Senior IT Project Manager

Job ID: 2116187

• Establish, monitor and track milestones and schedules; inclusive of status, dependencies, achievements, and risks/issues
• Organize and conduct escalation, blocker removal, and status meetings
• Uncover, triage, and highlight impediments impacting an on-time project completion
• Prepare content for executive steering committee and quarterly divisional reviews
• Coordinate across project stakeholders and assist with internal and external communication
• Capture and maintain PM documentation
• Capture, track, monitor, and maintain estimates for project labor hours (internal/external)
• Organize and execute agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, demos, retrospectives as relevant to the project delivery methodology
• Define project success criteria and disseminate to involved parties throughout project lifecycle.
• Effectively communicate and manage project expectations to project managers, owners, sponsors, team members, and other stakeholders in a clear and concise fashion.
• Effectively manage project teams' time and allocate resources to ensure deliverables are completed.
• Where required, negotiate with functional area managers for the allocation of required personnel from within the program.
• Assist and oversee the development of task order responses and cost estimates.
• Contribute to best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.
• Accept and assess status reports, change requests, and requirements documentation to ensure smooth project progression.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience
• PMI Certification as a Project Management Professional an asset
• Minimum of 10 years of proven experience in IT Project Management, including all aspects of process development and execution
• 3-5 years of agile project management preferred
• Proven leadership skills; persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
• Strong communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues, at all levels
• Ability to formulate and articulate questions to facilitate a quick understanding of a client's business
• Strong intellectual abilities and rigor balanced with practical sense of what works and what does not
• Strive to lead themselves, their teams, and their communities, and who can foster effective teamwork to drive results
• Strong cost management skills
• Involvement in business development efforts. Experience with the end-to-end RFP process (RFP, Response, Proposal, Client Presentation, SOW and Execution) and understanding of client procurement processes
• Strong knowledge of project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or ServiceNow)
• Knowledge of the IT Operations lifecycle, IT Service Management, and ITIL
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Highly organized with a keen attention to detail

• Project Management certifications: Agile, SAFe, LEAN Six Sigma, Prosci, or CBPA
• ITIL Certification
• Experience with end-to-end responsibility of Service Transition projects
• 5-7 years of Portfolio Management Experience
• Experience in Transformation/PMO/EPMO design, process design and re-engineering, capability roadmap development, change management, and end-to-end technology implementations