UCI's Direct client is looking for Sr Project Manager with following qualification experience and long-term project in 123 Main St, White Plains, NY 10601, United States
Project Overview
The Project Manager role will support capital projects. Responsibilities will include governance and reporting and providing information for effective management decision-making. Both waterfall and agile project delivery approaches may be used.
Job Functions & Responsibilities:
• Primarily responsible for meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors, stakeholders, etc.
• Act as the bridge between the business and IT. Support the IT workstream and documents of projects (schedule, tasks, cost, changes/risks/issues) via IT PMO processes, procedures, and tools for assigned projects.
• Monitor the project schedule, budget, and deliverables.
• Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately.
• Utilize project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) to drive technical solution delivery.
• Support solution delivery processes, procedures, and toolsets (DevOps, configuration management, change management) to deliver stable, hardened, and scalable solutions.
• Support project financials - project budget and forecast
• Ensure the solution and the team follow IT ITIL/ ITSM standards, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security standards/policies, and other technical standards.
• Fulfil requirements for the IT PMO and IT Governance process including PPM Pro entries, project documentation standards, project reviews, gate promotions as defined in the IT PMO Playbook.
• Promote and maintain communication between project team members and stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Prepare correspondence, presentations and/or reports as required.
• Follow-up on correspondence and outstanding requests for resolution.
Skills:
• Understand the software development process and experienced in IT project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) and IT solution delivery processes, procedures, and toolsets (DevOps, configuration management).
• Strong and tested project management skills including Customer relationship management, Sponsor expectation management, Risk management, Change Management.
• Understand data governance, management & quality.
• Organized, good communicator, deadline driven, team builder, leader, planner, problem solver, and agile.
• Ability to promote and maintain a positive and inclusive work environment with project team members, co-workers, management, and vendors by behaving, collaborating, and communicating in a manner consistent with professional standards.
• Superior interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, and negotiating skills, to ensure open communication across project teams.
• Ability to handle broad-based, often complex, communication.
• Ability to diffuse emotionally charged situations and use them to constructively build greater shared commitment to end goals.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes, analyse decisions and actions for their support of the larger area's strategic direction; and work with senior management to resolve more complex problems.
• Outstanding record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology.
Education & Certifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or business discipline. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Project Management Certification is preferred.
• Minimum 7+ years of increasingly responsible experience, including experience successfully managing various projects/ programs
• Experience with enterprise transformational projects desired
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