Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Join our team as a Senior Project Manager within the Infrastructure Platform services at our departmental PMO, overseeing intricate mainframe migration technology projects in our Information Technology division. You'll employ top-tier methodologies, tools, and processes to guide projects, ensuring they remain within budget and schedule, and seamlessly transition to full hardware and software implementation. These senior-level programs involve collaboration with multiple Amtrak departments, external vendors, and subcontractors, making this role pivotal in orchestrating successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate the planning, execution, and monitoring of the TPF mainframe migration project, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and financial plans.
• Drive communication and collaboration among internal and external stakeholders, including development, data center, network, security teams, and vendors.
• Apply best practices and methodologies in TPF mainframe development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and employ DevOps principles and tools.
• Proactively identify and address risks and issues related to performance, availability, and reliability of the TPF mainframe system during migration.
• Direct technical leads, project team members, and external consultants/contractors.

Your Role:

• Develop and maintain essential project documentation, including project charters, management plans, requirements, design documents, and implementation plans.
• Generate weekly program status reports and conduct necessary project meetings to ensure alignment.
• Manage project schedules using MS Enterprise Project Management and MS Project Professional 2010, reporting schedule and budget variances.
• Establish and maintain SharePoint project sites within the EPM system.
• Ensure quality and accuracy in project schedules, baselines, and estimates, reporting variances.
• Report on risks, ongoing issues, changes, and project activities regularly.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in project management, Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum seven years of hands-on Program and Project management experience using formal methodologies.
• Substantial experience in technology management, analysis, and administration.
• Strong stakeholder interaction skills with an ability to protect departmental interests.
• Proficiency in MS Project Office Professional, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Experience with project management tools like MS Project Server (EPM), Primavera, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four years' experience with project management tools like Microsoft Project Server (EPM).
• PMP Certification.