Technical Project Manager

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER (ENGINEERING)

Report to: VP of Engineering

Overview of Role:

Working within an ambitious Product Organisation who strongly values technical skills blended with business acumen. This role will involve participation in the full project life cycle developing a product which is resold to multiple financial clients. Manage the delivery of projects for internal clients from project initiation through to close out. We are looking for a technically sound Project Manager that would like to expand their expertise while gaining experience in working on a best-in-class product.

Main Responsibilities:

·         Project plan preparation and ownership through project delivery

·         Manage and own project delivery within budget, scope, quality and time requirements

·         Allocation of project tasks to project team

·         Risk & issues identification and management throughout the project

·         Lead and participate in project teams to implement project deliverables

·         Create documentation for projects include plans, Gantt charts, resource plans, status reports risk logs etc

·         Forecast and report on actual revenue for each project

·         Manage handover of project with the internal customer

·         Management of change throughout the project delivery

·         Background in development (preference in Microsoft Technologies)

·         Strong problem solving and analytical skills

·         Knowledge of RDBMS and SQL querying

·         Knowledge of Server Environments and IIS

Required Skills:

·         Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing IT projects

·         Significant business experience using various project and program management methodologies in a variety of environments

·         Experience of software development processes

·         Regulatory experience and proven knowledge of the financial services industry would be an advantage

Education:

·         Formal project management training/recognised qualification required

·         Degree or Diploma in Computing or similar related qualification

Other Information / Circumstances:

·         Flexibility in terms of business travel

·         Project-driven work requirements