IT Sr Project Manager

Overview

Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2025!

 

Summary:

As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving projects forward using agile

methodologies. Throughout the project lifecycle, you will track progress, work with Engineering and

Product counterparts to manage timelines proactively and ensure effective resolution of issues. In

addition, you may serve as the Scrum Master, facilitating various agile ceremonies, acting as a servant

leader, and creating reports to showcase team productivity.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead project planning, resource allocation, and monitoring to ensure projects stay on schedule and within budget, utilizing agile principles.
• Motivate cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and deliverables, fostering a collaborative and agile working environment.
• Accountable for delivering technical projects on time, within budget, and with successful outcomes according to business objectives.
• Develop comprehensive project plans encompassing scope management, deliverables, milestones, resource management, finance, and quality management, in an agile context.
• Manage multiple projects/scrum teams simultaneously, ensuring effective adherence to Agile practices.
• Facilitate backlog grooming sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure clear priorities, understanding, and dependencies before sprint planning.
• Appropriately engages all organizations to ensure effective adherence to completing PDLC governance.
• Maintain and prioritize the requirements backlog, ensuring alignment with technical and operational needs.
• Collaborate with Product Management to help drive sprint planning sessions to set development teams up for success in meeting their commitments.
• Proactively remove impediments for project teams to ensure continuous workflow.
• Monitor and communicate project health, managing interdependencies, and defining critical milestones.
• Conduct retrospectives, drive continuous improvements, and share best practices within the organization.
• Uphold the company's commitment to risk management and data integrity.

 

Qualifications

Education:

Preferred 

 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications

Experience:

Minimum 

• Minimum 8 years of Agile, Scrum, project management, or related experience with a software development team that applied Scrum principles, practices, and theories.
• Proven track record of leading agile transformations by successfully coaching and transitioning teams, programs, and portfolios at all organizational levels, including senior leadership.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira and Confluence.

Preferred 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications (preferred).
• 10+ years experience working in the Insurance industry managing Property / Casualty Information Technology projects.
• Experience with Policy and Claims management platforms is also preferred with an emphasis on Guidewire. 
• The selected candidate will be required to travel to the Brea, California office frequently for meetings and required project events. Location proximal to the Brea office is considered a requirement for the position. 

Skills & Abilities:

Minimum 

• Ability to influence without authority, be an effective negotiator, and communicate with various organizational levels, including cross-functionally, at the frontline, and with senior leadership.
• Demonstrate high level of interpersonal skill used to build relationships and manage conflict within the team and cross-functionally. Well-developed capacity for emotional intelligence.

 

 

 

About the Company

Why choose a career at Mercury?

At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.

 

Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.

 

We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus poten