IT Program Manager

IT Program Manager

Location: Fremont, CA (Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Required Skills:

•            Minimum of ten (15) years of IT experience.

•            Project Management Certification preferred but not required (PMP)

•            10+ years’ experience in successfully leading and managing across diverse projects and programs

•            Security certifications like Security+, CISSP is a plus

•            Technical experience is required; SDLC, Agile & Scrum methodology experience required

•            Strong cross-group collaboration skills and experience working across multiple teams both within the division and across the company

•            Excellent interpersonal, human relations, written, verbal and listening communication skills

•            Ability to assist in creating project roadmaps

•            Experience with working with MS Project, O365, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, Jira

Job Responsibilities:

•            Execution IT projects in various aspects – Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security.

•            Applies project management disciplines and experience, develops plans to include project definitions, scope, business requirements, cost, completion dates, resource allocation, and quality/reliability for a group of projects in 1 or more complex programs

•            Actively partners with IT teams to ensure appropriate processes and templates are utilized for project and program success

•            Accountable for establishing and managing multiple project deliverables, communicating project and program vision and ensuring IT resources are aligned properly

•            Maintains the project budget schedules, and manages resource levels to achieve project success

•            Utilize both agile and waterfall methodologies, driving technical and functional teams to complete critical path business requirements in a timely fashion

•            Develops and implements corrective action plans when deviations from budgets and/or schedules are evident

•            Develops and manages short- and long-term program roadmaps

•            Prioritizes work on projects and programs based on business need and IT capability

•            Drives expectation setting and leadership management within IT and the business

•            Drive and assist with the development of business cases

•            Engage with key business stakeholders to understand their needs, document requirements, and perform business analysis

•            Facilitates vendor selection process and manages vendor relationships

•            Maintains a high level of organization and planning while communicating with stakeholders to reach timelines and maintain customer satisfaction

•            Regularly identifies risks and communicates project health to senior leadership

•            Identifies and directs changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.

•            Resolves most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently, but intuitively escalates complex issues to Portfolio management

•            Looks for process definition and improvement opportunities and leads others in adhering to existing IT processes and contributing to their improvement

•            Demonstrates flexibility and resilience in response to changing or ambiguous work situations