Project Manager - Alation Data Governance

Req ID: 317642 

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We are currently seeking a Project Manager - Alation Data Governance to join our team in Dallas, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Job Description:

The Project Manager will support a project for Factory Establishment to connect applications to Alation solution and perform preliminary automated tagging. Strong organizational skills, exceptional stakeholder management and execution focused. The project will be using Waterfall to stand up a factory model to ingest 450 applications in the client’s Enterprise Data Catalog.

 

Project Management Duties:

• Support the McKesson Delivery Leader through all duties to support the overall execution of the project/initiative. This includes driving collaboration, alignment and integrated delivery for a given project/initiative.
• Document scope, timeline, resource plan, and stakeholders.
• Lead the project team through each phase of the project.
• Identify and manage all issues and risks on the project; escalate items timely.
• Ensure that all the project tasks and deliverables remain on track and within cost.
• Manage the project folder and related documentation, ensuring decisions and status updates are captured timely.
• Communicate and maintain project progress and decisions via meetings and status reports on a regular basis and on demand based on stakeholder need.
• Establish and manage realistic and committed project schedules; taking into consideration deadlines, dependencies, resources, and costs when making changes and decisions to schedule.
• Ensure that the Project Team shares a common understanding of the project, that adequate resources are being applied consistent with the set timeframe.
• Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from the Project Sponsor and Stakeholders, as required for the given project.
• Establish a project site and organize and maintain project documentation to support needs.
• Track financial spend against budget on third party purchases where needed.
• Maintain stakeholder list, develop communication plans, and assist with creating communications deliverables as needed.
• Use the following technologies: Microsoft: Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint; Jira
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Adjust project management approaches as needed, based on industry best practices and professional judgement.
• Facilitate discussions to drive decision making, share information and collect information, as required by the project.
• Proactively manage change control and communicate impact in project scope, identify risks/issues, a