Senior Project Management Specialist

Senior Project Management Specialist

Company:

The Boeing Company

Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Management Specialist (Level 4) to join the BDS Platform team in Seattle, WA, Arlington, VA, Berkeley, MO, Mesa, AZ, Everett, WA, Renton, WA, Huntsville, AL, El Segundo, or Ridley Park, PA!

This role requires a versatile leader with strong project management expertise and a deep understanding of Agile principles and practices, as well as more traditional program management best practices. The successful candidate will manage cross-team collaboration and planning, facilitate Agile program execution, and ensure alignment with business goals, schedules, and budgets. This position is ideal for someone experienced in managing projects in an Agile environment, coordinating dependencies, and driving delivery across multiple teams.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage complex data platform build that span multiple Agile teams and organizational units, ensuring effective coordination and delivery.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and program-level planning activities, including PI Planning or equivalent, to align teams and stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and issues using both Agile and traditional project management techniques.
• Create and track milestone-based plan, ensuring teams understand milestones and driving teams to deliver to plan.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, technical leads, and business stakeholders to ensure program objectives are met.
• Drive collaboration with multiple teams in different organizations, ensuring a single integrated plan and operating rhythm.
• Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, impediments, and risks to maintain program momentum.
• Drive continuous improvement in Agile adoption and project management processes across teams.
• Provide transparent and timely status reporting, metrics, and communication to leadership and stakeholders.
• Support organizational change management efforts related to Agile transformation initiatives.

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options.  This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required.  “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. 

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in business, business administration, computer science or engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in project or program management.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile and Scale Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Experience leading or managing projects that involved cross-functional or cross-business unit teams.
• Experience leading teams in the values, principles and practices of Agile Methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Experience in a role that required excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with one or more agile tools (i.e. Jira, VersionOne, Azure DevOps, Digital.ai, and/or other leading agile tools).
• Experience leading transformational change across an organization or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience in data platform or other platform build outs.
• PMP, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or equivalent certification preferred.

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.

Travel: Travel may be required up to 10% for this position.

Shift: 1st Shift

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies. 

Total Rewards & Pay Transparency:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

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