Project Manager III

Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders, providing access to affordable mortgage financing in all markets at all times. Our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.

Plan, manage, and execute varied software development, customization, or IT systems development projects. Gather information at front end to determine project parameters and specifications, and to budget human, financial and other resources. May provide technical oversight to some staff and track attainment of project milestones. Report on progress and budget expenditures to project owners.

* Meet with application owners, application developers and analysts, coding staff and the like to determine business needs and functionalities desired for new or revised application. * Plan course of relatively large or complex project(s), including milestones, resources needed in the form of staff hours, budget, use of technology and tools and document in project plan, following established project management methodology. * Track course of project from meetings, conferring with developers, and receiving reports. Update project plan as needed. Document changes to scope or functionalities with change ticket, project plan, or other format. * Assess compliance of development process with accepted methodology and communicate to responsible managers or staff. Document exceptions or deviations as needed. Convene meetings and plan agenda to ensure important issues are aired and resolved. * Report on progress of project, use of staff, $ expenditures, progress on milestones and the like to application owners. * Provide guidance to project staff; may manage staff of analysts who are developing technical specifications or developers who are coding. May plan, document, manage and evaluate staff performance, or contribute to evaluation by their managers. * Contribute to professional or technical development of less experienced staff by mentoring or training.

**Education** * Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required **Minimum Experience** * 6+ years of related experience **Specialized Knowledge & Skills** * Project Manager III is responsible for the performance of large sized technical and complex project or several medium sized projects in accordance with company initiatives, policies, procedures and guidelines. * Directs and supervises all support resources for the performance of project assignments and activities. Manages the technical direction of a project through the design, implementation and testing in accordance with project objectives. * The candidate is required to use FNM's program management tools to manage project work plans, issues, risks, and dependencies. * The candidate produce status reports and conducts status meetings and facilitates issue resolution and risk management sessions with all levels of management as needed.