Sr. Project Portfolio Manager

Position: Sr. Project Portfolio Manager

Location: Reston VA #HYBRID

Duration: 6months #C2H

Rate: $65/hr

Job Description :

• This position will have responsibility for support and enhancements of a highly visible and strategically significant Project and Portfolio Management application.
• The candidate must have Clarity PPM ( Project Portfolio Management ) technical and functional experience.

Key Responsibilities :

• The role requires the candidate to integrate with and actively contribute to a well-established application and PMO tools support team.
• Must have strong technical skills coupled with good customer-facing skills while being able to troubleshoot and problem solve application issues independently.
• The ideal candidate will provide excellent technical and end user application support.

Responsibilities will include :

• Provide application and subject matter expertise in both Clarity PPM technical and functional areas.
• Architect recommend and design systems solutions that meet customers requirements; manage implementation of solutions architected.
• Configuration and customization of Clarity PPM components including objects portlets process workflows lookups etc.
• Mange all technical aspects of the Clarity PPM upgrades - Research testing troubleshooting planning documenting differences implementing defining processes and standards.
• Support the development of training materials for the end-user.
• Clarity PPM Support and Training - Strong knowledge of the Clarity PPM tool with the ability to train users of a wide range of roles: - PMO Power users/Clarity Leads Project Managers and Time Entry users.
• Experience with building deploying and communicating change through eLearning software.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and partners in a global company.
• Represent and ensure end users interests when implementing functional changes in partnership with vendor partners and technical teams.
• Monitor support queue- work directly with users on Clarity issues.
• Clarity PPM Support - support the needs of the Clarity community at an enterprise level.
• Candidate is expected to be a self-starter who will actively contribute to the stability support and maturity of the product as well as any additional responsibilities supporting corporate applications.
• Maintain existing Clarity website on the company intranet which hosts informational resources training material job aids etc. Create new artifacts on the Clarity website.
• Participate in system updates and upgrades testing and related activities (creation and execution of test scripts coordination of UAT testing communication etc.)

Work Experience and Skills :

• 5 years experience in managing Clarity at a technical level leading upgrades and system troubleshooting
• Experience with Clarity PPM 16.3x
• Experience with Clarity PPM New UI
• In-depth experience with developing and fine-tuning MS SQL queries as well as Clarity PPM Entity Relationship Diagram.
• Design and development of Clarity PPM portlets. Advanced level of experience with NSQL queries.
• Development of processes in Clarity PPM using GEL scripts.
• Knowledge of Clarity PPM Web Services/XOG and Java for Clarity PPM integration with other applications.
• Hands on expertise with all aspects of implementations requirements gathering & analysis design configuration and testing.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office (with advanced proficiency in MS Excel) MS Teams MS SharePoint and MS Project.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive self-motivated detail-oriented and creative.

Education / Licenses/Certifications :

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a similar major preferred
• ITIL Foundations v4 within 180 Days Pref

Thanks & Regards
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LAXMAN
Team Lead - Talent Acquisition

KMM Technologies Inc.
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