Project Manager/Business Analyst
As the Project Manager (PM)/Business Systems Analyst (BSA), you will become part of an elite technology team specializing in mergers and acquisitions infrastructure migration projects.
In your Project Management capacity, you will be required to build and maintain a project plan, track project team deliverables, validate team member timesheets, maintain Kanban board activities, conduct project team meetings, report status to client project/program managers, attend many project meetings with the broader, client project team.
In your Business Systems Analyst capacity, you will document the “as-is” infrastructure and application computing environment of an acquired company to provide Lead Architects the information necessary to develop migration and transition plans.
As part of the M&A team you will need to be an enthusiastic self-starter and facilitator, capable of working between the IT team of our Client and the IT team of the acquired company. You must have excellent communication and collaborative working skills. You will be part of a team of server, network, cloud, and desktop architects and engineers and, the “face of Harvard Partners” in the role of PM/BSA depending upon the acquisition.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
This role transcends the various phases of our methodology. During each phase, this individual will have tasks and deliverables such as:
Discovery
- Responsible for creating and maintaining the “Discovery Log,” which is the “master document” of data collected from the acquired company
- This data will be collected through conversations with IT staff led by our Lead Architects and deep discovery provided by our engineers. You will need to compile this information and produce a requirements document (also known as a “Persona”) and “Point-of-View” document.
- During Discovery, you must also identify business processes needing to be absorbed or replaced by our Client. These business processes will get documented and handed-off to the “Business as Usual” Client team.
- Be the “librarian” of artifacts used by the Architects and Engineers and ensure everything is catalogued and documented in the event of an audit.
- Create, seek approval for, and communicate a project plan, adding tasks to our Kanban Board, for this and other phases of the project
- Track task status, team time, and produce status reports
Solution/Integration Design and Approach
- Support Architects and Engineers during this phase by conducting “Intake Calls” to gather additional information during this process. This usually results in scope change, which is acceptable at this phase of the project.
- Update project plan as appropriate, track task status and team time, and produce status reports.
User Acceptance Testing ( “Early Adoption”)
- Based on data collected during the Discovery phase, create test plans.
- Document testing results and initiate additional Solution/Integration Design and Approach tasks in the event of necessary changes.
- Update project plan as appropriate, track task status and team time, and produce status reports.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Project Manager and Business Systems Analyst with an understanding of how to gather and communicate requirements for computing infrastructures and manage IT infrastructure projects.
- Experience project managing an infrastructure or application migration project
- PMP or equivalent Project Management certification
- Proficiency with Agile methodologies
- Basic knowledge of how desktops, laptops, servers, storage, networks, databases, security, resiliency, and cloud environments (including Software as a Service) interoperate within complex computing environments.
- Expertise doing complex analysis and reporting with Microsoft Excel and creating deliverables using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
- A self-starter capable of researching, developing, and communicating requirements with limited up-front detailed knowledge.
- The ability to multitask across multiple projects with overlapping deliverables.
- Be comfortable working in a hybrid environment.
- Be able to present ideas in an open forum with executive-level attendants.
- Create weekly status reports, track time, and escalate risks.
Ideal candidates will be able to show the following:
- A project plan you created and used to manage a project to completion.
- Output from work done as a Business Systems Analyst.
- Internal and external project communication.
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