Job Description
Job Description
Hello There,
My name is Himanshu Sharma, and I serve as the Recruitment Lead at Kanak-IT INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of Sr. Project / Program Manager with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at Himanshu01@kanakits.com
Job Description
Position : Sr. Project / Program Manager
Location : St. Paul, MN Hybrid (Must have local DL)
Duration : Long term contract
Project / Program Planning & Management
- Develop comprehensive project plans using Waterfall & Agile methodologies.
- Define scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines.
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties / vendors for execution of projects within baselines.
- Utilize departmental tools for project management, tracking, and reporting.
Team Leadership
- Lead project teams and manage / coach junior project managers as appropriate to ensure service delivery.
- Support a collaborative and productive work and PMO team environment.
- Facilitate communication and coordination for projects / programs across cross-functional teams.
- Accountable to lead change management and conflict resolution efforts within assigned projects.
- Ensure teams have clear roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong stakeholder relationships to become a trusted advisor to project sponsors.
- Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and executive management in a timely manner to set expectations and escalate as appropriate.
- Ensure alignment of project objectives with business goals through stakeholder management activities.
Risk & Issue Management
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage project / program risks and issues through mitigation planning.
- Monitor and report project / program progress and performance throughout delivery lifecycle.
Budget & Resource Management
- Develop and manage project budgets, per governance requirements.
- Allocate resources effectively to ensure project success through demand management and capacity planning for projects / programs assigned.
- Monitor expenditures and ensure adherence to budget constraints.
Transformation & Organizational Change Management
- Lead transformation and change management scope within projects and programs as appropriate, to ensure solution adoption and process adherence.
Process Improvement
- Support the evaluation and refinement of project management methodologies and processes.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging practices.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED AND nine (9) years of experience managing multiple IT and business projects
- Note: Highest completed degree in the following majors: Computer Science, Business Management, or Project Management will count towards the minimum nine (9) years of required work experience.
- Associates degree counts as two years of experience
- Bachelor's degree or higher counts as four years of experience
- two (2) or more years in a lead role that required collaboration across multiple divisions with stakeholders from varying organizational levels.
- PMP or PgMP Certification
- CSM or SAFe Certification
- 2 years’ experience with MS Projec
- 1 years’ experience with Azure Dev Ops
- 1 years’ experience with Jira
- 1 years’ experience with GitHub
Desired Qualifications
Certifications
- CompTIA Security+
- Cisco (CCNP)
- Palo Alto Networks (PCNSE) or CISSP
- Azure Fundamentals – AZ-900
Skills
- Experience with PPM tools
- Cybersecurity: CISSP, CISM
- Networking: CCNA, CCNP
- Infrastructure: ITIL, Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)