- SALARY:NONE
- Saint Petersburg, Florida
Saint Petersburg, Florida
Project Manager, Technology-2401601
Description
Job Summary
This Project Manager manages Enterprise Data and Services, Change the Business (CTB) Releases for large and/or multiple projects including Regulatory, Wealth Management, PCG, Data Science and Architecture initiatives with significant impact on business processes and technology used firm wide. Influences strategic direction and develops tactical plans with substantial latitude. Provides comprehensive solutions to complex problems and has extensive contact with internal clients and the business. Manages complex projects from proposal and requirements definition to project planning and implementation, using broad and extensive input from industry and/or business unit subject matter experts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business objectives and are the most efficient usage of resources while not compromising value/quality.
Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management team to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications.
Develops, prepares, presents and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules. Monitor projects progress and maintains documentation/reports for downstream consumers.
Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets
Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools monitoring budgets coordinating resource acquisition and utilization maintaining precise documentation/artifacts required as part of PMO and Internal Audit serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers and communicating regularly with project stakeholders.
Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation.
Manages all aspects of the project budget including creating and maintaining resource allocations and actively tracking costs to the approved budget.
Partners with other functional areas to accomplish objectives.
Qualifications
Experience and Skills
Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or applicable degree and six (6) to eight (8) years of experience including project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management or combination of education, training and experience.
PMP or equivalent certification highly preferred.
CSM or equivalent certification highly preferred
Knowledge of the following
- Ability to read, analyze, interpret/link and apply knowledge to assignments
- Use collaborative skills to accomplish work as a team
- Detailed oriented with a big-picture orientation
- Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards.
- Project selection and approvals budgeting and business case preparation and analysis and project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting.
- Experience managing large complex release cycles highly preferred
- Concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering.
- Information technology support and technical documentation.
- Principles of banking and finance and securities industry operations.
- Business planning and analysis.
- MS Project
- Azure DevOps (TFS)
- SmartSheets
- Project budget interfaces with other accounting systems.
Licenses/Certifications
Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) preferred.
Raymond James Guiding BehaviorsAt Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firms core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.We expect our associates at all levels toAt Raymond James as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.
Job
Technology
Primary Location
US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
Organization
Technology
Schedule
Full-time
Shift
Day Job
Travel
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