Engagement Manager
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 Months (with potential for extension)
Location: Remote
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week
Pay Range: $70 to $76 per hour
Responsibilities:
Application Technology Solutions
- Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of application technology solutions in line with strategic business objectives.
- Ensure business needs are clearly understood and implemented solutions meet expectations.
- Provide consultation to leadership and customers on solution options and vendor product selection as needed.
- Collaborate with channel leadership to budget and prioritize planned and unplanned development and maintenance project engagements.
- Work with Business System Analysts (BSA) and Solution Architects to assess the scope and feasibility of technical solutions.
- Oversee product planning, delivery, release management, and deployment to align with technology standards and business needs.
Product Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day decisions related to assigned projects.
- Collaborate with channel and business leadership to develop strategies for product roadmaps.
- Seek opportunities to reduce application costs and increase production efficiencies.
- Integrate business strategies and software capabilities (current and future) into the vision and direction for all channel-related products.
- Collaborate with channel leaders and project teams to design, develop, and support enterprise-wide solutions.
- Work with BSAs and Solution Architects to ensure appropriate business processes, support, and maintenance are in place.
Project Responsibilities
- Lead all design and development aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for client's projects.
- Ensure adherence to standards, procedures, and methodologies in the delivery life cycle.
- Align development and maintenance projects with channel strategy, product vision, and innovation roadmaps.
- Oversee project execution, resource deployment, leadership, and coordination efforts to meet schedules and budgets.
- Communicate development and production status and issues to management and stakeholders.
- Develop project documentation in collaboration with the PMO, including initiation documentation, budgets, project plans, and resource plans.
- Ensure resources assigned to projects are meeting deadlines and focused on key activities.
- Escalate issues, risks, and decisions to the Channel Leader or other stakeholders as necessary, and develop mitigating actions.
- Monitor progress and status of deliverables.
- Ensure proper functioning of products and applications, recommending upgrades as necessary.
- Review projects for completeness and consistency of approach and interfaces.
Project Delivery Teaming
- Collaborate with PMO to prepare overall project schedules, milestones, tasks, and estimates.
- Participate in technology and solution decisions with architecture and product teams.
- Collaborate with Solution and Application Architects to document technical design, unit testing, deployment, and implementation requirements.
- Work with BSAs to analyze business and functional requirements impacting business applications.
- Optimize development resource mix by collaborating with offshore Technical Delivery Managers.
- Coordinate with architecture and development teams to perform code reviews for alignment with predefined architecture and design.
- Collaborate with BSAs and Quality Engineering teams to ensure proper testing.
- Lead project delivery teams with a focus on continuous process improvement.
Offshore Team Oversight
- Monitor daily progress and status of deliverables on projects.
- Lead internal and offshore vendor teams in project delivery, planning, and staffing.
- Ensure all project resources remain focused on aligned efforts.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Strong project management experience.
- Familiarity with Talent/HR space.
- Proficient in ADO/Jira.
- Experience working with global teams.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Self-motivated and capable of thriving in a fast-paced work environment.
- Ability to balance multiple projects across several clients.
- Demonstrated ability to drive teams to deliver on-time results.
- SAFe certification preferred.
- Experience with SAP HANA is a plus.
- Experience leading and managing data-centric reporting projects is a plus.
DETAILS AT A GLANCE
JOB TITLE: Engagement Manager
TIME COMMITMENT: 40 hours per week
HOURS: Monday-Friday, 8 hours per day
JOB TYPE: Contract
LOCATION: Remote
SALARY: $70.00 to $76.00 per hour
START DATE: ASAP
DURATION: 6 Months
APPLICATION DEADLINE: ASAP
BNA RECRUITER: Nick Yacobi
HOW TO APPLY: Click on the apply button, fill out the form and upload your resume.
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This role is a TEMPORARY position through BNA. You would be employed and paid by our company and working directly with our client.