IT Senior Project Manager – CPMO # JN -062021-65668

Position title : IT Senior Project Manager – CPMO

Duration :  12 months

Location : Columbia, SC

MUST HAVE REQUIREMENTS:

• Led software development efforts
• "Doers” with in-depth experience leading software development efforts in an organization with a formal methodology and a strong PMO environment.

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts. Responsible for moderate number of work efforts simultaneously that vary from a smaller to a moderate scale, with smaller number of hours to moderate number of hours, and with moderate system impacts and moderate scope and complexity.
• Adheres to project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budgeted hours, adheres to high quality standards, and meets ISSM expectations. 
• Monitors project plans, assignments and work efforts on a daily basis. 
• Ensures resource needs are assigned appropriately and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues. 
• Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans to meet the needs of work effort. 
• Responsible for leading the project from inception to final business acceptance and implementation.

Required Work Experience:

• 5 years IT experience in a leadership capacity, including 3 years experience leading two or more concurrent project teams.
• SDLC Project Management experience
• IT Leadership experience on multiple concurrent project teams
• MS Office, including MS Visio
• MS Project
• MS Azure Boards
• PMP Certification (Highly Desired)
• CSM Certification (Highly Desired)
• Experience writing scope / design / implementation documents
• Can speak intelligently about the methodologies they have worked

Required Software and Tools:

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and project management tools.

CANDIDATE TECHNICAL BACKGROUND:

• The Project Leader (PL) is responsible for all project management activities in a matrixed project environment utilizing waterfall/PMBOK-based methodology.
• The project environment is fast-paced and deadline-focused.
• The successful PL is able to: work independently while keeping management informed, handle deadline pressures, and effectively escalate project issues.
• The PL is accountable for the delivery of projects on time, on budget, and on target.
• Facilitating project team through the definition of scope, requirements, and design.
• Responsible for authoring (using input from project team) required project documentation, including scope document, design document, and implementation document.
• Responsible for facilitating the WBS process and translating WBS into an MS-Project project schedule or MS Azure Boards task list, detailed to an 8/80 level of granularity.
• Responsible for keeping the project schedule updated throughout the project life cycle, and for managing a change control process to reflect changes in requirements, deliverables, dates, or budget.
• Responsible for facilitating the identification of project risks and issues, and tracking these through the project life cycle.
• Responsible for coordination of customer testing, with the assistance of a Test Analyst on larger projects.
• Responsible for scheduling, facilitating and recapping project team meetings.
• Responsible for the escalation of project issues, and for communications of project status to all levels of management on both customer and I/S side.