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Project Manager

  • California, Aliso Viejo

  • 06/03/2026

  • Contract

  • Active

Job Description:

  • JOB SUMMARY
    Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable-based model, delivering agreed scope within agreed timeline and cost. Ensure project success and acceptance criteria are met, enhancing customer satisfaction.

    Key Responsibilities
    - Identify key stakeholders and maintain positive business relationships.
    - Communicate regularly with the customer, addressing needs with empathy.
    - Define project activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget to optimize cost and time utilization.
    - Anticipate and manage risks by applying suitable risk management strategies and developing contingency plans.
    - Implement defined governance models.
    - Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
    - Implement software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs.
    - Adopt and build software engineering best practices.
    - Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
    - Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents and traceability matrices.
    - Partner with the customer to define and elicit requirements.
    - Conduct impact analysis of scope changes and negotiate scope prioritization.
    - Consolidate estimates, evaluate risks, and validate estimates from a technical standpoint.
    - Review and validate estimates across service lines.
    - Conduct resource planning at a project level.
    - Identify roles and skills required for each role, considering project-specific KPIs.
    - Plan and manage small projects or modules, identifying and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
    - Anticipate and manage schedule delays and dependencies.
    - Identify options to fast-track the schedule.
    - Estimate, plan, and track activities, reporting progress regularly.
    - Proactively identify and track dependencies impacting project KPIs.
    - Identify and track project risks, following escalation paths.
    - Document and communicate project risks and issues to stakeholders.
    - Define RACI charts and communication plans.
    - Support system integration testing, review test execution, and support test strategy definition.
    - Understand the business impact of defects, prioritize, and participate in defect triage meetings.
    - Identify and analyze root causes of defects.
    - Define/adopt project tooling strategy and guide the team in developing quality work products.
    - Tailor organization's quality guidelines to project requirements.
    - Understand how proposed solutions meet client requirements.
    - Understand customer technology landscapes and map business requirements to technology requirements.
    - Present proposed solutions to customers.
    - Review other project artifacts and participate in PM forums to share best practices.
    - Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools to improve productivity and quality.
    - Develop and implement a framework for team skill assessment and enhancement.
    - Nurture innovation within the team and provide feedback for growth.

    Required Qualifications
    - Perform end-to-end management of a single project or deliverable-based model.
    - Deliver agreed scope within agreed timeline and cost.
    - Ensure project success and acceptance criteria are met.
    - Identify key stakeholders and maintain positive business relationships.
    - Maintain regular communication with the customer.
    - Define activities, responsibilities, milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget.
    - Optimize costs and time utilization.
    - Anticipate and manage risks.
    - Implement governance models.
    - Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
    - Implement software delivery methodologies.
    - Adopt software engineering best practices.
    - Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
    - Drive the creation of common standards.
    - Partner with the customer to define and elicit requirements.
    - Conduct impact analysis of scope changes and negotiate scope prioritization.
    - Consolidate estimates, evaluate risks, and validate estimates technically.
    - Review and validate estimates.
    - Conduct resource planning.
    - Identify roles and skills.
    - Plan and manage small projects/modules.
    - Identify and implement risk mitigation strategies.
    - Anticipate and manage schedule delays and dependencies.
    - Identify options to fast-track the schedule.
    - Estimate, plan, and track activities, reporting progress regularly.
    - Identify and track dependencies.
    - Identify and track project risks.
    - Document and communicate project risks and issues.
    - Define RACI charts and communication plans.
    - Support system integration testing.
    - Review test execution.
    - Support test strategy definition.
    - Understand defect impact and prioritize defects.
    - Participate in defect triage meetings.
    - Identify and analyze root causes of defects.
    - Define/adopt project tooling strategy.
    - Guide the team in developing quality work products.
    - Tailor quality guidelines to project requirements.
    - Understand client requirements and proposed solutions.
    - Understand customer technology landscapes.
    - Map business requirements to technology requirements.
    - Present proposed solutions.
    - Review project artifacts.
    - Participate in forums and share best practices.
    - Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools.
    - Assess team skill levels and define enhancement plans.
    - Nurture team innovation.
    - Provide feedback and enable team performance.

    Skill Examples:
    - Identify project risks and define action plans.
    - Define a project plan by breaking it down into individual tasks.
    - Communicate project progress to relevant parties.
    - Delegate tasks and manage team member contributions.
    - Assess project health using quantitative measures.

    Knowledge Examples:
    - Technologies to be implemented within the project.
    - Structured project management methodologies (e.g., agile techniques).
    - Estimation techniques.
    - Metrics analysis and quantitative management.
    - Root cause analysis.
    - People management including goal setting, growth, and coaching.

    Preferred Qualifications
    - None mentioned.

    Certifications
    - None mentioned.

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