Overview

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for the successful end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, programs, and portfolios. The job leads projects, programs, portfolios or leads an Agile ART or several agile teams, through the systems development life cycle from planning through hyper care, working in close partnership with IT and business leaders including executive sponsors. The work also includes leading, collaboration, coaching team members and influencing others outside their direct team to ensure the success of initiatives.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

Experience in managing large and complex technical projects

Understanding of fundamentals of IT Architecture & Systems to deliver solutions is a must

Experience in integrating multiple systems (logic and data) across the enterprise is required

Functional knowledge and experience in implementing large and complex solutions either related to software, data or Infrastructure projects is required

Experience with Microsoft Office tools is required

Ability to create and follow work and data flow charts is required

Need to understand Software Development Life Cycle and various delivery methodologies like Waterfall and Agile

Duties and Responsibilities

Engage and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders

Continuously monitor costs and implement improvements to drive down the cost to plan and deliver

Drive process improvements in project delivery working in collaboration with key stakeholders in support of business objectives

Ensure key stakeholders can properly collect, prioritize, plan for, and execute projects

Execute required change management activities including training and communications

Leverage best practices, implement new processes, procedures, and controls to improve delivery capabilities overall

In collaboration with key stakeholders, forecast financial and resource needs to meet established objectives for delivery

Keep an eye to latest trends and best practices within the Portfolio and Project management space

Applies significant knowledge of industry trends, developments, and capabilities to address and improve business capabilities

Ensures that solutions and services deliver at or above expected business value

Define test metrics and monitor testing to ensure testing is completed per project schedule

Create work break down structures to support project delivery and track plan

Develop level of efforts by Develops and recommends changes to policies and procedures

Provide strong leadership over a diverse team of individuals including providing coaching and guidance to team members

Develop communications, training strategies and execute against them

Create and maintain project budgets

Identify, analyze, track, and manage to closure project risks and issues

Manage and organize project teams to support project needs

Manage projects to successfully meet business requirements and outcomes

working with resource managers as input to finalize project plans

Use level of efforts to assist in developing project budgets

Manage project progress and create effective status reports

Manage all required project documentation per SGWS PMO standards

Define resource plan and manage throughout project life cycle

Time Management:

Define activity

Sequence activity

Estimate the duration of activity

Develop a schedule

Maintain a schedule

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

7+ years leading system development or relevant work experience

Size of project is $500K -$1M, or up to 5 small projects at a time, teams less/25 people or less

Ability to lead a team environment with Agile delivery values

Experience managing multiple medium to complex projects across multiple functions including planning, analysis, design, development, implementation, and satisfaction of project requirements

Experience managing and mentoring project management staff including providing stretch opportunities and coaching to develop team and deliver results

Proven experience successfully managing business and technical resources under an integrated project plan to ensure the alignment of resources

Ability to take ownership for managing all aspects of project management from discovery through delivery implementation

Experience presenting, escalating, and providing solutions to senior leadership

Experience managing a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties. Proven record of focusing on building trusted relationship with those responsible for execution

Ability to quickly assess projects at the onset for areas of risk, identify gaps and recommend areas for improvement

Experience in change management related aspects of project execution and ability to incorporate change considerations in planning / execution of projects

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree

Project Management (PMI) or Agile Certification

Resource planning and capacity planning experience

Advanced knowledge of MS Project Enterprise

Experience working with portfolio leaders on resource capacity planning

Experience training project managers and resource manager

Agile Delivery Values

Openness – Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges

Commitment – Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team

Respect – Respect your team members to be capable and independent

Courage – You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems

Focus – Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team

Physical Demands

Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or adding machine

Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping

May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

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