Job Description

The Project Manager will assist in the work towards GE digital transformation in the areas of IT
application systems, specifically in the areas of Analytics, data science, AI, ML and association
management systems.
You will be responsible to manage the project for the implementation of the IT application system or
services and ensure it meets the business operation goals.
You are a independent, resourceful, decisive and driven individual who takes a proactive approach to
analyze business requirements with stakeholders and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle.
You will need to be a capable project manager with project management knowledge as well as a good
communicator.
The Senior Project Manager will manage and oversee a series of projects on big data from initiation to
implementation, working with BI and Analytics team, Integration/ETL team, QA team, project members,
data architects, and business sponsors and business representatives to jointly design, develop and
implement the best-fit solutions. The Service Manager is required to plan, manage, execute and track the
progress of concurrent projects, to bring the projects to their successful completion.
This role entails identifying and initiating opportunities across the Enterprise, building collaboration, and
influencing strategic direction by raising visibility of trends and issues across the competitive landscape.
The position requires a wide understanding new IT technology stacks and industry trends and practices.
Highly effective in engaging senior management, project sponsors in communication and collaboration
across internal and external teams with demonstrated success, building strong relationships and
delivering results in cross-group projects.
Senior Project Manager
IT \xe2\x80\x93 Data-Driven Business
IT Transform & Enterprise Architecture / Group IT

The Job

• Own and be responsible for the successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on

time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget. * Manage project lifecycle, from requirement, design, technical construction, testing, acceptance,

training, documentation and implementation, in accordance with the GE\xe2\x80\x99s Project Management
Process and Methodology. * Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, preparation of high level

project plan with project timeline and resource requirements, and staffing and organization of
project team. * Plan, coordinate and communicate project plan, timeline and activities to the project team.

• Work closely with the group of key business owners and source systems SMEs, IT Risk &

compliance, IT Security, QA on the agreed project objectives. * Monitor and track progress of projects and stay on top of the projects to ensure smooth execution.

• Manage and coordinate project deliverables, ensuring their quality and configuration

management. * Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans.

• Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues
• Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution.
• Manage performance of the project team, guide the project team in resolving issues, and resolve

conflicts within the project team. * Manage customer\'s expectation by understanding customers\' needs and providing realistic

expectations and scope of the projects. * Manage and work closely with vendors, business partners and data centre involved in projects.

• Provide periodic update on project progress to project sponsors and escalate project issues not

resolvable not project team level. * Provide periodic update on project progress to project sponsors and escalate project issues not

resolvable not project team level and PSC team. * Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes

appropriate steps to mitigate the risks. * Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and

technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company. * Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Qualifications

Our Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of development methodologies and implementation
• Possess experience in managing the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile or

Waterfall software development practices. * Possess experience in managing vendor and contracts for application maintenance supports and

services * Candidates with relevant Industry certifications would be preferred.

Ver 1.0 * Good interpersonal and communication skills to manage relevant stakeholders

• Certified Project Manager, either CITPM or PMP, with at least 10 years of experience in managing

IT projects and software/application development lifecycles, Scrum Certified. * Strong delivery management experience, with proven track records in managing and steering

projects towards smooth execution and on time delivery. * Strong problem solving and analytical skills, with passion for making data-driven decisions.

• Experience in use of project management and collaboration tools is required (E.g. Microsoft

Project, Confluence, Jira Software, Kanban Boards, etc.) * Knowledge of big data platforms and analytics tools is required E.g. Hortonworks, Hive, Spark,

Sqoop, Tableau, Qilk, SAS Vija \xe2\x80\xa6 etc * Knowledge of technology, tools and process related to data governance, master data

management and data lineage is required. * Knowledge of cloud technology Eg. AWS, snowflake \xe2\x80\xa6etc

• Excellent in verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, effective in fostering teamwork and managing high

performance project team. * A working understanding of Cloud computing, Data Science, and/or Machine Learning.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Familiar with current topics in big data / data analytics such as natural language processing,

complex event processing, machine learning, computer vision, deep learning, supervised or
unsupervised skills, OpenCV, tensorflow, dockers container management is desired. * Experience or skill for software programing language for Java, Shell scripting, Python or Java

Scripts. * High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.

• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

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