Project Manager (Parvana)

About the Client:

  • Based in Somerset West, this global technology organization focuses on big and complex applications for large government projects.

    A very secure and highly successful organization who prefer hiring perm staff and in return offer very good benefits and long term stability.

    As a culture, the focus is on holistic modernization and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborating with multiple teams to determine project scope.
  • Ensuring roles, responsibilities and deliverables are defined.
  • Facilitating high-level software design sessions.
  • Hosting project effort estimation sessions.
  • Defining / creating a project plan in MS Project or appropriate tool.
  • Setting up JIRA projects and creating Jira tickets to carry out the defined plan.
  • Communicating project plans, project meeting minutes and project reporting.
  • Facilitating regular project meetings like daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, risk and issue resolution etc.
  • Managing / controlling the project schedule using JIRA and MS Project.
  • Assisting with the management of 3rd party vendors.
  • Ensuring creation of functional and nonfunctional documentation.
  • Documenting of Software release plans.

Qualifications:

  • Relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering or Information Sciences.
  • Project management certification.

Skills / Experience:

  • 3 years technical Project management experience.
  • At least 2 years of project management experience in a software development environment.
  • A good understanding of Agile Principles and SDLC.
  • Intermediate user of MS Project or similar software and MS Office applications.
  • A novice level of Software design principles.
  • Experience in Project Administration and PMBOK Process Groups and Knowledge Areas.
  • Experience working within a software development environment.

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