Position: Senior Project Manager, Finance Practice
Company: Dataart
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

✅About the vacancy

Project managers are in demand for various DataArt projects, but most of all they are in demand in the Finance industry. This particular vacancy is in the team that works with clients within the Finance industry. Like all our specialists, project managers have the opportunity to try their hands in different DataArt projects.

✅Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business
- Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
- Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
- Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
- Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
- Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
- Manage project scope and changes
- Act as an internal quality control check for the project
- Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration or litigation, as needed
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyze results and troubleshoot problem areas
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project and program team

✅Must have
- 5+ years of experience managing IT projects
- Solid experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall
- Technical background
- Knowledge of project management theory
- Experience using agile methodologies
- Experience working with clients: establishing business contacts, managing expectations, getting feedback, discussing the client needs, and reporting
- Experience negotiating vendor contracts
- HR management skills: motivation, assessment, conflict management
- Risk management
- Experience working with project documentation written in English
- Proactive
- Result-oriented approach
- Understanding the specifics of product development
- Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills
- Good English

✅Would be a plus
- Experience working in product based IT companies
- Experience in sales and preparing commercial proposals
- Experience managing a group of projects and tracking the status of implementation