Program Manager Remote Responsibilities:
Our client is seeking a full-time Program Manager to support their team. Do you enjoy solving business problems with innovative software solutions? Do you enjoy working as a part of a dedicated team of intelligent and motivated individuals? Do you have experience with the intersection of Waterfall and Agile methodologies? We are seeking a Program Manager to join our team of business & IT consultants. If this sounds like you, we cannot wait to meet you.
Duties and Responsibilities: As a Program Manager, you will maintain ownership over the development, implementation, and delivery of large, complex client projects along with the management of all resources and deliverables of the project teams. Your mission is to effectively lead projects to an on-time and on- or under-budget completion.
?You'll utilize established DMI processes and documents, ensuring quality standards along the way. You'll create, update, and maintain all documentation including charters, work plans, timelines, issue/risk logs and budgets. When changes arise, you will utilize the controls established within the framework, and will manage project scope change management procedures. You will serve as the client's advisor on flexibility and how to adjust as the project progresses, while understanding and relaying the budgetary and schedule impacts to the client to aid in informed decision-making. Finally, you will obtain all signatures related to client sign-off on project documents and deliverables.
Communication is imperative, which means you'll engage your team and client regularly – keeping a positive team environment top of mind. You'll also communicate with the client, project stakeholders, and project sponsors to keep the client and DMI team up to date. Being a leader to your project team members, you'll look to remove roadblocks, boost morale, and ensure each member of your team has what he or she needs to perform at his or her best.?To remain at the top of your field, you will stay current on delivery methodologies, industry, and technology trends via continuous learning opportunities and professional development involvement.
Experience working in sequential and agile environments is a must. You must be able to adapt and merge traditional product management with Agile methodologies when necessary.
Qualifications: Education and Years of Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business field of study
• 7+ plus of combined software project management experience
• Project Management Institute (PMP) Certification or equivalent experience
Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:
• Understanding of and proven use of project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, and Jira
• Consulting skills such as interviewing stakeholders, facilitating meetings and negotiating skills
• Exposure to Agile methodologies and familiarity with Agile principles and values
• Exposure to Scrum and/or Kanban
• Experience with ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint retrospectives
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate at a level of detail appropriate for the audience
• Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills, strong work ethic, self-motivated, and excellent presentation skills
• Enthusiastic and driven to succeed
• Ability to work independently, but also successfully work on a team
• Comfortable working within an ambiguous environment, patiently working to define processes and planning schedule and/or backlog gradually over time
• Professional persistence – ability to track action items to closure with appropriate levels of follow-up
• Risk Management experience – establishing probability and impact of risks, creating and executing upon mitigation and contingency plans
• Detail oriented and sound independent judgment
Desired Skills/Certifications:
• Advanced Degree
• Agile Certifications
• Experience working in a consulting firm
