The Omaha office of Sogeti USA is currently seeking strong project managers to join our consulting team. Ideal candidates MUST HAVE the following skills:

 Experience

• Minimum of 8 years experience and PMP certification required.
• Must possess experience with the following project management activities:
• Leading process to complete project charter and obtain necessary approvals.
• Creating and publishing project documents to include project scope, work breakdown structure, risk assessment and response, critical path, time estimates, schedules, and budget projections.
• Determining resources required to accomplish project objectives.
• Experience in Agile project management in a plus
• Conducting or participating in stakeholder meetings.
• Creating and executing plans for communication, change control, quality control, and specific coordination of activities with the BPS Modernization Project plans.
• Oversee execution of project tasks, monitoring performance and solving project slippage and/or constraints in timely manner.
• Managing stakeholder expectations, project risks and solving problems.
• Controlling project scope and changes, schedule, budget, and status reporting.
• Facilitate closeout activities like lessons learned and customer feedback
• Must have knowledge of Independent Validation and Verification approaches.
• Must have experience with identifying needed skills, accessing current staff skills and developing training curriculums to attain skills
• Must have experience developing comprehensive knowledge transfer plans
• Must have experience identifying and developing operational procedures necessary to support complex mission critical application
• Experience in both IBM and Microsoft technologies is a plus

Skills and Abilities

• Strong relationship management skill
• Strong understanding of all aspects of an IT organization – including Help Desk, Operations, Network and Server Administration, and Applications Development
• Strong understanding of complex application development projects and system development life cycles
• Strong project planning, leadership and management skills (including level of effort estimation, planning and prioritization of project tasks)
• Strong analytical skills using techniques like JAD sessions, user interviews, brown paper analysis, and GAP analysis to identify technical requirements
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong meeting management skills
• Strong written skills to create project documents that are Department-friendly
• Strong results orientation, high energy focus with good business judgment
• Ability to champion an idea and build consensus and support
• Ability to bring a group to compromise as needed and resolve conflict
• Ability to think strategically or in terms of "enterprise wide" solutions and have a broad range of technical knowledge
• Ability to act as a mentor to Department staff
• Project Management Institute Certification, PMP
• Certified Scrum Master is desired