Program Manager - Mast

AHU Technologies•Washington, DC

30d•Hybrid

About The Position

The client seeks a Program Manager - Mast. This is a contract position with options for w2, 1099, or C2C employment. The Program Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of large and complex programs/projects through all phases of the Project Management Lifecycle, including initiation, planning, iterative development, continuous testing, execution, control, and closeout. The role also serves as the primary technical point of contact to the customer, collaborating across multiple task areas such as infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS, or on-premise), applications, QA, change management, and customer service support.

Requirements

Exp. managing and implementing concurrent separate initiatives of varying size. Required 12 Years
Min. of 4 individual multi-year project implementation experiences & previous success leading initiatives within an agile methodology environment. Required
Demonstrates extensive knowledge and success as a team leader. Required
Proficiency in MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Atlassian Jira/Confluence. Required
Bachelor’s degree in CompSci, Business, Finance or another related field. Required
PMP or PMI Agile Certification Practitioner (PMIACP) or other Agile/ScrumMaster certification. Required

Responsibilities

Manage relationships with stakeholders, managers, and key software and services vendors for the delivery of projects and programs.
Provide thought leadership and expertise for Software and/or Hardware system implementations, IT applications, business and systems processes.
Manage the implementation of projects daily -- including defining deliverables as well as creating and monitoring sprints, project schedules and backlogs.
Assist with internal communications and resource management as needed.
Align project objectives with stakeholders' objectives.
Lead teams through all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using appropriate waterfall and agile methodologies and processes.
Create project plans, resource plans, program metrics, communication plans and develop analytics supporting delivery of life cycle activities.
Develop communication plans to ensure business and executive stakeholders are well informed and are provided with accurate information for status of managed initiatives and to support decision making.
Identify project and resource dependencies and collaboratively work with team members to ensure the project schedule is followed.
Effectively communicate project status, actions, decisions, risks, issues and schedule for the customer's project portfolio.
Prepare executive steering committee communications as needed.
Direct, motivate and collaborate with project team members to ensure the team is provided with clear and accurate information in a timely manner that will enable them to complete assigned tasks within set times, and to deliver to top performance.