Sr. Project Manager

• Carry out assignments, alone or as part of a team, applying knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the issues of interest to the client organization and propose viable solutions within the scope of your own expertise, considering the needs of those affected.
• Recognize needs outside own area of knowledge, and how these areas relate.
• Produce high quality deliverables in terms of both content and presentation. Examples are reports, research, presentations, and options, with reasoned arguments.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of current practice within own area of expertise, including awareness of current developments. Develop awareness, and in some cases, detailed knowledge, of areas outside your own area of expertise as appropriate.
• Collaborate with, and facilitate stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. Facilitates groups to optimize time, effort and success for fact finding and agreement of a solution.
• Take responsibility for the definition, documentation, and safe execution of small to medium-scale projects, engaging with stakeholders and actively participating in all phases of the project.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues which could affect the success of the project.
• Effectively estimates costs, timescales, and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project(s) to agreed terms of reference.
• Ensure that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained and tracks all activities against the plan, providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders, as appropriate.
• Monitor costs, timescales and resources used and acts where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensure that delivered systems are implemented within these criteria.
• Manage the change control procedure and ensure that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale, and resource budgets, and are signed off. Gain agreement for revisions to the project(s) from project sponsors.
• Provide effective leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are motivated and developing their skills and experience. Take appropriate actions where performance deviates from agreed tolerances. Actively represents the project team, ensuring that effective relationships are built and maintained with the business.
• Ensure that your own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and actioned. Produces appropriate documentation to support these processes.

Required:

• 4+ years of previous experience in Project Management and familiar with automated project management tools, e.g. MS Project.
• Experience with fixed price models
• Proficient in Project Planning and Control Techniques and Risk Management
• Familiar with Contract Management and Negotiation
• Knowledge of systems development life cycle
• Analytical thinking skills, decision making, and attention to detail
• Solid client facing, interpersonal, and communication skills

 Education:

• Bachelor’s degree

GalaxE, now Endava, is a professional IT services firm that specializes in platform-driven solutions and the use of automation to achieve enterprise business transformation and mission-critical change for some of the largest companies in the world. Using our proprietary solution set, GxFource®, we apply machine learning techniques and predictive analytics tools as part of a broad artificial intelligence strategy that provides effective impact and data-driven business transformation. 

Since its founding, GalaxE has been dedicated to advancing the benefits of technology. Recently, we have joined forces with Endava, to offer our employees global exposure and enhanced opportunities. As we continue that legacy and look to the future, a focus on business enablement through agile, cost-efficient, and effective integration of people, process, and technology anchors our success. We revolutionize change in the costs of doing business that transform companies and their ability to leap beyond the competition.

We value people and are committed to diversity and inclusion where our employees are made to feel comfortable and are encouraged to be authentic.

We are always looking for passionate, entrepreneurial-minded innovators and disrupters; game-changers that take ownership of the work they produce and bring it each and every day. Working with like-minded team members you will get a chance to discover, develop, and use cutting-edge technologies to transform the way we deliver creative business solutions.

Sound like you? Join us and find out for yourself what it means for you, and your career, to be part of the GalaxE team. Let’s build something, together.

*Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

** Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on actual job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of remaining stationary at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift to 15 lbs., as needed
• Must be able to work on-site (corporate/client offices), as needed (not applicable for 100% remote roles)
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel, crouch, and reach overhead.
• Hand-eye coordination necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment. 
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, the ability to tolerate fluorescent lighting, and the ability to adjust focus.

Employees must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees requiring accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs, absent undue hardship.

For more information, please visit https://info.endava.com/galaxe-has-joined-endava