The Mom Project Hiring for Engagement Manager (100% Remote) at Remote Full Time

Our Customer was founded in 1982 in an effort to create a solid accounting firm headed by native professionals. They later branched out to other services, which is now a multinational professional services network with offices in over 150 countries and territories around the world. With more than 100,000 professionals, they provide audit and assurance, tax, consulting, and risk and financial advisory services to a broad cross-section of the largest corporations and governmental agencies.

We are seeking an Engagement Manager on a contract basis to support our client’s ongoing business needs.

What You’ll Do:
Accountable and responsible for the end-to-end delivery of application technology solutions in line with strategic business objectives.

Ensure that the business needs are clearly understood and the technology implemented meets the needs and expectations of the business.

Provide consultation directly to our Client’s Application Studios leadership and customers around solution options and vendor product selection as needed.

Work with channel leadership to budget and prioritize planned and unplanned development and maintenance project engagements.

Work with Business System Analysts and Solution Architects to develop a high-level understanding of the scope and feasibility of technical solutions.

Oversee product planning, delivery, release management, and deployment to ensure technology standards and business needs are met.

Manage the day-to-day decision as it relates to assigned projects.

Work with channel and business leadership to develop a strategy for the execution of product roadmaps.

Seek ways to reduce application-related costs and increase efficiencies of applications in production.

Integrate the business strategy and knowledge of software capabilities (current and future) into the vision and direction for all channel-related products.

Collaborate with channel leaders and project team to design, develop, and support Enterprise-wide solutions.

Team with BSA and Architect to ensure that all products support the appropriate business processes and have the appropriate support and maintenance processes in place.

Ensure standards, procedures, and methodologies in the delivery life cycle are followed.

Ensure all development and maintenance projects are in accordance with channel strategy, and adhere to product and channel vision and product innovation roadmaps.

Head project execution, resource deployment, and overall leadership and coordination efforts to ensure projects are completed on schedule and within budget.

Communicate development and production status and issues to management and stakeholders.

Develop project documentation in collaboration with PMO e.g., project initiation documentation, budget, project plan, and resource plan.

Ensure resources assigned to projects are meeting deadlines and focused on the right 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 the Products and Applications and recommend upgrades as necessary.

Review projects for completeness of thought and consistency of approach and interface.

Collaborate with PMO to prepare overall project schedule, milestones, tasks, and estimates.

Participate in technology and solution decisions with architecture and product teams for projects.

Collaborate with Solution and Application Architects to ensure that technical design, unit testing, deployment, and implementation requirements are properly documented.

Collaborate with Business System Analysts (BSA) to analyze business and functional requirements that have an impact on business applications.

Work with offshore Technical Delivery Manager to optimize the mix of the development resources.

Coordinate with architecture and development teams to perform code reviews to ensure that all solutions are aligned to pre-defined architecture and design.

Coordinate with BSAs and Quality Engineering teams to ensure proper testing is performed.

Lead project delivery teams and focus on continuous process improvement.

Determine daily progress and status of deliverables on projects.

Lead both internal teams and offshore vendor teams in project delivery, and plans, and ensure proper staffing.

Ensure that all project resources are focused on the effort they are aligned to.

Must Haves:
5 years of experience in SDLC, solutions design, and delivery of enterprise-level solutions.

Experience working with business application owners and development teams.

Must have analytical skills, communication skills, creativity skills, customer service, decision-making skills, networking skills, organizational skills, presentation skills, and project management skills.

Implementing quality guidelines, standards, procedures, and experience.

Interfacing with external software design and development vendors’ experience.

Experience managing agile/scrum projects.

Experience managing the delivery of mid-to-large web/enterprise applications.

Technical experience in Microsoft .NET or SAP application development.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration.

Hours & Location

M-F, 40 hours/week. This role is 100% remote.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States and are required to have US residency at the time of application.

Please Note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines. Prior to coming into our offices, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)