APPLICATION PROJECT MANAGER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Updated: July 29, 2024 - The Application Project Manager is adept at leading IT projects in Wealth Management within Japan, ensuring adherence to budgets, timelines, and quality standards. Proficient in managing risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication while driving effective project governance. Fluent in Japanese and English, with a background in the F2B securities industry, delivering strategic solutions and meeting project deliverables consistently.
Summary of Application Project Manager Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BS in Computer Engineering with 3 years of experience
- Software project management/leadership experience
- Microsoft .NET Platform (C#, Oracle/SQL Server, WCF, WPF, Entity Framework)
- Familiarity with object oriented concepts
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server - Version Control.
- Experience working with technical teams to define and implement IT solution architectures, including software development, software configuration and integration, and IT Infrastructure implementations
- Experience effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Familiarity with Agile/SAFE, DevOps
- Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives
- Influence and work across multiple organizations and levels, as well as across multiple geographic regions
- Skill leading and participating in virtual meetings
- Elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources.
2. BS in Data Science with 2 years of experience
- Experience in Leading the delivery of IT projects, focusing on Wealth Management business in Japan
- Experience in Managing the budget, risk, dependencies, quality and change at the program level
- Experience in Drive effective project governance to stay in line with scope, budget and timelines
- Experience in Assess and remediate risks and issues, tracking these plus deliverables on RAID reports
- Experience in Liaise with project stakeholders, gaining go forward decisions and signoffs
- Experience in Allocate, utilize and direct personnel resources to drive projects to completion
- Work with cross-division IT teams to deliver strategic solutions
- Manage local vendors to comply with the bank's standard project governance and meet project schedule.
- Fluent in Japanese and English to support local client base and global stakeholders
- Experience in Worked as an IT project manager, focusing on F2B securities industry
- Experience in Managed all facets of large-scale IT integration projects and met deliverables
- Strategic thinker and excellent communicator, able to coach, lead and convince
3. BS in Information Systems Management with 3 years of experience
- Experience in application development project management experience.
- Experience working with project management methodology, project planning, control and assurance methodologies, project management software and finance and accounting concepts and practices
- Experience working with public sector projects using J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, IBM application servers, and associated technologies.
- Experience working with techniques and approaches related to the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of project phases.
- Have Project Management experience developing custom applications
- Have demonstrated experience managing multiple cross-functional projects of medium to high complexity
- Have Project Management Experience implementing/upgrading Cloud-based Xmas applications is ideal
- Have demonstrated knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques.
- Have Project Management Institute PMP certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum
4. BS in Management Information Systems with 4 years of experience
- Project Management experience (creating charters, defining scope, budgeting projects, scheduling teams)
- Have professional experience implementing or upgrading Unified EndPoint Management systems
- Having successfully managed at least 1 Sharepoint migration project.
- Professional experience implementing or upgrading Cloud-based systems (Saas, Paas, Iaas).
- Having fluency in English requires strong verbal and written communication skills are mandatory.
- Have the ability to develop and sustain cooperative working relationships as part of a team
- Have the ability to exercise confidentiality and strong customer focus and service orientation.
- Have the ability to allocate one's time effectively, work under pressure, and manage tight deadlines
- Have the ability to handle multiple demands and competing priorities, adapt to new ideas and constant changes
- Have the ability to self-motivate, self-manage, work independently with minimal direction, be highly organized and flexible with schedule.
- Have strong technical and problem-solving skills and strong project management skills.
- Increasingly responsible information technology experience.
5. BS in Electrical Engineering with 5 years of experience
- Working experience in project management in the technology or engineering sector, especially System Integration project manager experience in the process industry sector
- Have a good level of understanding or experience in Chemical/Petrochemical/Refinery plant process and operations
- Have a good level of understanding or experience in plant automation systems such as Distributed Control Systems (DCS), historian and real-time database systems, and plant IT infrastructure
- Have a good level of understanding in BI/OI applications, software development lifecycle (SDLC), application support and testing (Unit, System, Integration, UAT, and Performance)
- Have excellent team (internal and sub-contractors) management skills
- Have excellent client-facing and team-internal written and verbal communication skills
- Have solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Have PMP / PRINCE II certification
- Have the ability to work independently
6. BS in Business Administration with 6 years of experience
- Experience working with technical teams to define and implement IT solution architectures, including software development, software configuration and integration, and IT Infrastructure implementations
- Experience effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Have familiarity with Agile/SAFE, DevOps
- Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives
- Influence and work across multiple organizations and levels, as well as across multiple geographic regions
- Have skill leading and participating in virtual meetings
- Elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources
- Responsible for Japanese bank clients’ application projects as project manager and manage project resources (engineering resource, budget and timeline) to deliver server infrastructure system (Windows, RedHat Linux, virtual server) to client on time.
- Communicate with multiple Internal and external stakeholders closely to execute projects smoothly.
- Manage and solve issues quickly when encounter any type of issues during project period.
- Having working experience in IT vendor environment
- Experience in project management of application system implementation for banking accounts.
- Experience in developing application as engineer.
- Fluent Japanese and English speaking skills are MUST to communicate with clients
- Able to work independently and proactively
7. BS in Software Engineering with 7 years of experience
- Strong and demonstrated MS SQL experience
- Proficient in SAP Crystal Reports editor, Transact-SQL, SSRS, Microsoft Dynamics, HTML, and CGI Scripting
- Experience in a variety of data integration technologies – ETL, flat files, XML, SOAP, etc
- Expert knowledge of relational databases / ERP system design, and support principles
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail
- Database Management, Project Management ,Epicor experience
- Completed ERP project implementations
- Excellent written, oral, instructional, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Policy and procedures development
- Lumber, retail, manufacturing, or supply chain experience desirable
8. BS in Information Technology with 4 years of experience
- Experience with Planview or other PPM Tools (Clarity, HP PPM, etc.…)
- Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Strong leadership and issue resolution skills
- Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong experience in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint
- Ability to prioritize tasks and delegate when appropriate.
- PMP and/or comparable project management certifications
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on computer
9. BS in Industrial Engineering with 6 years of experience
- Good knowledge on Project management practices
- Knowledge of all phases of IT system development and implementation life cycle
- Experience in Core Banking related subjects
- Capacity to define an overview of the project and to explain it to the team
- Strives to deliver the solution in the most effective and timely manner
- Work on complex systems and a challenging international work environment
- Good experience in MS project or any Project Management tool
- Analysis methods and languages such as UML and strong analytic skills
- Excellent inter-personal skills, presentation skill, including ability to influence, communication capability in a proper manner with others and cooperativeness in a team
- Experience in working in a multicultural environment
- Ability to adapt, show proactivity and professionality
- Strong project management core competencies
- Understanding all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Practical experience in Scrum/Agile or Waterfall software development process
- Experience with modern project management tools, preferably JIRA/Confluence and Trello/Slack etc. with report automation approach.
- Proactive and team-focused mindset and calculate ROI of project