Job Requirements:
- 4-5 years job-related experience
- Excellent skills in data organization and analysis, problem solving, requirements elicitation and documentation
- Strong skills in business process analysis and workflow diagramming; experience using these skills on projects to develop workflow-based enterprise software
- Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Process, including incremental/iterative/Agile and Waterfall methods
- Knowledge of SQL, database, and relational data models
- Effective analytical and presentation skills
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills; ability to tailor communication to different audiences, such as management, stakeholders, users, SMEs, developers, and others
- Ability to lead others to articulate additional possibly hidden needs
- Ability to communicate and work effectively with both functional area experts and technical team members
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
Preferred experience:
- Experience leading a project or part of a project
- Experience being both a PM and BA on the same project
- Experience working with Project Management software and tools
- Experience or strong knowledge in one or more technical solutions/architectures such as web services, portals, business process modeling, UI technologies like AJAX, relational databases, Business Intelligence preferred (coding experience not required)
- Ability to manage work on multiple projects with competing priorities
- Experience overseeing user acceptance testing and providing test cases/test scenarios for UAT
- Experience working with web application development teams who use technologies such as Java and Drupal
- Experience working in research/educational institutions or small IT companies preferred
Sample Projects:
- Projects supporting researchers and staff internally at GTRI as well as for the entire campus, including proposal management, compliance tools, researcher dashboards, talent management software, and financial applications
- Project types include in-house Java development, web development, Cognos reports, implementation and support of third party software, enterprise systems integration, as well as database and systems infrastructure projects.
Education:
A Bachelor’s degree is required: Preferred degree in Business, Accounting, or IT-related field