IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager

Location: Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 Duration: 18 Months Monday - Thursday onsite; Friday remote (subject to change).

Job Description:

• Drives execution and delivery of technical projects through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
• Works with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on strategically prioritized projects and improve efficiency.
• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
• Maintain monthly forecast submissions, including adjustments to resource allocations, vendor payment schedules, and forecasts for partner teams
• Conduct regular program status meetings with all partners, ensuring needs and requirements are met
• Build program reports and dashboards for program management, sponsors, and partners
• Monitors & adjusts program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring program is progressing to meet business goals
• Act as a primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors, and other key functional delivery teams
• Lead project delivery by coordinating cross functional dependencies, resolving blockers, and managing RAID to ensure milestones stay on track
• Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation
• Ensure proper project closure including lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting
• Own Jira and Confluence administration, governance, and executive reporting, ensuring consistent Agile processes, traceability, and delivery visibility
• Drive roadmap planning, dependency mapping, and infrastructure migration coordination using Advanced Roadmaps and aligned tracking artifacts
• Support cross functional teams through training, coaching, and program level coordination across Scrum teams and vendors
• Support Jira Cloud migration readiness, including cleanup, process alignment, and adoption support

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions
• Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development
• Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping
• Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery
• Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)
• Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall
• Experience and knowledge of AI emerging technologies, nomenclature and strategies
• Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of a project
• Experience managing large project budgets
• Experience with tools such as: Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet, MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira, Tableau, Claude, and Power BI

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs

Education: Bachelor's Degree or relevant years of experience (Minimum of 5 years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions)