Job title: Technology Consulting- IT PMO- UAE- Nationals
Company: EY
Job description: Whole industries have been disrupted and transformed in recent years by technology. As a technology consulting professional, you’ll help businesses realize the value they can gain from their IT investments – supporting strategy and being a key growth driver. As part of a high-performing team, you’ll deliver exceptional client service – providing advice on how technology enablement, transformation and enterprise intelligence contribute to performance improvement, as well as how technology can act as multiplying effect during major program transformations.
As organizations look to leverage the advantage technology offers, we’ll work with you to develop the consultancy and analytical skills that you’ll need in today’s environment. Working on projects that cross borders and sectors, the experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else. So, whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.
The Opportunity
As an IT Project Manager (PM), you will be part of a larger Technology Transformation engagement team serving one client at a time. You will lead projects that build on and/or enhance existing technology solutions. PMs provide the projects with agile or waterfall planning, execution management, governance, and reporting support. The PM is essential to facilitating meetings to connect stakeholders and reduce project delivery risks.
In the agile context, PMs may hold responsibilities for the planning, organization, and execution of agile scrum ceremonies.
Your key responsibilities
Project Management responsibilities:
- Support waterfall and agile project approaches/methodologies
- Monitor and track milestones and schedules; inclusive of status, dependencies, achievements, and risks/issues
- Organize and conduct escalation, blocker removal, and status meetings
- Uncover, triage, and highlight impediments impacting an on-time project completion
- Prepare content for steerco and quarterly divisional reviews
- Coordinate across project stakeholders and assist with internal and external communication
- Capture and maintain PM documentation
- Capture, track, monitor, and maintain estimates for project labor hours (internal/external)
- Organize and execute agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, demos, retrospectives as relevant to the project delivery methodology
- Potential certifications include: Agile, LEAN Six Sigma, Prosci, CBPA
Project Manager deliverables:
- Project documentation
- Labor estimates
- Project/sprint plans
- Milestone status and updates
- Quarterly status review content
- Action tracking
- Risk and issue tracking
- Sprint demo documentation
- Retrospective documentation
Agile Scrum Master responsibilities:
- Align delivery team ways-of-working to the standards and practices of clients
- Manage agile ceremonies, monitor, and manage sprint execution, dependency alignment, blocker chasing/resolution, etc.
- Plan and execute delivery team activities in operations in an agile manner (e.g., via Jira, standard scrum, with a focus on velocity measurement and improvement)
- Capture, monitor, manage, and resolve cross-team/capability team dependencies and produce regular progress reporting (e.g., burndowns, velocity, demos)
To qualify for the role, you must have
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree
- Approximately 3+ years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience leading business functions in at least one of the following areas:
- Business or technology consulting, transformation/PMO/EPMO design, target, process design and re-engineering, maturity assessment, capability roadmap development, strategy, and operations, change management, end-to-end technology implementation, data framework and automation & digital design and enablement.
- Proven success in leading and developing a team of staff/senior consulting professionals
- Potential certifications include: Agile, LEAN Six Sigma, Prosci, CBPA
- Experience in account and engagement management
- Involvement driving business development efforts. Experience with the end-to-end RFP process (RFP, Response, Proposal, Client Presentation, SOW and Execution) and understanding of client procurement processes. Experience supervising proposal-writing and presenting during RFP process
- Strong communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues, at all levels
- Ability to formulate and articulate questions to facilitate a quick understanding of a client’s business
- Aptitude and desire to learn new technologies and willingness to learn how to configure them
- Strong intellectual abilities and rigor balanced with practical sense of what works and what does not
- Strive to lead themselves, their teams, and their communities, and who can foster effective teamwork to drive results
- Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment. Play an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization
What we look for
Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.
What we offer
We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:
Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.
EY | Building a better working world
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Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform, and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax, and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
Expected salary:
Location: Dubai
Job date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:06:31 GMT
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