IT Project Manager Sepecialist

Immediate need for a talented IT Project Manager Sepecialist with experience in the Banking & Financial Industry. This is a 06+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in McLean, VA. Please review the job description below., * Employ extensive professional experience and creativity to resolve complex technical problems.

• Engage with business users, application owners, vendors, and other affected parties during incident resolution.
• Perform root cause analysis for incidents.
• Conduct impact analysis for infrastructure and application upgrades.
• Act as liaison between the business and technical support teams.
• Assist with application system password management (for PW Management team).
• Code Scripts to perform Data Correction Utilities (for a subset of applications).
• Perform analysis to resolve application data issues.
• Code JILs (Job Information Language) for scheduling and running jobs with Autosys (for a subset of applications).
• Document lessons learned, and ensure knowledge database is maintained.
• Provide 24x7 coverage to supported applications.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture Services to implement latest technologies.
• Support incident and problem management processes.
• Apply broad technical knowledge and skills to analyze, develop, create and implement process improvements, trouble shooting, and operational support.
• Collaborate with Release Management on major upgrades & rollout of new applications
• Adapt to rapidly growing and changing environment, while working under pressure.
• Serve as a champion for change.
• Provide technical leadership to the team.
• Function as a technical team leader by providing direction, and keeping teams on track to provide application support and resolution within established SLAs,
• Assign tasks to team members and review their work.
• Provide training and coaching to fellow team members.
• Mentor other team members on best practices and past experiences.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, related field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience, financial services experience preferred.
• 10+ years of application development or support coupled with infrastructure experience.
• 10+ years of collective experience (and very strong knowledge) with databases (Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL) and security (firewall, AD, TAM, LDAP, certificate).
• 10+ years of strong support skills in Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack and middleware technologies (WebLogic, webMethods, Apache, Tomcat, MQ, IIS, etc.) in UNIX/Linux and/or Windows environment.
• Typically has 7-10+ years of hands on experience with scripting language: UNIX Shell, Perl, Python or similar leveraging complimenting automation tooling.
• Typically has 7-10+ years of strong experience in troubleshooting Unix/Linux, Networks, Firewall, Authentication, Security, DNS, GTM/LTM
• Typically has 7-10+ years of hands on experience with job automation tools like Autosys or BladeLogic and monitoring tools like SiteScope, Spectrum, etc.
• Cloud experience working with one or more of the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud services: EC2, EMR, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, Cloud Formation, Cloud watch, Lambda
• Hands-on experiences for Data Management, Big Data, and Data Warehousing
• At least 3 - 5+ years of experience with Agile, Kanban, or Scrum methodologies
• 3+ years of experience on Log monitoring tools like LogLogic, Splunk, Kibana or similar tools.
• Sound Proficiency with Java based technologies.
• Knowledge of Java, JEE, JSF, JPA, JSP, Web Services, XML, JDBC, SQL, OOA and OOD Concepts.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to multitask, and ability to set priorities.
• Data analysis, decision making, problem solving skills, and able to drive incidents to resolution.
• Sound interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and within a team.
• Demonstrated high level of motivation, confidence, integrity, and responsibility.
• Must be organized, detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to handle multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to technically lead major incidents and be able to troubleshoot & help resolve incidents.
• Hands-on experience with Remedy or ServiceNow.
• Knowledge of technologies like DataStage, Informatica.
• Experience in the financial industry, and associated operational processes and related data.
• Mainframe and MVS knowledge or experience.
• Experience with build automation tools (Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, etc.).
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask.
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with project delivery.
• Sound interpersonal and team building skills.
• Knowledge of ITIL concepts.
• Incident Management and Problem Management experience.

Our client is a leading Banking & Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.