Senior Project Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for managing the execution and timely delivery of engagements from start to finish.
• Manage the entire Project Management Life Cycle, including resources, budgets, and project schedules.
• Be held accountable for developing a consolidated view of the project deliverables, milestones, roadmaps, and iterations/sprints/schedules to meet on-time deliveries within the scope and budget, ensuring visibility and the highest client satisfaction.
• Communicate effectively, including providing direction and feedback to relevant stakeholders, managing expectations and conflicts or obstacles, and addressing unexpected difficulties.
• Identify, track, and resolve project risks, issues, and dependencies using best-practice problem-solving techniques.
• Define and employ effective escalation paths and communicate with relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with project stakeholders from all levels, including business relationship meetings and technical team meetings to determine progress and facilitate resolution to questions or challenges.
• Leverage traditional project management and Agile practices to deliver projects, including backlog/requirements refinement, sprints/iteration planning and execution, clarifying a definition-of-done, team communication, progress visualization, retrospectives, and demos.
• Track and provide weekly budget and status reporting for project engagements.
• Manage multiple projects concurrently at various levels of maturity.

Requirements

• Strong verbal/oral/written communication skills.
• Ability to clearly understand the overall vision, scale, scope, expected outcomes, business impact, and milestones of their engagements.
• Proven project leadership skills, ability to quickly organize teams towards a project goal with little to no supervision.
• Proficiency with tools including Azure DevOps, Jira, and GitHub.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and change by applying proven project management skills.
• Ability to build trust and create relationships with internal teams and with external stakeholders through interpersonal skills like mentoring and coaching.
• Proficient in the technical skills of an Agile Project Manager, including strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with a focus on details.
• 10+ years' experience working as a full-lifecycle project manager using modern Agile Project Management methodologies.
• 5+ years' experience leading Scrum events and backlog refinement sessions.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience managing business or technical project budgets, risks, and issues.
• 5+ years of experience leading and managing projects within consulting (professional and managed services projects).
• Experience in leading cloud transformation projects using Azure or AWS (Datacenter Migration, Azure DevOps, App Modernization, etc.)

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud transformation projects using Azure or AWS.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience and skills.
• Generous 401(k) plan with 100% company match up to 4%.
• Performance-based compensation including bonus potential.
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Company-paid life, AD&D, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) including three weeks of vacation and personal leave.
• 11 paid holidays annually.
• Paid community service leave.
• Employee recognition and reward program.
• Full-time position in the United States with remote or office work options.