Project Manager - Portal Application Implementation at GVA Partners

Job Description

• Competency: At least 9 years IT project management and delivery experience with Tier 1 Telco, Banking Customers. Experience in portal application delivery
• Engagement Period 4-5 Months
• Skill Expectation & Role Responsibility
• Should have 8-9 years’ project delivery experience with overall IT experience expected is 12-14 years
• Sound functional knowledge of Project delivery with certification on PMP
• Familiar with Telecom processes - CRM, Sales, Supply chain, ERP
• Experience in gathering requirements from client, implementing the solution and maintaining the environment for Intranet/Internet applications and making enhancements on a continuous basis, preparing training manuals and conducting training of end users on web based applications.
• Experience in Portal Technologies - Liferay, Sharepoint scripting
• At least 4 years’ experience as a project manager in Portal implementations for larger enterprise clients across all phases of the project life-cycle, including a global roll-out.
• At least 5 years’ experience in managing project teams of 10+ FTEs, including being responsible for team staffing and performance evaluations of team resources.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills. Schedule and coordinate the company's project resources based out of India to ensure right bench utilization and project profitability.
• Work along with company's project team Technical architect, Business analysts, developers, Testers and business stakeholders managing overall deliverables of design, build, and test & deploy implementation of liferay portal solution, conforming to the clients Project Delivery Framework and default information security framework.
• Experience in using and managing Test management suites like HP ALM, Project management Tools , MS Project
• Liaison with Test lead, Project manager, Portal development team of company based out of India as well as collaborating with company's onshore BA and architect
• Work in collaboration with customers testing team, deployment teams and IT project owners
• The ability to manage software development with an off-shore development team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Leadership and strong team working skills.
• Setting and controlling the scope of the project
• Communicating status and vision to client management
• Delivering the project on time, on budget and within the agreed specifications
• Ensuring that the project team is following the approved project plan
• Performing the project financial management
• Be able to effectively scope out the work and provide accurate estimates
• Be able to manage the deliverables by self and others
• Self-motivated.
• Experienced in all phases of software life cycle like requirement analysis, designing, developing, installing, configuring and maintaining applications and project documentations.
• Excellent hands-on experience dealing with the onsite – offshore model and client interaction.
• Effective result oriented team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent and result oriented project leading skill.
• Client engagement to get more business for the organization.

Tools & Expertise

• Software Methodologies/Project Management
• Agile/ SCRUM/ Waterfall
• Project Planning
• Proposal Creation
• Project Management using MS Project, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.
• MS-Office 2013/2010/2007/2003/XP/2000/98/95.
• Source Control Management Tools
• SVN
• Test Management Tools
• HP ALM
• Technology Platforms
• .NET/Java
• LIferay /Sharepoint Portal
• Database: MS SQL Server 2012, 2008 & 2005/ SQL Server 2008/2005/2000