Senior IT Project Manager- Release Train Engineer (Hybrid Schedule)

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            “Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Eversource will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position."

Our Team:
IT Agile PM/Release Train Engineers are responsible for the oversight and success of Information Technology and related Business projects. IT Agile PM/Release Train Engineers manage the budgetary, scheduling and delivery of assigned initiatives in compliance with the standards and procedures of the PMO/Next Generation Delivery Organization. The PM/Release Train Engineers primary focus is leading program and train-level execution, forming and building a team of teams, removing impediments, and driving continuous improvement. They are responsible for managing all aspects of team delivery including schedule, scope, costs, risks, dependencies, and issues. 

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a leader and coach on the Agile Release Train (ART), a team of teams that plan, commit, develop, and deploy software together to deliver significant value to Eversource’s end customers.  This leader/ coach possesses a strong understanding of Agile and can execute and manage Agile processes. The RTE will lead and guide one or more ARTs (depending on the size and complexity of the ART) in accordance with SAFe principles, ensuring alignment across teams and optimizing the flow of value. S/he will operate as a servant leader and coach, fostering a culture of trust, transparency, and continuous improvement across the ART.

Essential Functions: 

• Manages a significant complex enterprise level program, or multiple projects concurrently
• Work with the other Project Managers and have experience with a multi-system implementation and cross system integrations of complex business processes.
• Experience delivering large complex projects with multiple systems and new application implementation integrating with legacy systems
• Both a business and technology focus in running projects. Needs to be able to fully understand the business needs and deliver a solution to these requirements.
• Think outside of the box
• Advocate and support the policies, processes, and practices of the Program Management Office (PMO)/Next Generation Delivery Organization.
• Develops and communicates plans to deliver major IT initiatives to the IT and business communities; devises the summary and detailed project plans including tasks and interdependencies, milestones, people required including skill levels, and other resource and support requirements.
• Serves as the IT point of contact and the primary interface on initiatives where the business / user community has appointed a project or program manager.
• Outlines the responsibilities of different principals / parties including customers, customer and IT management, team members, IT support groups, vendors, consultants, and affected or impacted groups.
• Coordinate preparation of statements of work and specifications, estimation of product / service costs and pricing, and negotiation and administration of contracts. Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and story estimation by teams and across the Agile Release Train. 
• Negotiates Information Technologies interests and manages external vendor, contractor, and material contracts.
• Monitor budget, resource levels, and advise principals as to developing trends and prepare periodic variance projections.
• Ensure that dependencies outside the Team are understood and proactively managed.
• Ensure that risks and issues between teams and with the rest of the organization are understood and managed ag