Project Manager
Kforce Inc.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Project Manager in Boca Raton, FL.Responsibilities:

• Project Manager will manage the delivery of a complexed funded business case budget, feature workstreams, in parallel with other project work allocation
• Identify, make recommendations for improvement to existing processes, implement, and enforce best delivery practice within the agreed framework
• Manage all phases of the project through the Product Development process
• Enforce the capturing of productivity metrics, raise and address gaps, early escalation, and effective reporting of progress and accomplishments
• Define key performance parameters and create regular variance reports to track progress
• Ensure effective communication plan with roles and responsibilities, managing resources in multiple time zones
• Negotiate with Engineering Resource Managers for project resources in multiple time zones
• As a Project Manager, you will maintain compliance with corporate and financial regulations
• Perform data analysis relevant to project tasks
• Request resource demand and review resource allocation for projects
• Maintain ownership of and accountability for the project schedule

REQUIREMENTS:

• Project Certification (APMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum Master, etc.) required
• 10+ years of IT Project Delivery experience in Cloud environments
• Experience with using Jira and Confluence
• Project leadership experience
• Experience working with a broad range of organizations, from start-up to global enterprise
• Experience working within a regulated industry, ideally Financial Services or Betting and Gaming
• Background in IT Cloud industry as a software development project manager, IT program/project manager, agile software manager or scrum master
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle
• Agile knowledge required, particularly experience of SCRUM and scaled delivery (i.e. SAFe, SCRUM@Scale, LeSS, etc.)
• Experience using MS Office and Jira
• Experience coordinating team workflow in a very fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Experience partnering with other project stakeholders to resolve issues and to mitigate project impacts
• Experience delivering on projects of various size and duration
• Highly adaptable to rapidly changing priorities within the organization
• Strong professionalism and interpersonal skills

Ability to:

• Present and report in a concise and effective manner, ensuring messages are received, understood, and all parties are aligned
• Motivate or inspire others to aim for higher levels of achievement
• Adopt new ways of doing things in pursuit of adding value to customers and the team
• Actively foster diversity and inclusion, valuing and respecting differences to achieve team harmony and enable higher team performance
• Learn from challenging experiences, recover, and continue making progress towards objectives without reducing pace
• Align short-term priorities with strategic and long-term objectives

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