Overview

The Senior Project Manager IT job 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 & 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

Primary 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

Plan and run test plans

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

Build strong teams

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

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

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

Additional Qualifications

Extensive experience leading sprint planning, design, coding, unit testing, sprint reviews

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Extensive experience in providing design documents and translating into component-level designs to accelerate development

Leader in defining and development of project requirements, functional specifications, and detailed designs of application solutions

Showcases strong organizational effectiveness, improvement, and development skills

Experience as an exceptional facilitator including light-touch facilitation Experience in teaching Product Owners / Process Owners how to maximize ROI and meet objectives

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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