Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager

Location: Local to Bay Area
Onsite: 1–2 days per week in Oakland

Responsibilities

• Direct project planning (scope, schedule, and budget), product feature initiation, project execution, and project closure by adhering to PG&E IT PMO standards and processes.
• Provide insight and guidance to analysis, estimation, design, evaluation, demonstration, construction, and implementation for multiple concurrent initiative solutions with medium or high complexity. Ensures outcomes satisfy business requirements and project deliverables meet quality targets.
• Budgets and financial experience must.
• Coordinate cross-functional discussions to understand overall strategy and ensure alignment of roadmaps and solutions
• Handle all responsibilities include dealing with the vendors, helping negotiate Statements of Work, ensuring that the vendors provide quality goods and services, handling various other related tasks/milestones and invoice payments.
• Lead project schedule and budget including cost plans, invoices, unit estimates, and work orders.
• Proactively and independently handle project risks and issues against project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Conduct and participate in regularly scheduled project team meetings and Sponsor updates to provide general status on project deliverables, milestones, and overall project work.
• Projects may be both Waterfall and Agile.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• B.A./B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in information technology, business administration, engineering, or other relevant field required
• Seven (7) or more years of project management experience, leading or supporting IT projects with balanced business and technical knowledge to provide credible leadership to multi-function project teams including Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts, and QA Personnel.
• Three (3) or more years of experience as a Project Manager handling medium to large, complex projects with multi-function teams with a solid track record of efficiently implementing software or cloud deployment projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.