Senior IT Project Manager (Remote)

WHO WE ARE

Supported by more than 4,000 employees in nearly 100 locations across the United States, we provide a full continuum of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management. Our clients include U.S. federal, state and municipal governments, foreign allied governments, and a wide range of commercial clients. Michael Baker is committed to delivering a standard of excellence that fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement to help solve our clients' complex challenges.

Job Summary 

The IT Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of complex projects in a technical environment. It involves managing/leading key programs and projects required to achieve our business and IT goals. This role requires a high level of ownership collaborating with key stakeholders, skilled in organizational change management and assume full accountability for managing and delivering projects and programs. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

•             Plans and manages a portfolio of IT programs that are comprised of highly visible, high-profile projects that span the organization and have significant enterprise impact.

•             Develops overall program strategy to ensure proper sequencing and integration of large/complex projects within the portfolio and adjusts project scope, timing, and budgets as necessary, based upon the needs of the business.

•             Actively work with all involved to mitigate risks by maintaining a project plan.

•             Communicates with IT leadership and senior business leadership to review program strategy, direction, and changes.

•             Experienced quantifying impacts of risks and issues to scope, schedule, budget and prioritizing and driving resolution.

•             Continually evaluates and maintains efficiency in managing the portfolio of programs through planning, scheduling, and budget assessment.

•             Lead and support the vision and strategy for assigned area of the program, including project investments, associated business, and functional requirements necessary to achieve defined business needs.

•             Develop a deep knowledge of the assigned program technology and business unit, build positive relationships both horizontally and vertically.

•             Coordinate the delivery and execution of all projects within the area of the program and prepare the team for the execution of projects.

•             Support the development of new programs to help achieve the strategic goals of the organization.

•             Help support the intake of new project ideas to ensure they are properly vetted and triaged.

•             Coordinate cross-project dependencies within a program.

•             Help foster project manager compliance around project status reports and ensure portfolio dashboards/reports are current and accurate.

•             Perform project QA to ensure required features and function shave been enabled and optimized.

•             Gather project requirements (initial and detailed) from project stakeholders.

•             Organize and coordinate programs and provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers.

•             Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements.

•             Recommend changes that streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance the quality of services or products.

Organization Change Management

•             Support and drive knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools.

•             Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to help optimize or facilitate a change initiative.

•             Support the development and maintenance of a Project Change Strategy (Communications, Alignment, Training, Reinforcement and Resistance) and detailed plans.

Quality Assurance

•             Implement quality assurance measures to ensure that process changes meet the desired objectives and deliver value.

Supervisory Responsibilities 

•             No direct reports

•             Proven experience managing project contributors within and across cross-functional teams on projects with senior executive level visibility and enterprise-wide impact. 

Experience 

•             Proven experience in business process analysis and improvement.

•             Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

•             Excellent communication (written and interpersonal skills.

•             Proficiency in process mapping and analysis tools.

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