IT Project Manager, Principal
About The Position
The Billing Modernization team, resides within the Customer Systems & Solutions (CSS) group and is part of the Product & Enterprise Platforms group that supports IT projects, operations, risks & compliance. This team is in the midst of a large customer transformation journey with a main emphasis of modernizing and re-architecting our Billing and rates platforms. Position Summary: Leads a team that develops new applications, designs and installs new IT technical architecture and infrastructure systems, or enhances existing systems. Assembles the project team and utilizes the provided cost and scheduling tools to define the scope, budget, and resource needs, and controlling other project variables. Functions as a liaison between IT and the Business Client. Acts as the go-to person that represents the entire project from the planning through to the deployment stage.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
- 10 years experience in project management, IT-Information Technology
- PMP-Project Management Professional certification
- Experience as Project Manager, high complexity
- Experience in IT-Information Technology professional service agreements
Nice To Haves
- Graduate Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
- Leadership experience, job-related, 5 years
- Experience in PMO-Program Management Office development
Responsibilities
- Accurately and consistently forecasting project resource, material and contract costs within a standard PG&E tool(s)
- Assessing project performance and implementing changes as necessary to ensure the projects remains within specified cost, schedule, scope and quality objectives
- Clearly defining and communicating roles, responsibilities and expectations for all members of the project team
- Collaborates with others to develop goals that will achieve company strategy.
- Communicating individual project roles and expectations
- Communicating status of all projects to stakeholders and management
- Completion of project artifact audits on time
- Conducting project kick-off meetings
- Conducting site visits as necessary
- Coordinating any required contract work within defined PG&E policy
- Developing and maintaining a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors and key clients
- Developing and Maintaining up-to-date detailed project schedules and work plans
- Developing metrics, procedures, objectives and methods to assess project progress while using established standards and quality objectives
- Driving all project related tasks to completion
- Ensuring all project team members have the tools and training necessary to perform effectively
- Exercising independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance with moderate scope and complexity
- Functioning in a process oriented environment
- Gathering, defining and documenting project requirements
- Independently planning all associated work to meet project goals
- Independently plans work to meet broad objectives.
- May lead a team of 1 – 2 employees
- Monitoring critical project milestones, and identifying ways to resolve schedule issues
- Obtaining and defining staffing requirements and forming project teams
- Preparing all project documentation for closure, storage, and possible auditing activities, ensuring technical accuracy
- Provides creative and innovative approaches to meet work plan objectives.
- Providing direction and leadership to project management analysts and schedulers
- Recording, tracking and communicating issues, risks, changes, and status reports within a PG&E standard tool
- Resolving problems of project specific scope within procedural guidelines
- Responsible for leading a group of Project Managers on a particular task; this leadership role will include mentoring, training, direction and oversight of their assigned responsibilities.
- Responsible for leading one or more projects typically between $1,000,000 - $50,000,000
- Seeks guidance only on critical and politically sensitive issues.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
