Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Job Title: Project Manager III
Location:Houston, TX 77002
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- The Project Manager will be responsible for planning, executing, reporting, and overseeing the delivery of software and technology projects while following the established Client IT project management methodology.
- The Project Manager will support these job functions:
Project Planning & Execution:
- Lead technical projects from initiation through implementation, including RFP development, vendor selection, proof of concept, requirements gathering, design, development/configuration, testing integration, data conversion, user acceptance, go-live, and project close.
- Manage projects across diverse technology domains such as Client applications, infrastructure upgrades, data platforms, digital transformation initiatives, and IT support operations.
- Coordinate and oversee the utilization of shared resources across multiple projects, ensuring effective allocation and prioritization requirements are met
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, secure and organize resources, coordinate project activities, monitor budgets, assess dependencies, and manage project issues.
- Monitor project progress and adjust resources and priorities accordingly.
- Assess project dependencies, risks, budget constraints, and resource conflicts to ensure successful implementation, including contingency planning.
- Support continuous improvement of project management methodologies and tools.
IT Leadership & Technical Alignment with the Business:
- Ensure all team members are aligned on the business requirements, design documents, and any other technical requirements. This can include current and future process documentation.
- Maintain a strong understanding of both business and technical issues to manage resources and deliverables effectively.
- Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure solutions meet operational and strategic needs.
Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Build and lead high-performing teams by leveraging individual strengths, technology, and organizational processes.
- Coordinate with stakeholders across IT, operations, vendors, and compliance to ensure seamless execution.
- Foster strong working relationships across all levels of the organization, exercising flexibility, professionalism, and diplomacy.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and alignment across departments and leadership levels.
Analysis & Communication
- Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies to leadership.
- Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis and proactive identification of improvement opportunities.
- Analyze and report project status, synthesizing complex information for decision-making.
- Communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats with staff, management, and executives.
Adaptability & Decision-Making
- Manage shifting priorities in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Make well-informed decisions under pressure, balancing strategic goals with operational realities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, MIS, CIS, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing multiple, complex projects.
- Demonstrated success in building and leading project teams using both internal and external resources.
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication, negotiation, influencing, organizational, and facilitation skills.
- Proficient in both Waterfall and Agile development methodologies.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with MS Project, Azure DevOps (TFS), Microsoft Office Suite, and Vision
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Houston, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $111.73–$125 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Contingency Plansunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Conversionunmatched
- Delivery Managementunmatched
- Design Documentunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Integration Testingunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft Projectunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Project Evaluationunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Management Professional (PMP)unmatched
- Project Management Softwareunmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Coordinationunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Proof of Conceptunmatched
- Proposal Developmentunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Resource Managementunmatched
- Resource Utilizationunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Software Upgradesunmatched
- Status Reportsunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Team Foundation Server (TFS)unmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Technical Deliveryunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Waterfall Model of Software Developmentunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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