Senior IT Project Manager

Description

• Mentor and coach project managers, fostering professional growth and best practices.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues across projects.
• Collaborate with DevSecOps to design, implement, and maintain release pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Identify and collaborate with Vendor relationship owners to ensure that Vendors can meet project needs and timeline
• Coordinate and oversee software releases across multiple projects, ensuring readiness and quality.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business sponsors, stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Establish vendor coordination strategies for Delivery, UAT, Support Handoff, and other critical phases, including escalation frameworks.
• Assist in PM team development and capability advancement strategies.
• Collaborate with Resource Managers to allocate resources and resolve conflicts.
• Monitor and provide oversite of project resources from a Resourced vs Estimated vs Actual use perspective to ensure cost containment and delivery timeframes are met.
• Lead initiatives for environment and architecture transitions (e.g., UDE migration), ensuring governance and risk mitigation.
• Lead Project review meetings and facilitate JAD sessions within the project group and business leadership groups
• Deliver executive-level reporting and presentations on project status and outcomes.
• Lead change management efforts, ensuring smooth transitions and stakeholder buy-in.
• Implement transparency practices, including dashboards and reporting frameworks.
• Serve as primary escalation point for project risks and issues.
• Lead high-impact projects from Discovery through Closure, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Partner with Technical Training to ensure end-user training needs are identified and addressed for all project deliverables.
• Maintain hygiene within Project Management and Portfolio Management platforms
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and governance standards.
• Accountable for meeting PM Team KPI targets in project data hygiene, process compliance, stakeholder communication, proactive forecasting, and responsible AI adoption, as defined in the PM Team Scorecard.
• Lead and facilitate PI Planning sessions to align teams, define objectives, and ensure delivery commitments across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
• Drive CICD release planning strategies and automation integration across projects and teams.
• Plan and execute handoff of support responsibilities to Application Support after releases.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, standardizing processes and tools.
• Oversee project planning, resource management, and execution for multiple concurrent projects.

Requirements

• Advanced project management certifications preferred (A-CSM, PSM-II/III, CSP, or PMI-PMP).
• Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills with experience in executive stakeholder engagement.
• 5+ years of IT project management experience, including leadership of complex, cross-functional projects.
• Proficiency in tooling migration planning, risk mitigation, and integration strategies.
• Expertise in process improvement, governance compliance, and transparency practices (dashboards, reporting frameworks).
• Proven experience with CICD release planning, DevSecOps collaboration, and environment transition oversight.
• Strong vendor engagement and escalation management especially for Team Alignment, UAT, & Delivery phases
• Demonstrated success in vendor coordination, risk management, and change management.
• Strategic thinking with ability to align projects to organizational goals and manage complex dependencies.
• Skilled in mentoring and coaching project managers, fostering team development and certification planning.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced expertise in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, including portfolio-level planning and governance.
• Deep understanding of CICD release strategies, automation integration, and DevSecOps collaboration.
• Ability to mentor and develop project management talent and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to lead environment and architecture transition initiatives at an enterprise scale.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and ability to deliver executive-level reporting.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off policy and paid holidays
• Incentive bonus plan
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance plans with flexible spending account option
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with match
• Competitive pay
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance