IT Senior Project Manager

• Manages a significant complex enterprise level program, or multiple projects concurrently
• Advocate and support the policies, processes, and practices of the Program Management Office (PMO)/Next Generation Delivery Organization
• Develops and communicates plans to deliver major IT initiatives to the IT and business communities
• Coach leaders, teams, and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
• Responsible for Agile Release Train metric reporting
• Track the execution of features and stories
• Escalate and track impediments
• Serves as the IT point of contact and the primary interface on initiatives where the business/user community has appointed a project or program manager
• Outlines the responsibilities of different principals/parties including customers, customer and IT management, team members, IT support groups, vendors, consultants, and affected or impacted groups
• Coordinate preparation of statements of work and specifications, estimation of product/service costs and pricing, and negotiation and administration of contracts
• Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and story estimation by teams and across the Agile Release Train
• Develops and oversee Agile scope management processes and customer acceptance throughout the delivery cycle
• Facilitates the conduct of Agile Release Train ceremonies such as Scrum of Scrums and Big-Room/Program Increment Planning
• Negotiates IT's interests and manages external vendor, contractor and material contracts
• Monitor budget and resource levels and advise principals as to developing trends and prepare periodic variance projections
• Ensure that dependencies outside the Team are understood and proactively managed
• Ensure that risks and issues between teams and with the rest of the organization are understood and managed against expectations
• Ensure that all training and transition management activities are in place for the customer base, including coordinating process redesign, new procedures, and acceptance of new technologies and/or capabilities into daily use within the user community
• Lead the Project Team/Agile Release Train to identify and implement continuous process improvements
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve Team execution
• recommend enhancements related to new and/or existing workflows
• Ensure communications, collaboration and coordination across teams, business partners, other areas of IT
• Develop and implement alternatives and/or solutions to mitigate problems, issues, conflicts, etc.
• Provide thought leadership and expertise across the program and with internal and external Agile Release Train partners in achieving their commitments through issue, risk and dependency management

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 10 years of experience
• Five (5+) years for large Project Management experience
• Five (5+) years of Agile delivery experience
• Three (3+) years of Release Train Engineer experience
• Prior Scrum Master or Product Owner experience
• IT Agile PM/Release Train Engineers must possess an Agile certification (as prescribed by the PMO/Next Generation Delivery Organization). These may include SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Agile Release Train Engineer, or Certified Scrum Master
• PMP Certified is preferred

PMP Certified

• competitive total rewards program
• potential incentive
• Emergency Restoration assignment
• storm assignment
• hybrid schedule with work-life balance