Software Project Manager

A Software Project Manager needed for a software development company located in the Raleigh area. This is a 6 month temp to permanent position. Benefits offered on the contract side with many perks on the permanent side. 

Project Manager



Lead a team with technical and business members in the design, development and modification of custom software.  The environment is a mixed technical environment composed of COBOL/DB2 and Java/Oracle development.  The project manager role is critical to the organization and involves multiple developers and analysts.  The project manager is expected to have a broad range of internet development technology knowledge.  Must have organizational experience leading a technical team of Java developers, and have project management skills leading small to large projects.  The project manager is expected to manage projects on time, within budget and meet customer expectations.  This is a 6 month contract to hire position.



Responsibilities:

Create project plans; identify risks, issues list, action items, and weekly status reports as well as adhere to internal project methodologies. Identify and resolve project issues and risks, including tracking, escalation and mitigation. Manage, integrate and balance resource requirements within the project and between this project and others at the company where required. Report project progress to senior management and stakeholders, identifying issues and resolutions. Supervise performance and professional development for technical members of the team. Build good team atmosphere by developing positive working relationships with team members and other departments. Implement and support company objectives and decisions. Will resolve critical issues and technical problems.  Requires involvement in product design and requirements analysis. Works with business group to define product requirements; works with other functional areas as necessary.

 Requirements:

 Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Demonstrated strength in project management methodology and practice. Must have strong, structured project leadership experience. Previous experience as a project manager leading an object oriented technical development staff.  Does not need to be Java; could be another object oriented language such as C++, Smalltalk or .net.  (However, Java is strongly preferred.) Previous hands-on development experience is required; object oriented development experience is preferred Understanding of object oriented development techniques such as object inheritance, encapsulation and object reuse. Knowledge of relational database theory and experience with a relational database product. Strong interpersonal, communication, organization, and planning skills. Ability to learn, understand and coach on the technical details of projects.  Project managed team sizes of 5 ? 10 developers. Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Project.



Preferred:

Previous experience developing in Java on new development.  Experience managing large projects doing new development.  PMP Certification a plus.