Program Manager - Master

Role Overview:

Project Manager is responsible for successful delivery of large and complex programs/projects through all phases of the Project Management Lifecycle, which includes initiation, planning, iterative development, continuous testing, execution, control & closeout of projects. The Project Manager will also be the primary technical point of contact to the customer and will be responsible for collaborating across multiple task areas, including infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS or on-premise), applications, QA, change management, and customer service support.

What You’ll Do

• Manage relationships with stakeholders, managers, and key software and services vendors for the delivery of projects and programs.

• Provide thought leadership and expertise for Software and/or Hardware system implementations, IT applications, business and systems processes.

• Manage the implementation of projects daily, including defining deliverables as well as creating and monitoring sprints, project schedules, and backlogs.

• Assist with internal communications and resource management as needed.

• Align project objectives with stakeholders'' objectives.

• Lead teams through all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using appropriate waterfall and agile methodologies and processes.

• Create project plans, resource plans, program metrics, communication plans, and develop analytics supporting delivery of life cycle activities.

• Develop communication plans to ensure business and executive stakeholders are well informed and are provided with accurate information for the status of managed initiatives and to support decision making.

• Identify project and resource dependencies and collaboratively work with team members to ensure the project schedule is followed.

• Effectively communicate project status, actions, decisions, risks, issues, and schedule for the customer''s project portfolio.

• Prepare executive steering committee communications as needed.

• Direct, motivate, and collaborate with project team members to ensure the team is provided with clear and accurate information in a timely manner that will enable them to complete assigned tasks within set times and deliver top performance.

• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience (12+ years) managing and implementing concurrent separate initiatives of varying size.
• Minimum of four individual multi-year project implementation experiences.
• Previous success leading initiatives within an Agile methodology environment.
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge and success as a team leader by motivating teams to success, creating an atmosphere of trust, seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation, providing information and direction to less-experienced staff, and coaching staff, including providing timely and meaningful written and verbal feedback.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Business, Finance, or a related field.

• PMP (Project Management Professional), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or other Agile/Scrum Master certification.