Westlake
Principal Functional Analyst (Contract)
US - Houston, TX · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
Project ManagementExcelCommunicationProblem SolvingTime ManagementMicrosoft Office
About the role
- Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment.
- This role has ultimate responsibility to monitor the use and performance, prepare ad hoc reports, identify and resolve application issues, and establish quality measures and standards that ensure the application runs at peak performance.
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain communications with business sponsors and business owners to ensure user satisfaction is maintained.
- Plans, controls and manages the delivery of IS projects and applications to meet the agreed business needs, acquiring and utilizing the necessary resources and skills, and agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.
- Develops project plans (i.e., detailed plan, milestones, and work breakdown structures) and assigns tasks to resources to ensure the project will be completed on time and according to specifications.
- Manages project life cycles, including project scope, resources, schedule, initiation, start-up/design, building, and deployment to see projects from beginning-to-end.
- Forwards project documents to stakeholders to obtain sign-off, agreement on project costs, and needed resources; and works with Transition Managers to facilitate the introduction of new capability to the organization.
- Follows up with assigned resources formally (e.g., status meetings, etc.) and informally to continuously manage the productivity of the team, project timelines, and deliverables.
- Balances multiple projects and deployment schedules to meet stakeholder goals and expectations and communicates with management to ensure agreement on design and status of the project.
- Communicates potential conflicts and/or problems (e.g., missing milestone deadlines) to management to manage expectations and solicit assistance and assesses project team member contributions to provide input to management on performance.
- Support and maintenance of applications.
- This position is accountable for project delivery for the project life cycle (design, build, test) of IS projects and application support.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent level of relevant IT experience.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to balance multiple job assignments at once
- Ability to produce high quality work in a short period of time with little supervision
- Demonstrates initiative, taking prompt action to identify issues/opportunities and accomplish objectives, going beyond what is required and/or expected.
- Ability to attend training courses, learn and apply new technologies
- Ten or more years of IS experience.
- Five years of IS project management experience,
- Expert troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
- Strong systems analysis and design skills
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills and ability to frame issues clearly for less technical colleagues and customers.
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Strong command of MS Office tool set (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and MS Project
Nice to have
- PMP Certification is preferred.
- Excellent understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) preferred.
Company info
- Conducts "lessons learned" meetings with customers to validate commitments were met and identify gaps and shortfalls.
Equal opportunity
- Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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