About our client:
Our client is a leader in professional services and consulting, providing a wide range of services including strategy, consulting, technology and systems integration, and operations to a range of clients across Government, Financial Services, Utilities and more.
About the Role:
We are currently recruiting an Implementation Manager for a contract role based in Sydney.
The Project Manager is responsible for building and supporting the big data platform. As a Senior Project Manager and Implementation Manager, your responsibilities include –
Key Responsibilities:
- Led complex end to end program delivery that encompassing multiple project streams – defining schedule, risk, approach to secure multiple production releases
- Lead project teams in delivering system integration solutions according to project charter or client project contracts for Data initiatives
- Manage integrated project plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements including internal staff, client employees and third-party vendors
- Project performance responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule and contractual deliverables
- Become a bridge between key client business stakeholders and Agile development team
- Manage value delivered by Agile development team and ensuring alignment with overall service strategy of the client
- Understand the client’s Divisional and Group objectives and strategies and manage the product’s business and technology stakeholders.
- Balance the trade-off between quality, benefits, risk, budget, time to market and user experience and effectively communicate it to key project stakeholders
- Clearly define the product and requirements with client business stakeholders and development teams by translating requirement and writing epics, features and stories
- Maintain the Non-functional Requirements (NFRs), to help ensure that the solution meets relevant standards and other system quality requirements
- Provide support to the team and work closely with the Scrum Master to remove team impediments & lead by example
Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a project manager, iteration manager or scrum master in IT Consulting or other technology business units across the industry
- Minimum of 3+ years of project management experience in data initiatives such as data modernisation, migration, governance, reporting, analytics and data science
- Diverse practical experience in project delivery frameworks such as Scaled Agile, Distributed Agile, Agile Sprints, Kanban, Waterfall etc
- Skills include Project Planning, Budgeting, Performance Management, Scheduling, Staffing, PM Methods, Performance Management, Scope Management, Contractual Deliverables, Change Control and Risk Management
- Solid Understanding of various data professional roles and responsibilities
- Understanding of concepts of business-critical design, services sensitive to performance SLAs with high availability, fault-tolerance, automatic fail-over and geographical redundancy
- Experience delivering projects based on Cloud Platform such as Azure, AWS, GCP and other modern data platforms
- Understanding of containerisation, virtualisation, infrastructure and networking
- Understanding of software development life cycle and methodologies
- Experience in presenting to and influencing stakeholders and senior managers
- Experience in Banking is required.
- Team leadership and people manager experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related Engineering courses
- One or more industry-recognised technology or project delivery certifications or badges
What's on offer?
This contract is available for an initial 6-month term with likely extension on a long-term project.
Located in Sydney, this role offers a hybrid working arrangement.
How to Apply:
Please upload your resume to apply. We will be in touch with further instructions for suitably skilled candidates. Please note that you will be required to complete selection criteria to complete your application for this role.
Call Katrina Gabriel on 0489 923 756 or email katrinag@whizdom.com.au for any further information.
Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.
