Information Technology Project Manager IV

APS • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you lead high-impact technology projects that help keep APS systems reliable, innovative, and ready for the future. By guiding complex, cross-functional initiatives from start to finish, you ensure critical solutions are delivered on time and within budget—supporting the safe, efficient delivery of power to Arizona communities. Your leadership helps reduce risk, enable innovation, and improve how APS serves its customers every day.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing large, complex IT projects with significant scope, budget, or risk
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to manage competing priorities, compressed timelines, and evolving project demands
• Skilled in coordinating with vendors and overseeing contractual deliverables
• Strategic thinker who can develop comprehensive execution plans and drive results
• Clear communicator who builds trust and alignment across teams
• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology or related field
• Twelve (12) years of prior relevant experience managing large scale IT projects in the area of software applications, IT infrastructure or cybersecurity or equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.
• Working project management knowledge and experience developing or updating project plans for information technology projects (including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering business results through IT Deployment, excellent communication, negotiation and leadership skills
• Experience managing large, complex, high impact projects.
• Extensive understanding of project management processes, principles and methodologies
• Ability to build strong Client/Customer relationships
• Strong critical thinking and creativity skills along with the ability to exercise sound judgment by making decisions based on accurate and timely analyses
• Ability understand needs and values of stakeholders and team members and apply that understanding to motivate behaviors and results
• Experience in managing multi-discipline teams and technical functions
• Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex IT projects from planning through execution, ensuring clear direction, alignment, and results
• Partner with cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to drive progress and solve challenges
• Develop and maintain execution plans that balance scope, schedule, cost, and risk
• Oversee project teams (including other Project Managers) to deliver high-quality outcomes
• Manage multi-year or fast-paced initiatives that involve innovative or high-risk technologies
• Communicate updates, risks, and outcomes to leadership and key partners
• Under limited supervision, lead multiple and diverse departments and disciplines to ensure development of highly complex scale project plans, effective resource planning, project estimates, project organization and roles and responsibilities
• Present comprehensive project plans to project sponsors and management. Obtains all necessary stakeholder support and sponsor and executive approvals.
• Manage project dependencies, critical path, and monitor and update risk mitigation and contingency plans as necessary
• Develops project plan documentation, provides status reports, negotiates change orders and adjusts schedules as needed.
• Develop and conduct formal presentations for assigned projects as required
• Manage activities within the project team or impacted area/s to ensure project objectives, budget, quality standards and scheduling requirements are met.
• Ensures project deliverables and overall results meet or exceed sponsor and stakeholder expectations
• Regularly coaches, mentors, motivates and supervises project team members and contractors and provide performance assessment input as needed, coordinate vendor resources, identify and resolve issues and conflicts within project team
• Participates in project evaluation to ensure project objectives were met
• Acts as a mentor to less experienced Project managers

Benefits

• Equal opportunity in all phases of the employment process
• Compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations
• Drug and alcohol testing
• Employees are expected to reside in Arizona (or New Mexico for Four Corners-based employees).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior