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We are looking for an exceptional IT Project Manager based in or near Philadelphia, PA that wants to grow a successful career and want to be part of an ambitious, highly focused team. As a project manager, you will be part of a high-visibility portfolio of projects, working on leading-edge initiatives. Your primary responsibilities will be managing a technical project delivery team supporting the migration of applications into a cloud-based environment from legacy on-premise architecture.Note: This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely: Monday & Friday / On-site in Downtown Philadelphia: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.
Key Responsibilities:- Directly manages all aspects of the project lifecycle and works with matrix IT partners to oversee all deliverables
- Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan that includes contingency plans, inter- and intra-project, and solution dependencies, and other related project management artifacts
- Serves as subject matter expert in routinely briefing key stakeholders on different aspects of assigned initiatives.
- Facilitate project planning and manage the execution of projects to plan
- Proposes recommendations and adjustments to project delivery and related solutions throughout the life of the initiative
- Communicates clearly with all levels of stakeholders to ensure deliverables are hit. Can articulate tradeoffs and impacts with the big picture in mind to enable strategic and tactical decision-making as well as mitigate risk
- Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed-on time, cost and quality parameters Proposes recommendations and process change through defined change management procedures
- Provide resourcing/financial estimates
- Lead vendors and/or contractors in the context of a project; Manage adherence of vendor commitments against projects deliverables and quality thereof
- Define and track project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, risk plan, and related project management artifacts
- Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action
- Ensuring that all team members understand the scope of the project as well as their responsibility/accountability with deliverables
- Compiling and maintaining project status reports and minutes of meetings
- Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science and Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline (MBA is preferred)
- 8 -10 years of technology project management including applications and infrastructure is required
- A proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; mobilize and motivate teams; set direction and approach; resolve conflict; deliver tough messages with grace; execute with limited information and ambiguity
- Ability to navigate a fast-paced, highly matrixed organization effectively
- Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects
- Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment (Agile & SAFe)
- Experienced or knowledge of multiple IT disciplines including software designs and architecture patterns, quality assurance methods, requirement gathering, business process engineering, etc.
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