Company Description
AVANT ASSOCIATES is dedicated to helping businesses grow by matching the right talent to their staffing and consulting needs while building rewarding careers for professionals. We uphold a philosophy of "Ethics First" in all our operations and recruit nationwide for executive, management, and professional roles across various industries.
Overview:
- This is a long term contract Hybrid role for a Senior Project Manager (Agile/Scrum Master) in Southern California.
The Senior Project Manager leads, drives, and delivers large highly cross-functional technology programs. The role partners with Engineering/Development, Technical Operations, Product Management, and business stakeholders developing project plans, roadmaps, and executing software solutions. The PM manages every aspect of the project from product to solution delivery while communicating progress at every level of the organization.
Essential Functions:
- Manages the cross-functional software projects from product/technology roadmap to product and solution delivery, covering a range of areas including software development and testing, operations, change management, human resources, hardware capacity requirements, co-innovation with internal and external partners, vendors, and solution/product delivery
- Identifies projects within the program, prioritizes, defines scope, and defines deliverables that support business goals and strategic objectives
- Defines, develops detailed projects and drives the project schedule ensuring on-time delivery for the entire program
- Understands identifies and manages both technical and non-technical project dependencies and critical paths within the project
- Manages changes in the project and program scope, identifies, communicates, and resolves potential risks/conflicts, and creates mitigation plans
- Develops and delivers project updates, proposals, and presentations to executives and key project stakeholders
- Creates project plans and timelines and communicates overall project status to the broader teams
- Executes best practices and governance; defines new or improves existing processes and tools for project execution
- Ensures that each team understands the overall project objectives and timeline, and how their deliverables impact the overall program
- Manages cross functional teams to deliver critical business needs
- Establishes and implements processes which foster team collaboration at the organizational level
- Expert Knowledge in preparing Large, complex UAT and Business implementation Plans
- Interacts with management and stakeholders often require excellent communication skills
- Works collaboratively with cross-functional peers and senior leaders/stakeholders to drive resolution of project issues
- Understands interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
- Participates in and contributes to the continuous improvement and evolution of processes, methodologies, and tools
Required Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Adaptable, collaborative, solution minded and results-driven to successfully drive projects and programs to completion during times of change
- Strong Knowledge of IT Budget Management, including Capex and Opex Projects
- Ability to promote cooperation and trust with team members, senior leadership, and other stakeholders
- Ability to effectively prioritize shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities promptly and efficiently
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Adept at conducting research into program and project issues
- Ability to learn, understand, and apply new technologies
- Proven organization and delegation skills with ability to drive execution of the product roadmap, and own the schedule with a track record of delivering projects on time
- 5-8+ years of experience as project/program manager driving software development projects/programs, including full software development lifecycle from product requirements through implementation to product release and post release support.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Working knowledge and fluency with both JIRA, Confluence, Project Management tools are required
- Knowledge of Azure Firewall, DDoS protection, Network Security Group (NSG)
- Broad technical knowledge of internet products and technologies, and latest cloud offerings
- Technical background in enterprise applications, software, and services
- Experience in compliance remediation
- Understanding of foundational cloud concepts such as High Availability (HA), Scalability, Fault Tolerance (FT), Disaster Recovery, scalability, and the difference between CapEx and OpEx
- Solid knowledge of Azure Infrastructure - Regions, Availability Zones, Resource Groups, Azure Resource Manager, and Azure architectural components
- Understanding of Azure purchasing procedures, services/products, and pricing
You might also have –
- SAFe Agilist certification in addition to ScrumMaster a plus.
- Expert Admin JIRA user.
- Basic proficiency with standard development software (do not need to be able to code, but a general understanding of what each can do, etc.)
Job Types: Full-time, Long term Contract 1099 or C2C
Preferred Education & Experience:
- Experience using JIRA Portfolio
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- PMP Certification (PMI)
- Certification in Microsoft 365 Fundamentals MS-900
- Microsoft 365 Security Administrator Associate
- Working knowledge and experience with agile methodology
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Work authorization:
- United States (Required) Not providing Sponsorship for this job
Contract Length:
Work Location:
- S. California, Orange County