Lead IT Project Manager

SR PROJECT MANAGER

Sr. Project Manager oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, business, and other stakeholders.

Responsabilities:

- Directly managing all aspects of the project lifecycle. Responsible for managing the complete lifecycle of government contract technology product implementations. Accountable for full life cycle project management, including project initiation and planning, development, testing, implementation, and closeout.
- Plan, program, and recommend allocation of resources to support the mission and associated goals and objectives. Responsibility for assembling the project staff; for their technical or functional development, performance, and/or termination during the project or projects. Develop, prioritize, and defend IT resource requirements.
- Develop project schedules and recommends appropriate lead-lag times. Plan workload for multiple project management teams and de-conflicts resources. Provide forward-looking schedule analysis to Leadership.
- Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas. Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
- Source the capabilities, skills, and technology necessary to meet business requirements supported by IT:
- Conducts regular, periodic, project management status meetings to apprise all stakeholders of project progress, issues, challenges, risks, and project management activities.
- Defining and tracking project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
- Accurately assessing, managing, and reporting dependencies, risks, and issues.
- Developing required project artifacts such as project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, etc. depending on methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
- Publishing periodic project status reports.
- What technical experience is required?- Plan projects from conception to implementation
- Map out timelines
- Assess project risks and opportunities
- Execute each phase of the project life cycle
- Create, allocate, and manage the budget
- Communicate with all stakeholders
- Troubleshoot problems and challenges
- Deliver the end product or service

What technical experience is a nice to have?
- Experience in managing the deployment of Microsoft solutions like O365, Teams, SharePoint, and others. Worked on projects related to infrastructure like networking, GWAN, servers, facilities, laptops/desktops, printing solutions, telephony and telecommunication’s integration.

What you need?
- Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
- PMP or PRINCE2 certification
- Agile/SCRUM certification
- Experience using ServiceNow desirable
- 5+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects
- 5+ years of experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment
- 3+ years of previous experience with gathering requirements from the business and documentation
- Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint with experience presenting to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership
- Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs
- Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective
- Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment
- Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities

SR PROJECT MANAGER