Project Lead| Qatar Airways | Doha - Qatar

Location: Doha
Company Name: Qatar Airways Group

About Your Job

In this role, you will be responsible for planning, co-ordination, execution and monitoring large in-house development/ product implementations. You will be managing business function accounts, ensure the delivery of assigned IT projects/solutions, co-ordinate with stakeholders like, business users, IT management, other departments and QR vendors. This role involves technical understanding, stakeholder management, and application support.

About you

To be successful in the role You must have

• A degree in Engineering/ Computer Science/ Mathematics/ Sciences with over all IT experience of 7+ years

• Problem solving capabilities, personal flexibility and agility.

• Should have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.

  
  

Responsibilities

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Ensure Project plans are realistic, maintained and properly resourced.
• Ensure Delivery is within time and cost.
• Ensure the project plan, code quality standard, application security standard related process are defined and tracked with the release of the application.
• Projects are carried out through the defined phases fully complying with QR IT processes and procedures.
• Solutions meet agreed requirements and business expectations, are maintainable and meet documented and agreed criteria. This requires that all solutions are adequately tested (functional, non-functional, performance and integration tested) before User Acceptance Testing.
• Risks are assessed and mitigation/management strategies are designed.
• Timely and accurate project information and reporting is provided to IT management and business.
• Responsible for working closely with vendor partners, business users, contract team and track product implementation project throughout the lifecycle (RFI, RFP/RFT, Technical Evaluation, Implementation, Go live etc.).
• Ensure that assigned applications are adequately supported. Manage the application support teams/suppliers.
• Analyze system faults, assess severity levels, and provide solutions
• Link similar problems by users or systems to enable detailed reporting and trend analysis
• Ensure in service reviews for external suppliers
• Perform business analysis activities to analyze user requirements, define solutions requirements, and document system specifications.
• Provide fair and accurate feedback on the performance of resources assigned to projects and application support.
• Contribute Business – IT strategy and IT budgeting of assigned business units.
• Proven working experience as a project administrator in the information technology sector
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development.
• Domain knowledge of Group Safety and Security / QR Medical will be an added advantage.
• PMP / PRINCE2 certification or evidence of completion is an added advantage.