IT Project Manager

• Plan, manage, and deliver IT projects within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including developers, QA, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
• Track project progress, identify risks and issues, and develop mitigation and resolution plans.
• Manage project scope, requirements, changes, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Facilitate project status meetings and provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders.
• Use Jira to manage project activities, workflows, backlogs, issues, and delivery progress.
• Use Microsoft Project to develop and maintain project schedules and track milestones and dependencies.
• Ensure effective communication across technical and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate application releases, testing, deployment activities, and project closure when applicable.
• Maintain project documentation, status reports, RAID logs, action items, and other project artifacts.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes and team efficiency.

Our client is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager with approximately 5 years of experience managing technology projects from initiation through completion. The ideal candidate will have strong project planning, stakeholder management, risk management, and delivery skills, along with hands-on experience using Jira and Microsoft Project.

Experience managing application development projects is highly desirable., * Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

• Approximately 5 years of experience in IT project management.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects involving cross-functional technology teams.
• Strong experience with Jira and Microsoft Project.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and/or Waterfall.
• Excellent communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience managing application development and software delivery projects.
• Experience working with software development, QA, DevOps, or engineering teams.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum project delivery.
• Familiarity with SDLC processes and software development methodologies.