Big Data Project Manager

Company: Aureon Consulting
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Aureon Consulting has an immediate need for an experienced Project Manager for a large, complex Data Normalization project with a great client in the Financial Services industry. Our ideal candidate will have prior Big Data experience, specifically with Hadoop. This is a brand new, ground floor effort that will involve working with technology that's not currently used by this company, previous experience with a similar effort is an absolute must have. Client with be entering the Big Data world and needs leadership in creating a normalized look of all data across their entire organization to help scale for future growth. This a hands on Project Management role that involves directly managing and driving work in an environment that is not yet process mature, only those capable of handling a great deal of autonomy need apply. Must be an expert at bringing order to chaos. Responsibilities include

• Vendor management and extensive collaboration with various technology and business leaders.
• Performs standard analyses of business goals and objectives and needs of the business environment.
• Plans and designs business processes and makes recommendations in order to improve and support business activities that enhance the advisor experience.
• Builds, monitors and manages highly-functioning teams that effectively accomplish objectives and meet milestones in a timely fashion by proactively identifying, managing and quickly resolving issues and problems.
• Defines project scope, resource requirements, budget, timeline, deliverables and milestones: evaluates various courses of action on an ongoing basis and selects the best alternative to attain project goals.
• Manages projects through all phases of the life cycle, including project initiation, project requirements and specifications, design, construction, testing, installation and post implementation review.
• Maintains focus on project plan tasks, manages risks throughout the project life cycle, and makes contingency plans to manage issues that pose risk to budget, time delivery or functionality.
• Determines the detailed information requirements of the project stakeholders and the project/organization, develops feedback routines to ensure two-way communication.
• Ability to effectively influence without hierarchical authority. Additional responsibilities:
  • Drive scope definition for projects
  • Schedule and facilitate project meetings with functional stakeholders
  • Create project plans, schedule and track status, costs and maintain plans and issue logs
  • Escalate issues to the PMO
  • Create status reports
  • Facilitate steering committee meetings
  • Attend meetings and identify next deliverables, create agendas and document meeting minutes
  • Prepare Sr. Leader decks/materials for PM Director
  • Assist with meeting facilitation in the PM Directors absence
  • Complete various analysis utilizing Excel including ability to leverage formulas, pivot tables and other tools for large data sets
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with limited direction
  • Flexible with changing priorities
    Job Requirements:
    • BA/BS degree. PMP certification preferred.
    • 5-7 years' experience as a project manager leading complex projects simultaneously in multi-disciplinary environment.
    • High level of expertise with Microsoft Office (including Project) and SharePoint.
    • Preferred: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Project Management (PMP) certification.

Keywords: Aureon Consulting, Phoenix , Big Data Project Manager, Executive , Phoenix, Arizona