Tampa ~ PeopleSoft Project Manager

Excellent full-time position with a leading, Global company based in Tampa. Salary range is $90k - $100k depending on experience. This position offers comprehensive benefits, a great working environment and opportunity for career advancement.

You will lead all phases of the development life cycle. Keep project sponsors, stakeholders and leadership informed regarding progress and issues. Develop alternate project approaches and make recommendations based on risk and business impact. Plan project scope, resources, milestones, and deliverables. Identify and gather resources for project tasks. Develop project teams and facilitate communication.Negotiate and set expectations with customers. Liaison with project sponsors and IT Functional Teams. Track project timeliness and milestones to ensure timely project conclusion. Review project deliverables to ensure quality and project success. Identify, escalate, and ensure resolution of issues that hinder project success. Work with other teams to identify and manage project dependencies. Deliver progress/status reports to project stakeholders and leadership, occasionally via formal presentation. On a project basis, provides input into performance appraisals as appropriate. Coordinates staff efforts involved in development, quality assurance, and support of product/project. Liaisons with third party vendors to coordinate development, deployment, and ongoing operations as appropriate. Coordinates multiple work streams.Other Responsibilities: Work closely with the Business Analysts to determine the appropriate solution to client requests for change. Maintain existing, develop new or modify PeopleSoft HR & Payroll menus, panels, panel groups, records and tables. Assist or lead in analyzing new releases of PeopleSoft HR & Payroll and evaluating the impact of custom modifications. Perform unit testing in accordance with existing development methodology. Participate in leading the planning and execution of System Integration and User Acceptance testing of new releases and custom modifications. Play a key role in the evaluation of change requests to insure they are properly integrated with existing PeopleSoft HR & Payroll functionality or recommend modifications that will be consistent with the firm’s standards. Provide mentoring and development to less experienced staff.

Project Related Functions:

Assist in developing functional design specifications and develop technical design specifications. Work with other Development Services teams to co-ordinate and facilitate the successful implementation of all custom modifications and new releases of PeopleSoft HR & Payroll. Lead development efforts on UPAS/PeopleSoft project teams (team leader or Project Manager as needed). Ensure development standards are followed and conduct design and code reviews as appropriate. Review design, code, test plans and results of less experienced staff. Participate in issues resolution and change control processes. Test and migrate modifications and/or new releases into production via multiple instances using existing methodologies.

Requirements:

BSCS or equivalent degree.
Able to manage large (10,000 hours or more projects).
Proven experience managing multiple projects at one time.
3 + years in Project Management experience to include leading medium to large size projects to include managing teams and work streams.
5 + years specific technical experience in the following: SQR Development, Peoplecode and online page development, Integration Services within PeopleSoft environment (app. Engine, etc), Web Services and SOAP, including XML, XSD, and XSL/T a plus - J2EE architecture including Servlets/JSP, EJB, JDBC, JMS a plus - Oracle and/or other leading RDMBS.
Experience building scalable, highly available, mission critical applications. Experience with object-oriented analysis, design, and programming methods.
Strong understanding of SOA & application/enterprise architecture concepts, standards, patterns, and best practicesStrong problem solving and analytical capabilities.
Excellent verbal & written communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution, and customer service skillsDemonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, deadline-driven environment.
Ability to balance multiple demands and work both independently and as part of a team.
Professionalism in dealing with all levels of management and staff.
Ability to understand customer needs and manage expectations.
Excellent negotiation and organizational skills with ability to orchestrate change through influence.
Ability to adjust to multiple demands, address shifting priorities, and to champion change.
Minimal travel is required.