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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