IT Project Manager Jobs in New Jersey

Position Title: IT Project Manager

Location: Berkeley Heights New Jersey 07922

Duration: 12 Months (Contract to Hire)/ No C2C

Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC OR GC candidates

Job Summary:

Typical day: they start a project once they have an SOW in place, get on a call with client and agree on a plan, configure account, setup API features, explain the use cases, hand over credentials of APIs to technical team, customer then starts integrating them.

• 4 flavours of implementation
• Combination of working directly with the vendors (IT or ERP vendors) for the small-medium clients, or working with the client’s PM’s (for the larger clients)
• Technical PM: scopes everything, can handle multiple implementations at a time, overall the team may have around 25-30 implementations in flight, going through SOW and understanding it, putting a plan in place, setting up weekly touch points with counterparts, status reports, able to understand the CR (change request) and negotiate with the customer when needed
• Technical aspects: the PM needs to be able to understand the SOW and product to put together a plan, 4-5 components in a project, development project bg as a PM
• PM tools the team uses: Confluence, SharePoint, Jira, Fiserv 360

Top skills needed:

- Able to manage multiple implementations, 5-8 at any given time at different stages
- Strong PM skills – governance, stakeholder management, status reports, etc.
- Cross-functional, collaborative, work with engineers to stakeholders, able to push these teams to deliver on the timelines
- Development background as a PM - SDLC, app dev
- Fintech background, payments background preferred

About Matlen Silver

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At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
- 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)