Job Description
Job Title: IT Program Manager
Job Location: Fremont, CA (Onsite from day one)
Job Duration: 12+ months
Minimum years of experience required: 10+ years
Type of Hire: w2 contract
JOB DETAILS:
- Execution IT projects in various aspects Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security.
- Applies project management disciplines and experience, develops plans to include project definitions, scope, business requirements, cost, completion dates, resource allocation, and quality/reliability for a group of projects in 1 or more complex programs
- Actively partners with IT teams to ensure appropriate processes and templates are utilized for project and program success
- Accountable for establishing and managing multiple project deliverables, communicating project and program vision and ensuring IT resources are aligned properly
- Maintains the project budget schedules, and manages resource levels to achieve project success
- Utilize both agile and waterfall methodologies, driving technical and functional teams to complete critical path business requirements in a timely fashion
- Develops and implements corrective action plans when deviations from budgets and/or schedules are evident
- Develops and manages short- and long-term program roadmaps
- Prioritizes work on projects and programs based on business need and IT capability
- Drives expectation setting and leadership management within IT and the business
- Drive and assist with the development of business cases
- Engage with key business stakeholders to understand their needs, document requirements, and perform business analysis
- Facilitates vendor selection process and manages vendor relationships
- Maintains a high level of organization and planning while communicating with stakeholders to reach timelines and maintain customer satisfaction
- Regularly identifies risks and communicates project health to senior leadership
- Identifies and directs changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.
- Resolves most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently, but intuitively escalates complex issues to Portfolio management
- Looks for process definition and improvement opportunities and leads others in adhering to existing IT processes and contributing to their improvement
- Demonstrates flexibility and resilience in response to changing or ambiguous work situations
Qualifications
- Minimum of ten (15) years of IT experience.
- Project Management Certification preferred but not required (PMP)
- 10+ years' experience in successfully leading and managing across diverse projects and programs
- Security certifications like Security+, CISSP is a plus
- Technical experience is required; SDLC, Agile & Scrum methodology experience required
- Strong cross-group collaboration skills and experience working across multiple teams both within the division and across the company
- Excellent interpersonal, human relations, written, verbal and listening communication skills
- Ability to assist in creating project roadmaps
- Experience with working with MS Project, O365, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Smartsheet, Jira
Job Tags
Contract work, Temporary work