Join this rapidly growing software development company based out of Clearwater, Florida and put your career on the fast-track to success.  If you’re looking for a company where you can exercise your entrepreneurial spirit and creativity, make a distinct contribution to the overall success of the company and change the way the world does business, this is the company for you.

Job Description

Our client is looking for a Technical Project Manager (TPM) who will be responsible for the successful delivery and completion of the company’s proprietary application and related projects.

Duties:

• The Technical Project Manager effectively manages project work through all stages of the SDLC including solution scoping, estimating, planning, initiating, executing, controlling and closing processes.
• Is highly skilled at understanding the complex needs of the business, translating its priorities into technical project plans and orchestrating the successful execution of the work to the specified timelines on a consistent basis.
• Scope the project work through discovery of business requirements, non-functional requirements and translation to technical work effort, SDLC project plans and work breakdown scheduling.
• Manage project work in alignment with the Statement of Work (SOW) obligations and ensure accurate team reporting of billable hours for efficient client invoicing against the project budget on a monthly basis.
• Effectively execute and control the project work through proactive risk identification, mitigation and issues management.
• Create project documentation and artifacts as needed to support the SDLC implementation methodology or documentation requirements.
• Manage the overall project coordination, including managing scheduling, assigning tasks, motivating resources and resolving problems.
• Provide consistent and concise verbal and written communications to project stakeholders including project performance reporting, milestones reporting, status reporting, issues and risks management reporting and quality reporting on a regular basis.
• Prioritize project work plan packages, tasks and actions on a consistent basis.
• Facilitate the creation of deployment approach, training plan, & supporting operational needs.
• Upon client acceptance of completed project, work with Operations & Support teams to facilitate training and transition for maintenance & ongoing support.
• Create project closure reports including validation of assumptions behind original business case, lessons learned, & support of Operations during initial period.
• Work to create repeatable implementation plans with a focus on reduction of costs associated with implementation and methodologies that are highly effective.

Candidate Requirements

The applicant must meet the following requirements:

• Five (5) plus years of recent/current Enterprise Project Management experience with full lifecycle involvement in web application software development projects (.NET or Java EE)
• 10 years in IT industry
• Excellent and thorough knowledge of the SDLC process and implementation methodologies best suited for web application development.
• Proven skills and ability in scoping, planning, executing and controlling technical project work.
• Demonstrated managerial skills and ability to structure and lead teams successfully through the full lifecycle of software solution implementation projects
• Strong working knowledge of .NET application architectures.
• A strong technical understanding of web application architectures through hands-on application development, technical architect experience or demonstrated technical project management.
• Strong knowledge of data integration architectures and schemas including web services, XML/XSD, SOAP, EDI as well as batch integration and file transfer approaches.
• Demonstrated ability and skill with requirements analysis, process analysis, process modeling, documenting workflows and developing technical specifications for software development.
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate succinctly and instill confidence with internal stakeholders and the company's customers.
• Exceptional writing skills and reporting capabilities.
• Ability to travel up to 50% travel during implementation periods

Education/Experience:

• PMI PMP certification is highly desired.
• Ten (10) years plus years of overall proven success in the high tech industry with a minimum of five (5) years in enterprise software application development project management work either with a software vendor, professional services consulting firm or IT project management organization.
• Mortgage Industry, Financial Services/Consumer lending experience preferred.

About the Company

The company leverages .Net® technologies to reduce operating costs and improve client relationships while using business process analysis and technology to spur growth, manage costs, and build client loyalty.  They have designed an easy to use platform that allows business users the opportunity to change and improve business processes from their desktops without IT help or expense allowing their clients to regain control over their business and not have technology control them.

The company offers a full range of benefits including:  health, vision, dental, 401K, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and much more.  EOE Employer.