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Job Description

Project Manager - Java J2EE

Location: Long Beach, CA

Employment: Full Time (Permanent) Position

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 7 years of experience with IT.
• At least 7 years of hands on software development and maintenance experience in IT industry, 3 or more years related experience in project management.
• Experience managing IT projects in J2EE technologies for new development, maintenance and production support.
• Hands on experience in customer IT application development and maintenance.
• Ability to plan, organize, schedule, and implement multiple, large and complex technical projects.
• Ability to manage portfolio of projects.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member, while using discretion in decision making.
• Experience in working in Agile and Iterative Development methodologies
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment
• Good Knowledge of CMMi Processes.
• Ability to co-ordinate with customer team on a day to day basis.
• Ability to build and nurture relationship with various customer stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and mentor a team of 10 to 20 developers in achieving project goals.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Drive projects through all SDLC phases, from initial definition and estimation, through to production delivery and support.
• Deliver projects on time, within budget, with quality results that meet customer expectations.
• Follow consistent best practices for project management, and drive process enhancements in collaboration with the team and other project managers in IT.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure projects are planned and prioritized to meet business needs.
• Develop detailed project schedules, project estimates, resource plans, status reports, tracking and reporting progress.
• Proactively manage scope, issues and risks to ensure project success. Follow change control procedures effectively.
• Knowledge of architectural frameworks and design principals, provide inputs to the technical architecture, development team and conduct design reviews.
• Support the team in developing optimized high quality deliverables, perform reviews in order to meet the defined quality SLAs.
• Mange client relationships at the portfolio/project level by engaging them regularly and be the ‘Single Point of Contact' for the client.
• Perform periodic project reviews, milestone reviews and relationship review with customer stakeholders.
• Reviewing staffing/expansion requirements for the current projects and planning/ training team members for projects.
• Mentoring team members and identifying training needs to build domain/ technical competency.
• Monitoring performance of team members and conducting performance reviews.
• Proactively identify opportunities for expanding footprint of services.
• Support on pre-sales campaign activities and events.
• Analytical skills
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment.

Additional Information

Thanks,

Shareef

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Eligibility: Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with client

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