IT Senior Project Manager (Hybrid)

Eversource Energy•Westwood, MA

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

Eversource is seeking an IT Senior Project Manager to oversee and ensure the success of Information Technology and related Business projects. This role involves managing the budget, schedule, and delivery of initiatives in compliance with the standards of the PMO/Next Generation Delivery Organization. The primary focus is on leading program and train-level execution, building teams, removing impediments, and driving continuous improvement. Responsibilities include managing all aspects of team delivery, facilitating the development and execution of delivery plans, preparing plans and budgets for predictable delivery, reporting program status to stakeholders and governance committees, maintaining forecasts, and utilizing metrics to achieve desired results. The role also involves coaching Scrum Masters to be accountable delivery managers and utilizing Agile delivery methodologies like Scrum and Kanban for large projects and programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Minimum of 10 years of experience
Five (5+) years for large Project Management experience
Five (5+) years of Agile delivery experience.
Three (3+) years of Release Train Engineer experience
Prior Scrum Master or Product Owner experience
IT Agile PM/Release Train Engineers must possess an Agile certification (as prescribed by the PMO/Next Generation Delivery Organization). These may include SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Agile Release Train Engineer, or Certified Scrum Master.
Must be available to work emergency storm assignment as required.
Must be available to travel between MA/CT/NH as necessary.

Nice To Haves

PMP Certified is preferred

Responsibilities

Manages a significant complex enterprise level program, or multiple projects concurrently
Advocates and supports the policies, processes, and practices of the Program Management Office (PMO)/Next Generation Delivery Organization.
Develops and communicates plans to deliver major IT initiatives to the IT and business communities; devises the summary and detailed project plans including tasks and interdependencies, milestones, people required including skill levels, and other resource and support requirements.
Coaches leaders, teams, and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
Responsible for Agile Release Train metric reporting.
Tracks the execution of features and stories; Escalate and track impediments.
Serves as the IT point of contact and the primary interface on initiatives where the business / user community has appointed a project or program manager.
Outlines the responsibilities of different principals / parties including customers, customer and IT management, team members, IT support groups, vendors, consultants, and affected or impacted groups.
Coordinates preparation of statements of work and specifications, estimation of product / service costs and pricing, and negotiation and administration of contracts.
Assists with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and story estimation by teams and across the Agile Release Train.
Develops and oversees Agile scope management processes and customer acceptance throughout the delivery cycle.
Facilitates the conduct of Agile Release Train ceremonies such as Scrum of Scrums and Big-Room / Program Increment Planning.
Negotiates IT’s interests and manages external vendor, contractor and material contracts.
Monitors budget and resource levels and advises principals as to developing trends and prepares periodic variance projections.
Ensures that dependencies outside the Team are understood and proactively managed.
Ensures that risks and issues between teams and with the rest of the organization are understood and managed against expectations.
Ensures that all training and transition management activities are in place for the customer base, including coordinating process redesign, new procedures, and acceptance of new technologies and/or capabilities into daily use within the user community (done in conjunction with a business / user program manager if one has been appointed).
Leads the Project Team/Agile Release Train to identify and implement continuous process improvements.
Identifies and pursues opportunities to improve Team execution; recommends enhancements related to new and/or existing workflows.
Ensures communications, collaboration and coordination across teams, business partners, other areas of IT.
Develops and implements alternatives and/or solutions to mitigate problems, issues, conflicts, etc.
Provides thought leadership and expertise across the program and with internal and external Agile Release Train partners in achieving their commitments through issue, risk and dependency management.