Job Title:
Senior Project Manager IT
Infosec CISSP, engineering background, certificates around cloud
Have had true professional life cycle of project management
Communication Skills
MUST have an active PMP certification
cyber technologies, data loss prevention, application vulnerability management, OT
Cybersecurity Framework and Key Focus areas:
- Understanding of NIST based frameworks and how they are applied to secure information (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover)
- Identify: Managing cybersecurity risks to systems, assets, data, and business capabilities
- Protect: Implementing safeguards to ensure data, information and systems are protected and secure
- Detect and Respond: Detection technology and response procedures are implemented and regularly tested to ensure timely response to cybersecurity incidents
- Recover: Develop and implement the appropriate activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity event
Overview
The IT Delivery job is accountable for the successful end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, programs, and portfolios. The job leads projects, programs, portfolios or leads an Agile ART or several agile teams, through the systems development life cycle from planning through hyper care, working in close partnership with IT and business leaders including executive sponsors. The work also includes leading, collaboration, coaching team members and influencing others outside their direct team to ensure the success of initiatives.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Engage and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
- Continuously monitor costs and implement improvements to drive down the cost to plan and deliver
- Drive process improvements in project delivery working in collaboration with key stakeholders in support of business objectives
- Ensure key stakeholders can properly collect, prioritize, plan for, and execute projects
- Execute required change management activities including training and communications
- Leverage best practices, implement new processes, procedures, and controls to improve delivery capabilities overall
- In collaboration with key stakeholders, forecast financial and resource needs to meet established objectives for delivery
- Keep an eye to latest trends and best practices within the Portfolio and Project management space
- Applies significant knowledge of industry trends, developments, and capabilities to address and improve business capabilities
- Ensures that solutions and services deliver at or above expected business value
- Plan and run test plans
- Define test metrics and monitor testing to ensure testing is completed per project schedule
- Create work break down structures to support project delivery and track plan
- Develop level of efforts by Develops and recommends changes to policies and procedures
- Build strong teams
- Provide strong leadership over a diverse team of individuals including providing coaching and guidance to team members
- Develop communications, training strategies and execute against them
- Create and maintain project budgets
- Identify, analyze, track, and manage to closure project risks and issues
- Manage and organize project teams to support project needs
- Manage projects to successfully meet business requirements and outcomes
- working with resource managers as input to finalize project plans
- Use level of efforts to assist in developing project budgets
- Manage project progress and create effective status reports
- Manage all required project documentation per SGWS PPMO & RDM standards
- Define resource plan and manage throughout project life cycle
- Time Management:
- Define activity
- Sequence activity
- Estimate the duration of activity
- Develop a schedule
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree - in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years leading Information Security or relevant work experience to include cloud
- Size of project is $500K -$1M, or up to 5 small projects at a time, teams less/25 people or less
- Critical thinker
- Results-oriented
- Strong business acumen
- Influencer
- Facilitator
- Problem solver
- Budget and risk management
- Good communicator
- Highly collaborative
- Process Oriented
- Coach
- Led systems development methodology and infrastructure project delivery
- Executive presence
- Ability to lead a team environment with Agile delivery values
- Experience managing multiple medium to complex projects across multiple functions including planning, analysis, design, development, implementation, and satisfaction of project requirements
- Experience managing and mentoring project management staff including providing stretch opportunities and coaching to develop team and deliver results
- Proven experience successfully managing business and technical resources under an integrated project plan to ensure the alignment of resources
- Ability to take ownership for managing all aspects of project management from discovery through delivery implementation
- Experience presenting, escalating, and providing solutions to senior leadership
- Experience managing a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties. Proven record of focusing on building trusted relationship with those responsible for execution
- Ability to quickly assess projects at the onset for areas of risk, identify gaps and recommend areas for improvement
- Experience in change management related aspects of project execution and ability to incorporate change considerations in planning / execution of projects
Preferred Qualifications
Project Management (PMI) or Agile Certification
Specialized Skills and Technologies
- Experience in managing large and complex technical projects
- Understanding of fundamentals of IT Architecture & Systems to deliver solutions is a must
- Experience in integrating multiple systems (logic and data) across the enterprise is required
- Functional knowledge and experience in implementing large and complex solutions either related to software, data or Infrastructure projects is required
- Experience with Microsoft Office tools is required
- Experience using Planview Ability to create and follow work and data flow charts is required
- Need to understand Software Development Life Cycle and various delivery methodologies like Waterfall and Agile
Physical Demands
Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or adding machine
Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs