Project Manager I at UST in Bentonville, Arkansas

Job Description:

UST Global is looking for a highly energetic and experienced Technical Project Manager with experience working on complex enterprise data initiatives. The ideal candidate will be able to manage a large data engineering initiative end to end with minimal guidance.

As a Technical Project Manager at UST Global, your key responsibilities include

• Provide Technical project management for last data migration initiatives


• Drive the project end to end taking responsibility and ownership for successfully completing the project on time


• Lead conversations with customer technical project managers/program managers in planning and execution


• Lead and oversee the migration work coordinating with offshore migration teams and onsite leads


• Conduct daily scrums and other scrum ceremonies for project ensuring the sprint plans are met.


• Lead and drive drives business and technical discussions.


• Create roadmap, identify cross team dependencies, coordinate with teams in resolving them in a timely manner


• Provide weekly report to client leadership calling out progress, risks and mitigations


• Should be able to provide clear, concise, timely, and accurate communications (both written and verbal) with the right audience.

You bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a software related discipline. A Master's degree in a related field is an added plus


• 8+ years of experience in technical leadership/project management


• 2+ years of experience in data engineering related field


• Trained or working experience in Azure Data Factory is a plus even though it is not mandatory.

For this role, we value:

• Ability to do drive projects, collaborate with different people and bring outcomes


• Your ownership skills in ensuring the project runs smoothly, identifying risks and mitigating them


• Ability to present and report the status of project in a concise and clear way to senior leadership


• Ability to bring clarity to the problem and lead the team when they lack direction and path forward


• Ability to coordinate with cross functional teams and drive results.


• Technical expertise with data engineering type projects and technical know how

*Understanding and knowledge with Bigdata and different cloud solutions in Data migration.

Overall Experience level:10+years in IT with min 8+ years as a Full Stack developer.

Location: This position will be based in Bentonville, AR

Role Proficiency:

Perform end-to-end management of a single project up to TCV of 500K with time and effort based or deliverable based model; by delivering the agreed scope within the agreed timeline and cost. Ensure the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met enhancing customer satisfaction.

Outcomes:

1. Identify key stakeholders ensuring establishment and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)


2. Maintain regular communication with customer; addressing needs through empathy with their environment


3. Define activities responsibilities critical milestones resources skills needs interfaces and budget. Optimize costs and time utilisation minimize waste and deliver projects on time on budget as per the contract and agreed scope with a high quality result.


4. Anticipate all possible risk manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; while developing contingency plans.


5. Implement the governance model defined for similar projects


6. Track and reports project KPIs and analyze project health


7. Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs


8. Provide individual and team mentoring; ensuring high levels of team engagement and developing capabilities within team


9. Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams

Measures of Outcomes:

1. Sprint velocity/team productivity


2. Planned schedule vs actual


3. Planned effort vs actual


4. Planned cost vs actual


5. Retention


6. Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change management


7. Product quality (rework effort defect density defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects)


8. Risk management index


9. Adoption of reusable components and artefacts


10. Customer satisfaction


11. Team satisfaction

Outputs Expected:

Scope Management :

1. Conduct requirements analysis requirements elicitation scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management


2. Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents traceability matrix bridge documents analysis methodologies and solution artefacts


3. Partner with the customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop


4. Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization

Estimation and Resource Planning:

1. Consolidate estimates at a solution level evaluate risks and validate estimates from a technical standpoint with assumptions scope and boundaries defined


2. Review and validate estimates across service lines


3. Conduct resource planning (pyramid people development) at a project level based on project requirements


4. Conduct impact analysis for changes and analyze corresponding impact to overall estimates and resource loading


5. Identify the different roles and skills for each role considering the constraints pre-requisites and other project specific KPIs

Project/ Schedule Management:

1. Plan and manage multiple small projects/ modules as defined within UST


2. Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement the same to manage simple small projects/ modules


3. Anticipate items that cause schedule delays schedule dependencies and manage them following the proper risk management plan


4. Identify options to fast track the schedule and plans to implement the same


5. Estimate the work plan and track the activities closely and report the progress on a regular basis

Risk/Issue management:

1. Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact the project KPIs. Obtain agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on the plan


2. Identify and closely track the risks in the project and follow escalation path


3. Document the risks and issues in the project communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track the impact

Stakeholder Management:

1. Identify the internal and external stakeholders on the project


2. Define the RACIA chart and communicate the roles/responsibilities to the stakeholders


3. Define the communication plan and implement the same

Test and Defect Management :

1. Support system integration testing (functional / technical)


2. Review/mentor team during test execution


3. Support defining the test strategy and scenarios


4. Understand the business impact of defects


5. Prioritize the defects based on their criticality and severity


6. Participate in defect triage meetings


7. Identify and analyse root cause of defects


8. Interpret the results

Software Development Process Tools & Techniques:

1. Define/adopt the right tooling strategy for the project


2. Independently guide the team to develop efficient and high-quality work products


3. Meet project goals ensure process compliance and mentor the team

Governance:

1. Tailor organization's quality guidelines and benchmarks to meet specific project quality requirements and processes

Domain / Industry Knowledge:

1. Understand how the proposed solution meets client requirements

Technology Concepts:

1. Understand customer's technology landscape


2. Map business requirements to technology requirements


3. Set expectations with the customer


4. Leverage that knowledge in day-to-day work or in upgrading skills of the team

Profitability Management:

1. Analyze profitability for project


2. Create profitability sheet based on resource plan


3. Modify parameters within profitability sheet and identify impact on margins

Pricing Models:

1. Define the pricing models for medium complex projects


2. Conduct estimation for medium complex projects.

Knowledge Management (KM):

1. Establish a KM plan and platform that can be leveraged by new joiners to the project


2. Ensure the learning's from the project are contributed to the KM repository

Account Management Processes and Tools:

1. Work under the guidance of the account manager to drive the account management KPIs relevant for the project


2. Collaborate with other projects and enabling functions to deliver value to UST and to the customer in terms of ideas automation etc

Solution Structuring:

1. Present the proposed solution to customer highlighting the solution benefits


2. Understand the end in mind and the relevance of win themes


3. Carve out simple solution / POC to build confident in the solution

Self-Development and Organizational initiatives:

1. Review other project artefacts and assess the health of the same


2. Actively participate in forums like PM forums and share best practices and learnings from own projects


3. Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools from other projects to improve productivity and quality

Team Development:

1. Implement a framework to assess the skill level of the team and work with the team to define a skill enhancement plan


2. Nurture the innovation potential within the team


3. Provide feedback and enable the team to perform independently and grow

Skill Examples:

1. Impact and Influence


2. Identify project risks and define action plans to manage


3. Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual project tasks


4. Communicate project progress to all relevant parties reporting on topics such as cost control schedule achievements quality control risk avoidance and changes to project specifications


5. Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions appropriately


6. Assess the project heath using quantitative measures and change the course of action as needed

Knowledge Examples:

Additional Comments:

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