Senior IT Project Manager
About The Position
Under direction, with broad latitude of independent actions or decisions, serve in a critical role of developing clear, straightforward project management plans that meet project objectives. This role involves conducting requirements gathering sessions, documenting requirements, and managing the product backlog. The position requires analyzing end-user workflows, surfacing unarticulated needs, and bringing end users' needs into project sponsor dialogue. The Senior IT Project Manager will consult and advise on the best means to fulfill a given solution need (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf, Cloud, Custom Build), shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives, and understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks, communicating tradeoffs to business partners. The role also involves translating conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements and technical specifications, documenting current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps, and identifying opportunities to streamline business processes. Additionally, the position supports business strategy articulation, ensures IT alignment to business capabilities, maps business processes, and identifies opportunities to redesign processes or technologies to improve efficiencies. The Senior IT Project Manager will manage interdependencies across projects and external solutions, own needs analysis with business sponsors, manage the solution design team, represent a project sponsor to provide feedback and guide an agile development team, monitor progress, and take corrective measures when necessary. The role also includes analyzing and managing project risk, concisely reporting issues and risks to management, and communicating and facilitating communication with the team, project sponsors, clients, external vendors, and other important stakeholders.
Requirements
- A baccalaureate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure; or
- Eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure;
- Education and/or experience which is equivalent to the above.
Responsibilities
- Develop clear, straightforward project management plans that meet project objectives.
- Conduct requirements gathering sessions, document requirements and manage product backlog.
- Provide usability insight to project design teams and help sponsors understand usability requirements.
- Analyze end-user workflows: surface unarticulated needs and bring end users' needs into project sponsor dialogue.
- Consult and advise on the best means to fulfill a given solution need (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf, Cloud, Custom Build).
- Shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
- Understand technical options, limitations, costs and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business partners and work with them to shape requirements accordingly.
- Translate conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements and technical specifications.
- Document current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps.
- Identify and assist in prioritizing opportunities to streamline business processes.
- Support business strategy articulation and ensure IT alignment to business capabilities.
- Map business processes and identify opportunities to redesign processes or technologies to improve efficiencies.
- Manage interdependencies across projects and external solutions to minimize post implementation fixes.
- Manage needs analysis/requirements primarily for data intensive projects like business intelligence or analytics.
- Own needs analysis with business sponsors and manage the solution design team.
- Represent a project sponsor to provide feedback and guide an agile development team.
- Monitor progress and effectively take corrective measures when necessary.
- Analyze and manage project risk; concisely report issues and risks to management.
- Communicate and facilitate communication with the team, project sponsors, clients, external vendors and other important stakeholders.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
