Project Manager

TEKsystems
Scottsdale, AZ, US
Full-time

Job Description

Job Description

We are seeking a Sr IT Project Manager to join our team! This is an instrumental role in supporting and driving technology and product development projects within Architecture, Development, and Infrastructure.

Projects include product feature enhancements, resiliency and platform development, and net new product feature work. It will also encompass interaction with key internal customers and external vendors.

This role will work with Jira reporting dashboards / administration. Focus on process improvement and automation.

Top Skills Details

1. Project Management experience (5+ years) *PMP required*

2. Jira (Confluence)

3. Scrum Master exp (2+ years) *CSM preferred

Key needs :

  • Ability to run concurrent IT, business application, operations, and development projects
  • Strong leadership skills and the ability to drive issue resolution
  • Ability to influence and drive outcomes without being in a position of authority
  • Strong reporting skills (document, track and report project status, activities, resources and progress)
  • Strong communication skills, able to communicate well at all levels, including senior management
  • Self-managed, ability to drive projects through to completion within expected delivery timeline
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to include reasoning skills such as storage, retrieval, matching and execution skills

Education, Experience and Knowledge :

  • Bachelor’s Degree (BA, BS) or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of project management experience; PMP preferred
  • Significant experience with JIRA and Confluence required; JIRA power user level, ability to run advanced queries highly preferred
  • LEAN or Six Sigma certification highly preferred
  • 2+ years of Scrum experience
  • CSM or similar certification highly preferred
  • In depth understanding of project management, program management, and scrum best practices
  • Must have experience managing multiple interdependent projects or work streams
  • SDLC background with experience in complex multi-system projects
  • Experience working in variety of project methodologies (Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban)

Abilities :

  • Ability to listen to and provide support for teams in problem-identification and decision-making
  • Ability to create an environment of mutual influence
  • Ability to work both independently collaboratively with customers, peers and other stakeholders.
  • Ability to understand and analyze complex problems with multiple complex variables
  • Ability to interface effectively with stakeholders at all levels across the organization.
  • Ability to make measurable progress on multiple high priority task simultaneously
  • Ability to monitor and report on critical project achievements, and identify ways to resolve project blockers and scheduling issues

Looking for a PM with 5 years of experience managing large projects within application development. Must have experience working as a Scrum Master and have a background in both Agile and Water projects.

  • Heavy Jira experience is an absolute must
  • PMP certification and CSM preferred
  • Any LEAN / Six Sigma exposure is highly desired
  • Agile / Scrum, Kanban AND Waterfall experience highly desired
  • Must have solid experience with software development projects / SDLC; additional experience with infrastructure projects is desired as they will be working across the organization on a variety of projects
  • 30+ days ago
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