IT Project Manager
Oak Brook, IL
6+ month contract to hire
The Global Data and Analytics Platform team actively leads multiple initiatives for data analytics to explain our digital journey. A successful candidate will be required to manage multiple cross functional projects within scope, schedule, and cost from conception to completion, partnering with multiple stakeholders including business partners, vendors, and internal team members.
Responsibilities: - Key success factors include a customer-first mindset, intermediate/proficient project leadership abilities, ability to function in a fast paced environment requiring multitasking, problem solving skills, translating business requirements into technology solutions, and executing projects.
- Participates in creating the project charter, the schedule, the milestones, the scope, and resource requirements.
- Collaborate, provide feedback, and partner with vendors and business partners for data application releases and deployment
- Ensure that the Project Team completes the project objectives within scope, schedule, cost, to clients satisfaction
- Drives issue resolution through issue and risk tracking and facilitating issue closure. Escalates issues appropriately
- Adheres to the quality assurance process that will ensure the overall quality and continual improvement of the project deliverables
- Provide guidance, direction, management of resources, including prioritizing work and developing team members.
- Follows the rules of engagement for the project, e.g., the standards used, the executive sponsorship/governance group and structure, team guidelines, issue escalation, etc.
- Assist with managing the budget, including reforecasting the budget
- Measure project performance against predefined metrics and baselines and take action to control the project to the baselines
- Communicate/Report to stakeholders project status on a regular basis
Required: - Bachelor's degree in CS, IT or other similar field, from an accredited college/university
- 7+ years professional experience in Information Technology
- 5+ years' experience with software development, testing, integration, deployment, and operations preferably experience with POS systems
- 1-2 years of professional web technologies experiences, e.g. data transport, cloud computing, design and development
Desired Skills: - Ability to manage multiple projects with dependencies and deliver on time and budget
- Proven team management, decision making and task prioritization skills
- Strong communication skills, ability to adapt communications to audience
- Ability to perform and deliver in a challenging, fast paced, rapidly changing environment
- Technical development and data integration skills are a plus
- Experienced testing background with a high attention to detail
- Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly, solid ability to translate technical verbiage into easily understandable language for the customer.
- Experience with the Big Data Cloud based applications a plus
NTT DATA Services is a leading IT services provider and global innovation partner with 130,000 professionals based in over 50 countries. NTT DATA recently acquired Dell Services. NTT DATA Services emphasizes long-term commitment and combines global reach and local intimacy to provide premier professional services, including consulting, application services, business process, IT outsourcing, and cloud-based solutions. We are a part of NTT Group, one of the world's largest technology services companies, generating more than $100 billion in annual revenues and partner to 80% of the Fortune 100. Visit www.nttdataservices.com to learn how our consultants, projects, managed services, and outsourcing engagements deliver value for a wide range of businesses and government agencies.
The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result.
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