Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Seeking a Senior Project Manager with extensive experience leading large-scale, cross-functional IT programs across Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies. Proven expertise in managing end-to-end project delivery, vendor and stakeholder management, SDLC, budget, risk, resource planning, and business/technical requirements gathering. Strong analytical, organizational, and leadership abilities with experience presenting to executive leadership and ensuring governance, compliance, and seamless transition to operations.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Coordinate vendors and consultants, and client IT and business staff
• Perform standard project management tasks such as tracking budget and expenditures, developing and tracking the schedule, identifying and mitigating risks, managing vendors, and supervising team member work
• Develop and present presentations to senior leadership
• Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities
• Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management
• Collaborate with external (vendor / Suppliers) and internal technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans
• Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including, execution of procurements, definition of project plans, resource allocation, management of project risks, scope, and schedule, delivery of value, and well-ordered transitions to operations
• Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics
• Adhere to client project management practices and governance requirements
• Facilitates resolution of technical and non-technical risks and issues
• Leads and coordinates the scoping, technical requirements gathering, estimating and planning for single or multiple work-streams

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models
• Ability to understand technology at the level to help represent project team in multiple forums
• Strong experience leading business & IT resources thru the discovery/documentation of business and technical requirements in request for solution proposals
• Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices
• Active PMP Cert (from PMI)
• Ability to run scrum, kanban or waterfall project management best practices
• Experience in leading large program with multiple worksterams
• Experience in working vendor and implementing vendor solutions

Preferred Skills:

• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects
• Experience with Data Modernization & Enterprise Data Warehouse