Program Manager - Master

Program Manager - MasterLocation: Washington, DC/ HybridEmployment type: Contract w2/1099/C2CMinimum Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, related field, or equivalent experience.Required Experience: 12 yearsInterviews: Webcam OnlyThe client is looking for a Program Manager - Master. Employment type: Contract w2/1099/C2CProject Manager is responsible for successful delivery of large and complex programs/projects through all phases of the Project Management Lifecycle, which includes initiation, planning, iterative development, continuous testing, execution, control & closeout of projects. The Project Manager will also be the primary technical point of contact to the customer and will be responsible for collaborating across multiple task areas, including infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS or on-premise), applications, QA, change management, and customer service support.Responsibilities:Manage relationships with stakeholders, managers, and key software and services vendors for the delivery of projects and programs.Provide thought leadership and expertise for Software and/or Hardware system implementations, IT applications, business and systems processes.Manage the implementation of projects daily -- including defining deliverables as well as creating and monitoring sprints, project schedules and backlogs.Assist with internal communications and resource management as needed.Align project objectives with stakeholders' objectives.Will lead teams through all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using appropriate waterfall and agile methodologies and processes.Create project plans, resource plans, program metrics, communication plans and develop analytics supporting delivery of life cycle activities.Develop communication plans to ensure business and executive stakeholders are well informed and are provided with accurate information for status of managed initiatives and to support decision making.Identify project and resource dependencies and collaboratively work with team members to ensure the project schedule is followed.Skills:Exp. managing and implementing concurrent separate initiatives of varying size.Min. of 4 individual multi-year project implementation experiences & previous success leading initiatives within an agile methodology environment.Demonstrates extensive knowledge and success as a team leader.Proficiency in MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Atlassian Jira/Confluence.Bachelor's degree in CompSci, Business, Finance or other related field.PMP or PMI Agile Certification Practitioner (PMIACP) or other Agile/ScrumMaster certification.Required: Flexible work from home options available.Compensation: $78.00 - $87.00 per hour