• The Engineering Project Manager is a very hands-on technical management position with high visibility and large levels of responsibility
• The PM is responsible for performing end-to-end cross-discipline leadership throughout the software development lifecycle. Accountable for on-time, on-budget, high quality software project deliveries, the PM manages the entire project, including Analysis, Development and Quality Assurance. The PM also oversees dependencies and handoffs between Engineering, Product Management and Operations The projects that the PM manages are large scale with significant tactical or strategic impacts for the client
• Specific Responsibilities: - Leverage project team resources to provide level of effort estimates - Identify, mitigate, and prioritize, manage and resolve project issues, constraints, dependencies and risks - Create and manage overall project plan - Define and manage to critical success factors - Develop and monitor project budget versus actual expenses - Institute a change control process and chair the Change Control Board - Communicate status and issues to senior management and project stakeholders - Coordinate cross-org team, proactively ensuring that teams are in sync in terms of communication, schedules, issues, etc
• - Facilitate decision making with stakeholders, balancing the needs of different constituencies and facilitating consensus
• - Champion and key contributor of continuous improvement of PM best practices, using innovative ideas to increase effectiveness of organization
• - Managing mostly high projects in terms of complexity, risk, and/or business criticality while managing multiple projects at a given time, juggling activities and priorities accordingly
• Experience - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or a related discipline - At least ten years of progressively responsible experience on large scale software development projects, preferably in a commercial software development environment - At least three years of experience directly managing software projects of significant scale and complexity including multiple sub-teams, financial project management, and cross-divisional staff involvement - At least two years of experience with highly available back-end transaction intensive OLTP type systems and API interfaces - Basic understanding of J2EE technologies and distributed architectures Other Key Requirements of the Successful Candidate: - The PM position is very hands on - this is NOT an administrative project management position - Client is a fast-paced technology rich environment; the ability to multitask on different projects concurrently and react deftly to movements in the business is critical - The PM also serves as leader for the team; a strong positive attitude and the ability to motivate both junior and senior team members is important Additional Notes: MUST be hands on technical managers, i
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• understand the role of code and databases in an SDLC-centric development and delivery initiative
• Strong preference for candidates with experience in a fast paced, commercial, engineering-oriented shop
• (Government-experienced PM's generally do not segue over too well
• ) emphasize cross-organizational communicative experience, i
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• from Analysis to dev to deploy to ops
• will also include interaction with Product teams
• Change Control and Change Control Board experience very attractive
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• At PI, you'll work with the best people for the best clients on the most challenging and interesting IT projects in today's business world - with personal attention to your career advancement and professional growth in a company committed to promoting from within
• Join our team of top IT consultants from MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford, and Harvard, with unequalled business experience - and see how far a career at Princeton Information can take you
• Princeton Information is one of the nation's largest privately-held IT consulting firms, continuously operated since 1985 by founder and Chairman Noel Marcus
• Princeton Information provides a clientele of primarily Fortune 500 companies with a full range of on-, near- and off-shore staffing, services and solutions
• With annual revenues over $145 million, Princeton Information operates across the US with 11 regional offices

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