Project Manager I

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Lennar is one of the nation's leading homebuilders, dedicated to making an impact and creating an extraordinary experience for their Homeowners, Communities, and Associates by building quality homes and providing exceptional customer service, giving back to the communities in which we work and live in, and fostering a culture of opportunity and growth for our Associates throughout their career. Lennar has been recognized as a Fortune 500® company and consistently ranked among the top homebuilders in the United States.

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We’re searching for a highly qualified IT Project manager to report directly to our Vice President of Enterprise architecture. The IT Project manager will be responsible for impacting our productivity, streamlining strategic initiatives, overseeing program management, and communicating objectives between departments. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a business leadership / management role, with a special focus on executive-level advising, project execution, and key interdepartmental collaboration.

The IT project managers will also be focused on helping with a Technology Portfolio rationalization. This will include looking at Lennar’s technology landscape and providing guidance on removing, updating, and onboarding new applications to this landscape with the goal of reducing the technology stack within the ecosystem.

• A career with purpose.

• A career built on making dreams come true.

• A career built on building zero defect homes, cost management, and adherence to schedules.

Your Responsibilities on the Team 

• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required activities and tasks.

• Steering strategic business initiatives from genesis to fruition.

• Completing special projects and initiatives with skillful oversight and support.

• Leading meetings and workshops with meticulous planning and coordination.

• Implement a project communication plan.

• Perform risk assessment and implement mitigation plans.

• Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality and integrity of information, while providing consistency in content and “look and feel” across the organization.

• Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure that projects progress on schedule and within budget.

• Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.

• Benchmark project management performance continuously to identify the potential for improvements and increase capability in project and portfolio management.

• Define and execute the Application Rationalization program.

• Facilitate weekly Architecture Review Board (ARB) activities, preparing agendas, running the meeting, documenting action items and capturing outcomes and decisions.

• Maintain the Architecture web portal performing updates and additions as needed to deliver communication to and engagement of architecture communities of practice (COPs)

• Produce and publish EA quarterly bulletin highlighting key architecture decisions, deliverables and assets.

• Facilitate weekly aggregation of EA team 2x2x2 status outputs for roll-up and delivery to the VP of EA.

• Perform intake governance of request channels for EA services, tracking architect assignments and monitoring completion of architecture dispositions.

• Evaluate financial, cultural, technological, and organizational factors.

• Plan, monitor, and report on program-related activities.

• Lead project teams and maintain communication between IT and business stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain project plans, quality standards, and risk management strategies.

• Identify and mitigate risks, adhere to change control processes.

• Prepare executive-level status reports and manage communication at the portfolio level.

• Liaise with other teams (e.g. Engineering, VMO, PMO) in the design and development of approved solutions that will be delivered via projects and will deliver business benefits.

• Manage third party suppliers to ensure that products and/or services delivered are compliant with the agreed contracts and that they deliver on time, within budget and to defined levels of quality (fitness-for-purpose).

• Ensure actions are prioritized based on potential impact and feasibility

• Act as a liaison between Enterprise Architecture and all other departments/levels 

• Formulate recommendations for application decommis