Project Manager
Irvine, CA

Job Description

The Job

ThoughtFocus is looking for a Project Manager with a successful work history within the Business Intelligence space. The candidate must have Higher Education domain experience and a track record of bringing projects in on-time and under budget.

Essential Job Functions

* Support project teams by providing guidance on Agile and traditional methodologies, and by working with the necessary resources to remediate issues impeding execution.
* Supervises, coaches, mentors and motivates project teams throughout the project lifecycle.
* Develops and delivers progress reports (including assessments of schedules, issues and risks, burn down and velocity reports), proposals and project documentation to the team, stakeholders and various levels of management across the organization
* Partners with IT and business product owners to efficiently manage the product backlog, including prioritization and estimation.

Required Education, Skills and Experience

* Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
* 8+ years of project management experience in an enterprise environment
* Candidate must have experience across the full SDLC with a heavy emphasis on Oracle PeopleSoft and/or Oracle EBS projects.
* Higher Education domain experience
* PMP certification preferred

Who We Are

ThoughtFocus is a privately held IT services, software engineering and business process management firm with offices in the US, India and the Philippines. It helps clients in the financial services, manufacturing, education, aerospace and technology industries with their key business and technology challenges. ThoughtFocus brings critical program acceleration to client initiatives while minimizing costs and risks with intellectual capital, technical and process frameworks, operating models and software infrastructure.

We have 1,800+ professionals globally and are growing rapidly across all office locations. In the US, ThoughtFocus has offices in California, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Georgia and Texas. As an organization, ThoughtFocus strives to build lasting relationships. ThoughtFocus was founded in 2004 and continues to be an employee-owned company with a minority investment from the Blackstone Group.

Affirmative Action Statement

ThoughtFocus adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.