Lead Technical Program/Project Manager

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Job description

Title: Lead Technical Program/Project Manager

Location: Bay Lake FL 32830

Duration: 9 Months Contract

Description/Comment:

The Lead Technical Program/Project Manager will work closely with cross-discipline technology teams, leadership and business partners to understand technical and business direction, milestones and budget, as well as provide thought leadership to project management team.

Preferred:

• Technical project management experience in workforce management

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

• Agile Certifications (CSM; ACP; CSPO; SAFe; LeSS)

Required:

• Minimum 7 years of Program/Project management experience (such as: Project Lead, SCRUM Master, Agile Coach) working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions

• Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery

• Ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects

• Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail

• Experience with Agile Application Lifecycle Management and development tools like JIRA, Confluence Wiki

• Understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)

• Experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall

• Experience with budget tracking and complex cost-benefit analysis

• Experience managing and prioritizing projects within the program and working seamlessly with various teams and stakeholders in a matrix organization

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Basic Qualifications

• Undertakes program planning

• Identifies, plans, and coordinates a set of related projects within a program, to manage their interdependencies in support of specific business strategies

• Plans the delivery of the overall program and its activities in accordance with the mission and the goals of the organization

• Develops and implements long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of the program

• Participates in the annual budgeting and operating plan to support the program

• Manages execution of program

• Coordinates and facilitates delivery of program objectives

• Ensures timely completion of tasks, maintaining program schedule and target dates

• Successfully assesses program and project risks and formulates mitigation plans, successfully develops and updates project budgets as required, and delivers successful programs and projects in a timely and cost-efficient manner as shown by project statistics

• Leads and directs high-priority matrix projects, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration and interaction with project sponsors and teams

• Conducts program meetings at leadership and/or executive director levels

• Develops and manages a project change control process as needed to ensure project team operates within the scope of change approval process

• Provides input and feedback to program team members

• Identifies and evaluates the risks associated with program activities and takes appropriate action to mitigate the risks

• Continually reviews available resources to maintain first-hand knowledge of where resources can be best allocated; reevaluates current resources to determine project resource surplus and shortfalls

• Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews deliverables

• Tracks progress and reviews program and project activities to make certain deadlines are met appropriately

• Assesses program and project issues and identifies solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals

• Prepares and executes program communication

• Ensures all program stakeholders receive orientation and appropriate training in accordance with organizational standards

• Communicates with clients and other stakeholders to gain support for the program or specific projects, and to solicit input to improve the program

• Liaises with managers to ensure the effective and efficient program delivery

• Conducts regular program status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder's needs and requirements continuously in view

• Works collaboratively with development staff and support staff to maintain thorough knowledge of capabilities, and to ensure precise communications between project teams and stakeholders

• Creates program presentations and reports for executive leadership, program sponsors and stakeholders

• Presents program status and issues to leadership through formal presentations

• Proactively communicates program status, issues & risks to management

• Manages program budget

• Ensures that the program operates within the approved budget

• Monitors all budgeted program expenditures

• Ensures that all financial actuals for the program are up to date

• Works with IT Project Controllers to monitor budget expenditures

• Provides team mentoring and continues professional development

• Mentors various levels of project managers regarding all aspects of the project life cycle and project management discipline

• Continues professional development through attendance at meetings, professional seminars and conferences

• Supports CPOR Program/Project Management Office initiatives

• Supports the transformation of the CPOR Technology Program/Project Management Office