Project Manager - Web Development

Tech Talent International

Job Description

Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US.

We are currently looking for a Project Manager of Web Development for our global web development client.

This is a full time, permanent role.

Role: Project Manager - Wed Development

Type: Permanent full-time

Salary: $85,000 - $100,000 + vacation + benefits

Location: Remote, Toronto, ON, Canada (must be able to work on EST)

Responsibilities:

• Provide project support to Project team members, functional managers and the business.
• Provide support to external project resources, including the Design group, Payment Processors, and 3rd party vendors.
• Work with Project team members to respond to, and as appropriate, resolve or escalate project risks.
• Ensure/facilitate interdepartmental project communications, both verbally and through electronic means.
• Ensure individual project conformance with overall Program Objectives.
• Ensuring on-time delivery of all projects under his/her leadership.
• Work with Project team members to ensure that all initiatives have clear success criteria, an execution plan (including resources), and an assessment of the delivery.
• Work with other members of the PMO and functional managers to confirm and negotiate resource assignment according to current business priority.
• Work with other members of the PMO to set, and as necessary, reset project goals in accordance with approved Change Management practices.
• Communicating timely project status updates to the PMO, management team and clients as appropriate.
• Responsible for creating, or monitoring the creation, of project assets, including:
• Project definitions through Requirements documentation
• Technical documentation including Technical Specifications, Release/deployment plans, Rollback plans, etc.
• Release Scope portals (WIKI pages) for each planned Project release.
• JIRA support entries (ie. project labels, triage, build versioning, keyturns) as necessary through the project lifecycle
• Creating project plans, schedules, issue logs and risk mitigation plans
• Tracking of project tasks, including resource assignment, estimation and status
• Provide leadership for Production release activities, including impact/risk assessment, resource allocation/co-ordination, and sponsor/business communication.
• Administration of Project Management tools, including JIRA, Microsoft Project and the Project areas of the Internal WIKI.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of 5+ years of project management/leadership experience in a software development organization required.

• Must have at least 4 years experience in full software life cycle projects.

• Minimum of 2 years of external client management experience is required.

• Prior experience with website billing projects would be considered a strong asset

• Experience working with off-site project team members is preferred.

• Previous experience as a software developer, systems analyst or business analyst is preferred.

• Project Management experience on large/enterprise applications is required.

• Besides project management experience, preference will be given to those candidates with a demonstrated technical background in a computer science discipline as well as some practical experience in web programming.

• Experience with Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project (or similar), as well as defect management software is required.

• Strong interpersonal skills (including conflict management) are required.

• Must be able to clearly explain technical issues and constraints to non-technical people both in verbal and written communications

• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills, and be able to speak comfortably to a variety of audiences.