Senior IT Project/Program Manager

Senior IT Project/Program Manager

Requirements: What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:

 

Project Management:

  • 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.

  • Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects (must have)

  • Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.

  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of processes and plans (must have)

  • Experience managing project life cycles including assigning resources and maintaining the project backlogs and in-progress/completed tasks with collaboration tools like: Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, KanBan, Workamajig, etc.

  • Experience in validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.

  • Experience in formulating and determining business and technical requirements, business problems, business objectives, product visions, goals and outcomes.

  • Demonstrated ability to direct, collaborate and inform policy, IT, legal, communication and privacy teams.

 

Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills:

  • Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and scalable minimum viable products. (must have)

  • Experience with I&IT technology site deployment/rollout.

  • Experience leading, facilitating and initiating large-scale technology infrastructure procurements.

  • Experience in defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering the initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables as needed.

  • Experience with underlying technologies and processes for the delivery of an end-to-end electronic solution.

  • Experience in leading QA activities and processes

  • Experience with Azure Cloud setup and operations

  • Experience with Azure Cloud Data services, including Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Unity Catalogue, SQL Warehouse

  • Experience with AI, LLM and related technologies

 

Documentation Skills:

  • Experience creating privacy, financial, communication and IT documentation including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, Requests for Service and Requests for Information.

 

Public Sector Experience:

  • Experience with Public Sector ITIL process including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.

  • Experience with OPS business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules. (must have)

  • Knowledge of Government network and desktop infrastructure procurement, implementation and support models.

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