Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners - Our client, a reputable Telco company based in Nigeria, is seeking to recruit suitably qualified candidates for the position below:
Job Title: Project Manager - Portal Application Implementation
Location: Lagos
Engagement Period: 4-5 Months
Job Description
- Competency: At least 9 years IT project management and delivery experience with Tier 1 Telco, Banking Customers. Experience in portal application delivery
- Skill Expectation & Role Responsibility
- Should have 8-9 years’ project delivery experience with overall IT experience expected is 12-14 years
- Sound functional knowledge of Project delivery with certification on PMP
- Familiar with Telecom processes - CRM, Sales, Supply chain, ERP
- Experience in gathering requirements from client, implementing the solution and maintaining the environment for Intranet/Internet applications and making enhancements on a continuous basis, preparing training manuals and conducting training of end users on web based applications.
- Experience in Portal Technologies - Liferay, Sharepoint scripting
- At least 4 years’ experience as a project manager in Portal implementations for larger enterprise clients across all phases of the project life-cycle, including a global roll-out.
- At least 5 years’ experience in managing project teams of 10+ FTEs, including being responsible for team staffing and performance evaluations of team resources.
- Good communication skills, interpersonal skills. Schedule and coordinate the company's project resources based out of India to ensure right bench utilization and project profitability.
- Work along with company's project team Technical architect, Business analysts, developers, Testers and business stakeholders managing overall deliverables of design, build, and test & deploy implementation of liferay portal solution, conforming to the clients Project Delivery Framework and default information security framework.
- Experience in using and managing Test management suites like HP ALM, Project management Tools , MS Project
- Liaison with Test lead, Project manager, Portal development team of company based out of India as well as collaborating with company's onshore BA and architect
- Work in collaboration with customers testing team, deployment teams and IT project owners
- The ability to manage software development with an off-shore development team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Leadership and strong team working skills.
- Setting and controlling the scope of the project
- Communicating status and vision to client management
- Delivering the project on time, on budget and within the agreed specifications
- Ensuring that the project team is following the approved project plan
- Performing the project financial management
- Be able to effectively scope out the work and provide accurate estimates
- Be able to manage the deliverables by self and others
- Self-motivated.
- Experienced in all phases of software life cycle like requirement analysis, designing, developing, installing, configuring and maintaining applications and project documentations.
- Excellent hands-on experience dealing with the onsite – offshore model and client interaction.
- Effective result oriented team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent and result oriented project leading skill.
- Client engagement to get more business for the organization.
Tools & Expertise
- Software Methodologies/Project Management
- Agile/ SCRUM/ Waterfall
- Project Planning
- Proposal Creation
- Project Management using MS Project, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.
- MS-Office 2013/2010/2007/2003/XP/2000/98/95.
- Source Control Management Tools
- SVN
- Test Management Tools
- HP ALM
- Technology Platforms
- .NET/Java
- LIferay /Sharepoint Portal
- Database: MS SQL Server 2012, 2008 & 2005/ SQL Server 2008/2005/2000
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to:
[email protected] using the job title as subject of the mail.