Senior Application Project Manager

REFERENCE NO.:

5645JP

INDUSTRY: Industry

LOCATION:

Lausanne und Region

START DATE:

ASAP

DURATION:

Until end of December 2015

WORKLOAD: 100%

ABOUT US:

ITech Consult AG is a Swiss IT consultancy firm which was founded in 1997 by IT professionals. Our Pay rolling is referred by 98% of our freelancers as the best Pay rolling system in Switzerland. Do you require more information? Feel free to contact us

ROLE:

Application Project Manager for the integration of telemetry capabilities into our client's Global Trade Asset Management solution. As a single point of contact for the Telemetry Initiative you will be in charge of coordinating the design and construct of our client's Telemetry solution. To ensure proper integration of the solution you will be working closely with various stakeholders.

YOUR TASKS:

- Lead the project activities, documentation and deliverables of a global IS/IT solution of mixed technologies in line with NP Telemetry business requirements within agreed time frames, budget and quality parameters, acting as a key point of reference for the extended team.
- Manage & coordinate the design and construct, the deployment and sustain organization by delivering a telemetry solution

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Establish the proper status on current NP Telemetry initiative
- Manage planning, and regular communication with functional/technical stakeholders and team members
- Deliver the high level functional and technical design of the solution.
- Coordinate the delivery of detailed functional/technical design in collaboration with the team on-site and off-shore.
- Provide team input to facilitate design and construction of the solution.
- Ensure that new releases of the solution are extensively tested prior to the delivery of the solution in a coherent package enabling KT and deployment of the solution in the markets.
- Organize and support the project acceptance phase with the zone GC's and markets
- Understand in details the technical aspects of the solution, and guide technical counterparts and team members towards solutions
- Make sure our client's standards are respected and followed and guide all technical team members towards aligning to these standards
- Work effectively and collaborate with off-shore and near-shore technical resources

Requirements: 

- Application Project Management and architecture skills on large projects in international organizations with a disciplined overview of priorities and technical integrations
- Solution seeking attitude under project management to build the solution meeting business requirements and ability to find new technical approaches for the improvement of the solution
- Functional and Technical Design skills with international mindset
- Technical experience in construction of telemetry projects
- Experience in conducting architecture reviews and aligning a technical solution towards best practices
- Experience in ITIL to manage programs and to communicate with infrastructure teams
- Strong communication skills, good listener and client-facing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- Microsoft architectures (Web applications, SOA, SQL Server and SQL server SSIS)
- Mobile solutions (synchronization, package deployment etc.)
- Microsoft Azure
- Message broker
- MS Project
- MS Office Suite
- HP Quality Center

LANGUAGES:

- Fluent in English both written and spoken