IT Project Manager jobs in East Hartford, CT

Description

This is a great opportunity for someone who is adept at managing projects within a PMO, communicating with key stakeholders and delivering value based on changing expectations. We are seeking a Mid-level to Sr-level Project Manager to start immediately. This Project Manager position through Robert Half Technology is for someone who likes the idea of being at the center of our client's strategic business plan. Apply today!

Major responsibilities

- Provides detailed reporting to management on project status, risk assessments, and milestone completion

- Forms schedules and milestones, manages project scope and timelines, and inputs from all other teams assigns to that product

- Interacts with the Product Owner/Product Manager to turn the product roadmap into executable projects

- Coordinates and directs the sprint planning and grooming meetings and marks ticket assignments

- Functions as Scrum Master for the developers on the team - clearing obstacles, ensuring the team is working effectively, and leading scrum ceremonies

- Arranges the daily stand-ups, assuring they are focused, timely, and brief

- Cooperates and communicates with developers, technical team members, designers, and stakeholders

- Secure that the functional requirements are achievable, tracked, and met

- Assembles report from business analysts, QA leads, and technical leads into an analysis

- Lead the team focus on the on-time delivery of agreed products

- Provides the RACI matrix for projects in a product line

- Verifies project with exact ticket workflows and boards

- Administers deployment scheduling in coordination with tech lead, Product Owner, and Dev Ops

- Tracks and schedules projects - as per the Project Roadmap defined by the Business Owner

- In partnership with the Product Owner/Product Manager, you will facilitate creation and maintenance of the Project Roadmap

- Assist cross-product teams to manage dependencies

- Oversees project planning

- Cooperate closely with the Product Specialist, QA Manager, Business Analyst, Product Owner/Product Manager

- Works with Product Owner/Product Manager to ensure that the product vision and high-level business objectives are clear and achievable

- Betters to manage, classify, and identify risk for functional improvement requests

Requirements

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization

- Experience in utilizing resource tools to manage capacity, forecast, demand and allocation of people

- Experience leading medium to large custom and/or complex software development and/or implementation projects

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent of education and work experience

- 5 years of project management experience

- Knowledge of Agile delivery teams, projects and programs

- Comfortable managing complex cross-functional and technology projects

- Skilled in technical applications including MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, etc.) and JIRA or similar application

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