IT Program Manager

IT PMO

Salary 135K (Max)

Location: New York, NY/Atlanta, GA

Essential Job Functions:

• Define project scope, goals, milestones, deliverables, detailed tasks, and resource requirements from concept creation through implementation.
• Ability to meet deadlines, manage time, and complete tasks; ability to get things done independently and collaboratively; ability to stay levelheaded and composed during busy periods.
• Creates and delivers weekly project status reports.
• Follow up with project owners and stakeholders on pending action items from weekly/monthly meetings.
• Analyses and establishes critical path and proactively work with stakeholders on all aspects specially remediation for off target activities.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of policies, plans, and procedures for executing integrity across a diverse portfolio of applications and technologies.
• Establish, schedule, coordinate, supervise, and document testing and corrective actions.
• Collaborates with Program Managers to assist in completing projects through mentoring the product lifecycle with the objective of delivering high quality results.
• Collaborate with the enterprise Vendor Services team on due diligence processes related to IT and establish risk parameters.
• Manage the maturity of our current Vendor Management capabilities and building out other core competencies to include performance and risk management.
• Perform risk assessments for all active IT 3rd party vendors to maintain a culture of compliance; periodically request and maintain due diligence documentation.
• Take ownership of Audit requirements requested by various internal teams including regulatory inquiries. From analysis to providing artifacts and documentation to meet these in a satisfactory level.

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of IT Project Management experience supporting or leading projects or key business initiatives in a technical environment.
• Five (5) years of relevant IT experience.
• Agile methodology (SCRUM) training and experience, especially hybrid Agile and experience with organizations that made a transition from water fall development to some level of agile use.
• Excellent relationship management, communication, and leadership/influence skills required.
• Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, professional environment.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project required.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Visio, Excel, and Project) required