Senior Project Manager (Modern Work Delivery Lead)

** This is an opportunity to join our team of top-notch modern work engineers working closely together on interesting projects for our clients. This position is fully remote (indefinitely). **

Emergent Software is looking for a Project Manager, called Delivery Lead here at Emergent, who is smart and passionate about delivering business value with Microsoft products. A qualified candidate has a strong grasp of project and client management methodologies and experience managing multiple projects at once. This 100% remote position is for self-starters with good communication skills, work ethic, and the ability to lead projects focused on the adoption of Microsoft Copilot, Purview, Intune, Entra, and standard M365 offerings.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• Work closely with other talented engineers and team members. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want

• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or whenever you work best

• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!

• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with software solutions.

• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth!

• Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful

• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave

Primary Duties

• Project Management: Ensure alignment on deliverables required to successfully complete project engagement, assign and track tasks and communicate status. Ensure considerations such as end user communication and risk management throughout the engagement.

• Schedule Management: Update resource schedules / allocations, meet with team members to ensure balance between demand and capacity, review timecard actuals vs planned.

• Budget Management: Track cost (ETC/EAC), forecast/re-estimate spend throughout project, manage cost variance, report overall valuation of the project progress and execution, manage resources and time tracking/reporting tools.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Manage stakeholder relationships and client engagement with direct support from client account managers.

• Communications: Facilitate all project meetings, create/update/distribute project documentation, send regular (weekly or bi-weekly) status updates to stakeholders per PMO policy, contribute to executive-level dashboards, participate in monthly/quarterly business reviews.

• Change Control: Document change control items per the standard PMO process & best practices, tracking impact to timeline, scope, resources, or cost.

• Risk & Quality Management: Identify, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout the project.

• DevOps & Production Support Process Adherence: Ensure your team adheres to DevOps and Production Support policies that include standard incident management, release management, build management, deploy management, change management and production support procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure offerings

• Solid understanding of traditional project management concepts and practices

• 4+ year track record of successfully managing implementation projects

• 3+ years’ experience with requirements gathering / documentation

• Sufficient level of technical background enabling you to provide credible guidance to engineering teams and accurately evaluate complex project risks and issues

• Familiarity with Microsoft Dev Ops and/or other work organization tools (Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Rally)

• Experience operating as the liaison between engineering teams and users, driving delivery in the right direction

• Ability to thrive on a small team in a fast-paced environment while juggling a variety of projects and wearing multiple hats

• Exemplary problem-solving ability & enthusiasm

• Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must

• Experiencing managing a wide breadth of priorities, includin