Big Data - Project Manager

Location: Stamford, CT, us

Company Description

blueStone Recruiting is a national search firm with a focus of placing top Big Data talent from the Analyst level to Architects with prestigious organizations nationwide

Job Description

Our client is a Pharmaceutical company and is seeking a subject matter Big Data Project Manager. 

Qualifications

• Providing project management support to IT management for data foundation work stream
• Managing and guiding a team to carry out detail project management activities effectively on a day to day – effectively tracking tasks and reporting progress
• Build and manage end to end Project plans
• Resource, budget management for IM work stream
• Leading related calls and meetings to drive progression and problem resolution.
• Stake-holder/relationship management to ensure that messages/updates are timely, objective, factual and consistent.
• Adherence to program governance at all times. 
• Support technical resources and others in the delivery ‘circle’ as/when needed.

The major challenges of the role includes:

• Delivery in line with expectation.
  
• Stake-holder/relationship management.
• Steady head in a fast-changing environment.
• Focus on the problem at hand and not allowing distraction

Skill, Experience & General information Required:

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with experience of successfully influencing others, negotiating effectively and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations 
• Proven experience and understanding of Big Data from a technical perspective.
• Experience of operating in similar-sized organisations.
• Good technical understanding ex Big Data, majoring on data and information services.
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Technical 

• Broad knowledge of Big Data tools and their capabilities
• Good technical understanding of the following Big Data Technologies 
• Infrastructure, Data Quality and Governance
• Data replication, streaming and extraction

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