At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project team’s overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Complex Project Manager, your responsibilities include:
Communication/Negotiation: Communicate and provide advice to other professionals, effectively utilize group dynamics. Negotiate to define approaches and goals. Lead or join development team in projects to deliver proposed system for client’s business requirements. Communicate and negotiate effectively with client product owner and client solution architects to achieve the optimal outcome for the client.
Problem Solving: Design solutions in integrated complex and heterogeneous environments. Complete project life cycle on integration projects: analysis, design, implementation, testing, support in product development and/or service projects. Define integration architecture, make and communicate architecture decisions. Communicate customer requirements. Validate project plan and estimates. Develop high-level design, detailed design, API design, and prototypes. Prototyping key/most difficult concepts to reduce risk. Perform technical and development QA. Support presales process.
Recognize complex problems related to functional objectives. Analyze situations and implement solutions, or develop new system elements, procedures or processes. Creativity and judgment applied to developmental work on different projects within the business environment. Design application architecture and outline component model specifications for team member to implement. Provide industry insights in requirement elicitation. Respond quickly to POC activities for early assessment of solution feasibility and risks of architecture design. The applicant should be technology Evangelist in application architecture and programming.
Balance priorities to ensure client gets maximum value.
Contribution/Leadership: Provides ongoing technical /operational guidance to lead professional work teams, conducts special projects or manages cluster of technical practitioners. Understand department/ functional mission and vision. Defines and decides objectives within specified business concept or project and may have responsibility for tools and assigned resources. Utilizes technical expertise to directly influence people outside of the direct project to get the best outcome or just get things done. Innovative solutions may be required where sometimes no precedent exists.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- At least 10 Years’ experience as a Complex SI Project Management Professional
- At least 5 Years’ experience in managing custom application development projects
- At least 3 years’ experience in Agile PM Methods
as above.
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