Beschreibung
On behalf of our client we are looking for an IT project manager (m/f):Start: asap
Duration: 12 months/ fulltime
Location: Cologne
Specific Accountabilities:
- Champion projects and manage the initiatives successfully through all phases within the given constraints time, budget, scope and quality
- Establish and continuously facilitate appropriate communication amongst the stakeholders and teams, ensure clarity on goals, priorities and concrete responsibilities for all team members
- Define project goals, success criteria and expectations with stakeholders
- Create and manage a realistic and credible project plan with buy-in from all resources involved and the business sponsor; this includes definition/tailoring of an appropriate project lifecycle
- Negotiate program/project deliverables, milestones and target dates
- Manage the approved funding with the business sponsors and IT finance
- Responsible for appropriate team staffing and collaboration in a matrix organization with globally distributed teams
- Establish consistent project risk management and change control
- Responsible for the project to comply with IT and data architectural standards, performance standards, and business continuity and disaster recovery requirements
- Work closely with the support teams to manage the transition and warranty period
- Monitor and control the project during execution, including regular performance reports
- Actively support initiatives on improvement of delivery processes within the IT organization.
Experience/Skills Required:
- Minimum of 5 years experience in delivery of IT projects
- Strong data background and sound technical knowledge involved in delivering information projects
- Experience with implementation of data warehouse and enterprise reporting systems. Good knowledge of principles of data modeling and ETL processing and the tools involved
- Very strong communication, negotiation, analytical and problem solving skills
- Follow a well structured mode of operation, including detailed project planning with the appropriate level of detail
- Proven track record in delivering program/projects on-time, on-budget and in-scope
- Experience in managing projects in a global, matrix environment with internal (IT and Business) and external (3rd Party Service Provider, on- and off- shore) teams, located in different continents and time zones
- Experienced in software development life cycle methodologies and current information and data management industry best practices.
- Provide a holistic, simple view into program/project performance to stakeholders
- Agile knowledge and experience prefered.
Additional Experience/Skills Desired:
- Experience in the reinsurance and insurance industry preferred
- Project experience involving major Packages for data warehouse, ETL and reporting systems, preferably SAP Data Services, Informatica, Business Objects
- Experience with MS SQL Server preferred.
- Experience with big data technology projects a plus.
- Project Management Certification (PMI, PRINCE2 or similar) would be preferable