Role: Project Lead
Location: Austin, TX (78744) Hybrid
Long Term W2 Contract
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for communications to Project Sponsors and internal team for accomplishment of project’s objectives.
- Lead: Serves as the primary point of contact for project delivery aspects for this application and is responsible for communication and status reporting.
- Identify resources available to complete project assignments in a timely manner and identify potential risks, constraints, and issues that may have an impact on the project and is responsible for the development of strategies to address them.
- Responsible for coordination with the IT Operations and Security for any infrastructure or security assessments required for the applications.
- Perform other duties as assigned by branch manager.
- Works under limited supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
- Maintains and utilizes detailed industry and internal services knowledge in the construction of industry-leading services solutions, including expert working level knowledge of the processes, technologies, and people components involved in the services arena.
- As needed, provide a “trusted expert advisor” role as a Subject Matter Expert for technical services, to both internal and external customers, ranging from formal advice to internal and external customer presentations.
Minimum Yrs of Experience, Skills, and Qualifications: 8 years of each
- Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and SDLC.
- Experience in working with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and release features.
- Exhibits excellent analytical, problem-solving, team playing, and communication skills.
- Experience with Project Management Life Cycle, the Agile Development Life Cycle.
- Experience in meeting tight deadlines.
- Experience in communicating program objectives, goals, and progress to program directors, executives, upper management, and stakeholders.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications: 3 years of each
- Service-Now Dashboards, Visual Task Boards, Leading and Coordinating Projects.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Service-Now.
- Driving communication between customers and vendors.