This is a remote position.
About This Opportunity
CTI Staffing is partnering with a well-established financial services organization to find a Technical Project Manager for their IT software development group based. This is a 12-month contract.
The team delivers multi-phase, multi-year software initiatives into a mature enterprise application environment. This role keeps those projects on scope, on schedule, and on budget. You will also keep vendors, technical teams, and executives aligned.
What You’ll Do
- Lead multi-phase software development projects from design through production
- Define project scope, requirements, and lifecycle plans through deployment
- Build and manage project plans, schedules, and milestones
- Identify critical path decisions and make recommendations to leadership
- Manage project resources, hours, costs, and budget versus actual
- Create risk mitigation and contingency plans
- Drive issues to resolution and enforce project standards
- Keep vendors, technical teams, and executives aligned with clear communication
Requirements
What You Bring
Must-Have:
- 5+ years of project management on software development or IT initiatives
- 3+ years in a technical client-facing or vendor-facing role
- Proven record running complex projects from design and development to production
- Experience managing requirements, scope, and budgets, including budget to actual
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite and MS Project
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and manage several complex assignments at once
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in technology or business
Nice-to-Have:
- PMP certification or equivalent
- Business analysis experience
- Experience with Jira, Tempo, Confluence, and Smartsheets
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts and distributed workflow processes
- Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts
Technical Environment:
- MS Project, MS Office Suite
- Jira, Tempo, Confluence, Smartsheets
What Success Looks Like:
- An approved project plan with defined milestones within the first 30-60 days
- Budget-to-actual reporting running consistently by month three
- Vendors and technical teams aligned, and executives informed without surprises
Skills Required
- 5+ years of project management experience on software development or IT initiatives
- 3+ years in a technical client-facing or vendor-facing role
- Proven experience running complex projects from design and development through production
- Experience managing requirements, scope, budgets, and budget-to-actual reporting
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite and MS Project
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple complex assignments simultaneously
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in technology or business
- PMP certification or equivalent
- Business analysis experience
- Experience with Jira, Tempo, Confluence, and Smartsheet
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts and distributed workflow processes
- Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts
What We Do
CTI Consulting is a South Florida technology solutions and staffing firm founded in 1998. It provides IT staffing and nearshore staffing services for startups through Fortune 100 companies, alongside digital-product work such as designing, testing, deploying, improving, and updating mobile applications. The company emphasizes close client collaboration, comprehensive candidate evaluation, continuing education, and innovative, scalable software solutions that improve operational efficiency.
