Overview
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Overview
The IT Delivery 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.
location: Hollywood, Florida
job type: Contract
salary: $75 - 80 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
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 client PPMO & RDM standards
- Define resource plan and manage throughout project life cycle
- Time Management:
o Define activity
o Sequence activity
o Estimate the duration of activity
o Develop a schedule
o Maintain a schedule
qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree - in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent
work experience.
- 7+ years leading Information Security or relevant work experience to include cloud
-
Size of project is $500K -$1M, or up to 5 small projects at a time, teams less/25
people or less
- Critical thinker
- Results-oriented
- Strong business acumen
- Influencer
- Facilitator
- Problem solver
- Budget and risk management
- Good communicator
- Highly collaborative
- Process Oriented
- Coach
- Led systems development methodology and infrastructure project delivery
- Executive presence
- 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
Cybersecurity Framework and Key Focus areas:
- Understanding of NIST based frameworks and how they are applied to secure
information (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover)
o Identify: Managing cybersecurity risks to systems, assets, data, and
business capabilities
o Protect: Implementing safeguards to ensure data, information and systems
are protected and secure
o Detect and Respond: Detection technology and response procedures are
implemented and regularly tested to ensure timely response to cybersecurity
incidents
o Recover: Develop and implement the appropriate activities to maintain
plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were
impaired due to a cybersecurity event
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree
- Project Management (PMI) or Agile Certification
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
- Experience using Planview
- 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
skills: Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree - in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent
work experience.
- 7+ years leading Information Security or relevant work experience to include cloud
-
Size of project is $500K -$1M, or up to 5 small projects at a time, teams less/25
people or less
- Critical thinker
- Results-oriented
- Strong business acumen
- Influencer
- Facilitator
- Problem solver
- Budget and risk management
- Good communicator
- Highly collaborative
- Process Oriented
- Coach
- Led systems development methodology and infrastructure project delivery
- Executive presence
- 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 t