer Science or Information Systems preferred. Advanced degree is a plus