Project Manager

We are seeking a Sr IT Project Manager to join our team! This is an instrumental role in supporting and driving technology and product development projects within Architecture, Development, and Infrastructure. Projects include product feature enhancements, resiliency and platform development, and net new product feature work. It will also encompass interaction with key internal customers and external vendors. This role will work with Jira reporting dashboards/administration. Focus on process improvement and automation.

Top Skills Details

1. Project Management experience (5+ years) *PMP required*
2. Jira (Confluence)
3. Scrum Master exp (2+ years) *CSM preferred

Key needs:
Ability to run concurrent IT, business application, operations, and development projects
Strong leadership skills and the ability to drive issue resolution
Ability to influence and drive outcomes without being in a position of authority
Strong reporting skills (document, track and report project status, activities, resources and progress)
Strong communication skills, able to communicate well at all levels, including senior management
Self-managed, ability to drive projects through to completion within expected delivery timeline
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to include reasoning skills such as storage, retrieval, matching and execution skills
Education, Experience and Knowledge:
Bachelor s Degree (BA, BS) or equivalent work experience
5+ years of project management experience; PMP preferred
Significant experience with JIRA and Confluence required; JIRA power user level, ability to run advanced queries highly preferred
LEAN or Six Sigma certification highly preferred
2+ years of Scrum experience
CSM or similar certification highly preferred
In depth understanding of project management, program management, and scrum best practices
Must have experience managing multiple interdependent projects or work streams
SDLC background with experience in complex multi-system projects
Experience working in variety of project methodologies (Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban)
Abilities:
Ability to listen to and provide support for teams in problem-identification and decision-making
Ability to create an environment of mutual influence
Ability to work both independently collaboratively with customers, peers and other stakeholders.
Ability to understand and analyze complex problems with multiple complex variables
Ability to interface effectively with stakeholders at all levels across the organization.
Ability to make measurable progress on multiple high priority task simultaneously
Ability to monitor and report on critical project achievements, and identify ways to resolve project blockers and scheduling issues

Looking for a PM with 5 years of experience managing large projects within application development. Must have experience working as a Scrum Master and have a background in both Agile and Water projects.

Heavy Jira experience is an absolute must
PMP certification and CSM preferred
Any LEAN/Six Sigma exposure is highly desired
Agile/Scrum, Kanban AND Waterfall experience highly desired
Must have solid experience with software development projects/SDLC; additional experience with infrastructure projects is desired as they will be working across the organization on a variety of projects