Project Roles and Descriptions

Project Manager:

1. Manages the project during the development, implementation and operations start-up by ensuring that resources are made available and that the project is developed and is fully operational within previously agreed time, cost and performance parameters.
2. Formulates statements of problems; establishes procedures for the development and implementation of significant, new or modified project elements to solve these problems, and obtains approval thereof.
3. Defines and documents the objectives for the project, determines budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities and terms of reference for the project team.
4. Reports progress of the project on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the life cycle.
5. Meets in conference with stakeholders and other project managers and states problems in a form capable of being solved.

Data Architect:

Primarily focus on design, development and maintenance of strategic, high-profile dashboards/reports. Architect plays a key role in the collection, analysis, selection, cleaning, modeling, storage and maintenance of data used in the dashboards/reports.

Business Analyst:

1. Works with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies.
2. Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers.
3. Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation.
4. Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
5. Supports one or more highly complex business processes.
6. Works on multiple projects as a project team member.
7. Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.

Data Analyst:

1. Leading development of test plans, scripts (manual or automated and data).
2. Participating in functional and technical design reviews, performing integration/functional and system testing, and verifying test results.
3. Identifying and documenting software defects using various software.
4. Participating with other project resources to resolve defects.
5. Performing regression testing of software applications.

Web Developer:

1. Application analysis and design, and development for the specified application.
2. Assist technical resources in the analysis of business requirements in order to establish the technical feasibility of proposed initiatives.
3. Responsible for the assessment and scoping of projects (from a development work effort perspective).
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
5. Ensure a timely delivery of quality products/functions which meet end-user requirements and that are developed following client’s development standards and methodology.
6. Responsible for performance analysis (from an application and environment perspective) and make recommendations to improve operational effectiveness.
7. Work in a development team comprising both internal staff and external consulting resources as required.
8. Deal effectively with external vendors, external business partners, and internal stake holders.
9. Must be able to work within tight deadlines and schedules which may result in external work hours to meet project deliverables.
10. Effectively communicate with departmental application development team members, management, and with the wider Oracle Project Office.
11. Assist with production support by 1) joining bridge calls to address production issues 2) carrying a production support pager for after hours support and 3) investigating customer support issues.

Quality Assurance:

1. Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
2. Develop testing programs that addresses areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, or usability.
3. Execute test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures.
4. Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers.
5. Identify, analyze and document problems with program function, output, online screen or content.
6. Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes.
7. Create or maintain databases of known test defects.

Technical Writer;

1. They will write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions.
2. They will responsible for organizing, editing and maintaining technical records and files.
3. Working closely with the architects to build security design documents and solution design documents as well as instruction manuals for Help Desk and/or end-user population.