Project Manager

You will be entrusted with the following: 

• Planning and managing the overall projects ensuring they are within project budgets and scheduled timelines.
• Manage, communicate, and set realistic expectations including issuing and obtaining approval for project change requests, based on project risks, issues, actions and decisions.
• Managing and coordinating team members to gather requirements and estimates of effort for proposals.
• Providing Project oversight and coordination for successful delivery of projects.
• Interacting and managing the client for successful project delivery.
• Managing weekly/monthly status reports for the projects. 
• Ensuring that both client and team Technical Standards and Guidelines are followed.
• Developing and executing project plans for multiple small to medium sized initiatives as required.
• Developing and/or updating process and procedure documentation as required.
• Providing governance for quality assurance processes and ensuring quality control and quality assurance processes are followed. 
• Conducting lessons learned and completing formal closure of projects.

 

Mandatory Skills Matrix:

• Have very strong verbal and written communication skills in dealing with external clients, internal stakeholders, senior management and staff - Min 8 Years
• These communication skills include the ability to effectively communicate to technical and non- technical individuals - Min 8 Years
• Communication style must be diplomatic, succinct, articulate and demonstrates active listening- Min 8 Years
• Experience successfully managing application development and IT infrastructure projects to industry best practice and standards - Min 8 Years
• Experience in client facing roles. - Min 8 Years
• A team player, collaborative and independently driven - Min 8 Years
• Must demonstrate a flexible open-minded attitude and have strong interpersonal skills - Min 8 Years
• Experience in project management and project oversight and coordination - Min 8 Years 
• Experience in project level reporting/status reports - Min 6 Years
• Experience estimating changes including experience leading a team through estimating exercises and reviewing estimates provided by team members - Min 4 Years
• Experience effectively leading meetings and facilitating groups to reach consensus - Min 6 Years
• Hands-on experience in a structured application maintenance environment - Min 8 Years
• Experience working in a maintenance environment following proper processes and procedures and following a formal methodology - Min 5 Years

Desirable Skills Matrix:

• PMP certification Current Experience and knowledge of web-based applications - Min 3 Years 
• Experience with public facing applications and application support -  Min 3 Years
• Experience working with the public sector- Min 3 Years

Fujitsu is looking for a Senior Information Technology Project Manager to join an application maintenance services team to perform project management duties for application development and modernization projects. This is a great opportunity for someone with significant experience working with clients, estimating and providing Project Management oversight and coordination with the maintenance team across a portfolio of applications. This individual will have a strong background in applying and utilizing project management best practices and standards within application development projects.