SoHo Dragon

SoHo Dragon represents a Fortune 500 Financial Technology firm with offices in Morristown, NJ  that needs to hire a Senior Project Manager for a full time opportunity.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate and direct staff to ensure the completion of client project deliverables
• Interface with clients, product owners, scrum masters and other organizational staff to coordinate project planning, scheduling, monitoring, risks, issues, and resource assignment activities
• Collaborate with Implementation Specialists on client projects
• Work closely with team to define and review the technical scope, requirements, deliverables (including resource effort and durations) estimates prior to presenting project plans to customers
• Maintain and manage client relationship and expectations
• Organize and participate in meetings with customers and project team members and ensure timely communications
• Provide resolution to project issues resulting in disruption to customer activities or escalate as needed
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize project progress by preparing project status reports for upper management
• Assist teams with the problem resolution to include root cause analysis, problem resolution and recommendations to senior staff
• Recommend and institutionalize improvements to project execution and delivery processes

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Ability to clearly communicate with Senior Executives
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Banking Systems background
• Positive can-do attitude (but not a “yes” person)
• PMP Certification
• Agile experience (PMI-ACP is a plus)
• Information Technology Experience
• Bachelor of Science degree in the information systems or engineering field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a project engineer or project manager, preferably in the Financial Institution or related field.
• Proven leadership skills and positive customer and sales force interaction
• Proven effective communication skills

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Microsoft Tools (Office, Sharepoint, Advanced MS Excel)
• Project Management tools (e.g., MS Project, smartsheet)
• Other: Jira, ServicePoint, Clarity. Must be able to quickly learn new technologies, platforms and architectures.