Description

Key Responsibilities

- Provide project management of software migration projects for clients on the IBM Z platform

- Consult with management and review project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, and allocation of resources

- Analyze the need for and provide the necessary project management for project planning, execution (including the development of project plans)

- Report on project activities, changes in scope, challenges and requirements to the leadership team as a strategic tool in keeping implementers and decision makers moving toward consistent, business or mission-focused goals and objectives

- Communicate with management internally and with the customer on ongoing status, milestones, and project risks

- Review and analyze processes & procedures to find opportunities for improvement and increased efficiency, then help drive implementation of these improvements

- Monitor, assess, and improve the effectiveness of program best practices, ensuring continual process and quality improvement with a primary focus on the client account

- This is a remote job opportunity which will require some travel to client sites across North America

Mandatory skills:
- At least five years of technical project management experience

- PMP or PRINCE2 certification

- Demonstrated knowledge of operations and project management skills

- Demonstrated excellent written and communication skills

- Experience managing cross-functional technical teams, with overall responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables, which includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management

- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to organize competing priorities and adapt to change

- IBM Z Mainframe experience

- Experience with IBM Z software products with ISV Product replacement with IBM products
 

Optional skills:

Experience doing application development on IBM Z, including programming languages like Cobol or PL/1 is a plus

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute