Job Title: Project Manager (PMO)

Job type: Full-time, In-Person

Overview

We are looking for an energetic, dedicated, and highly motivated individual with a technical and process background who thrives working in a high-energy, dynamic environment to join our Project Management Office (PMO) group and work on projects that transform the way our clients go about doing their business.

The (PMO) is accountable for providing governance over the successful end-to-end delivery of strategic projects and programs for our clients.

If you are a Project Manager passionate about technology, innovation, business process improvements, quality, deployment, adoption and care about making a difference with your work, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. We eagerly anticipate the opportunity to work with a professional who shares our commitment to excellence and innovation.              

Who we are:

Orion Innovation is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of over 6,400 associates, with engineers in 12 major delivery centers across North America, EMEA, APAC and LATAM. For 30 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. 

Our Mission is to be a trusted partner who inspires and accelerates digital innovation. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including hi-tech, telecom and media, professional services, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, sports and entertainment, and education.

Our Values – We’ve thought very hard about our core values at Orion. What they are, what they should be. We’ve boiled them down to one powerful acronym, GROW – growth mindset, respect for all, out-of-the-box thinking, and world-class execution. 

The Role

The Project Manager has a high level of accountability that often includes multiple projects that may span across or impact multiple functions. These projects may roll up to one or more larger programs and often include multiple IT Delivery team resources where the Project Manager will often be required to manage, communicate, and coordinate with team members and business partners at various levels of leadership and experience or skill level.

What you will be doing

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage and lead IT projects utilizing industry standards, and best practices, following processes outlined by the Project Management Office (PMO)
• Serve as a liaison between the business, technology, and delivery organization
• Foster seamless communication and collaboration between technical and non-technical teams.
• Collaborating with Technology, Business and Operations teams to establish project goals, scope, roadmap, milestones, and deliverables.
• Develop, analyze, and meticulously manage project plans, schedules, status reporting, and resource forecasts.
• Follow a standard set of practices that ensure the integrity and quality of project artifacts.
• Ensures overall governance and reporting of the assigned projects’ updates to all stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Collaborating, identifying, and tracking all dependencies and risks (technical and non-technical) and exploring mitigation strategies aligned with the delivery plan. Escalating where necessary, providing all information required for senior management to make prioritization decisions. Responsible for the end-to-end process.
• Infrastructure / Environment: Ensuring necessary infrastructure and environments are sourced, set up, and made available to support various iterations of testing.
• Ensuring project documentation is complete, current, and stored appropriately as per the process.

What you need to have:

• A Self-starter, and proactive personality who likes to take accountability and independently runs projects with minimum or no oversight.
• Must have 3-5 years of proven project management experience managing large and complex technical projects, including application development and infrastructure implementations.
• Technical know-how of Azure DevOps, cloud applications, and Azure implementations.
• Extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures, and guidelines.
• Functional knowledge and experience in implementing large and complex solutions either related to software, data, or Infrastructure programs and projects is required.
• Must have experience and knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and various delivery methodologies like Waterfall and Agile as well as SCRUM framework.
• Excellent communication, presentation, change management, stakeholder management, and influencer skills.
• Ability to transform technical information into plain and comprehensible form and communicate to business stakeholders.
• Must have the ability to explain complex concepts/issues in simple terms.
• Must be able to manage multiple and concurrent cross-functional project(s) and handle multiple assignments and competing priorities.
• Excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management, and time management skills.
• Must be comfortable driving discussion and ability to influence decision making.
• Must have high proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, etc.).
• Proven analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and prioritization skills
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred.
• Familiarity with Project management tools such as JIRA^®, TFS, Azure DevOps

What we provide:

• Competitive Salary
• Performance based bonus
• Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance
• Comprehensive Employee Wellness Plan
• Retirement plan
• Paid Holidays and Vacation Time Accrual
• Encouraging and highly energetic environment
• Personal and Professional Growth Opportunities