Project Manager - Java J2EE

Client : Leading global IT services firm 

Benefits: Competative Benefits

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Project Manager - Java J2EE

Long Beach, CA

Full Time (Permanent) Position

Qualifications Basic :

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

• At least 7 years of experience with IT.

• At least 7 years of hands on software development and maintenance experience in IT industry, 3 or more years related experience in project management.

• Experience managing IT projects in J2EE technologies for new development, maintenance and production support.

• Hands on experience in customer IT application development and maintenance.

• Ability to plan, organize, schedule, and implement multiple, large and complex technical projects.

• Ability to manage portfolio of projects.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills.

• Ability to work independently and as a team member, while using discretion in decision making.

• Experience in working in Agile and Iterative Development methodologies

• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment

• Good Knowledge of CMMi Processes.

• Ability to co-ordinate with customer team on a day to day basis.

• Ability to build and nurture relationship with various customer stakeholders.

• Excellent project stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to lead and mentor a team of 10 to 20 developers in achieving project goals.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Skills :

• Drive projects through all SDLC phases, from initial definition and estimation, through to production delivery and support.

• Deliver projects on time, within budget, with quality results that meet customer expectations.

• Follow consistent best practices for project management, and drive process enhancements in collaboration with the team and other project managers in IT.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure projects are planned and prioritized to meet business needs.

• Develop detailed project schedules, project estimates, resource plans, status reports, tracking and reporting progress.

• Proactively manage scope, issues and risks to ensure project success. Follow change control procedures effectively.

• Knowledge of architectural frameworks and design principals, provide inputs to the technical architecture, development team and conduct design reviews.

• Support the team in developing optimized high quality deliverables, perform reviews in order to meet the defined quality SLAs.

• Mange client relationships at the portfolio/project level by engaging them regularly and be the ‘Single Point of Contact’ for the client.

• Perform periodic project reviews, milestone reviews and relationship review with customer stakeholders.

• Reviewing staffing/expansion requirements for the current projects and planning/ training team members for projects.

• Mentoring team members and identifying training needs to build domain/ technical competency.

• Monitoring performance of team members and conducting performance reviews.

• Proactively identify opportunities for expanding footprint of services.

• Support on pre-sales campaign activities and events.

Additional Qualifications Preferred:

• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Analytical skills

• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment.

Thanks,

Shareef

732 276 9933 X 423

Eligibility : Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with client 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.