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Apex Systems · 2 days ago
Senior Project Manager
Madison, WI
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
6+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Conduct and monitor capacity & velocity planning of the scrum team
Report on burndown metrics, have the ability to identify early in the project if scope and schedule is not aligning/at risk
Drive clarity and transparency between all team members, leadership and partners on objectives, priorities and measures.
Leads highly visible multidisciplinary project team or initiative; provides thought leadership.
Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general department policies and industry guidelines.
Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
Maintain consistent lines of communication between engineering teams and program leadership
Makes connections across teams and work streams to drive identification and managing of interdependencies.
Coordinate integration environments such that dependencies can be tested together
Supervise the progress of the dependent features throughout the CI/CD process
Help lead and refine the tech-based backlog
Closely monitor, mitigates, and/or escalate risks and cross-team dependencies as needed to leadership
Assists product owner to define and continuously deliver business value through forward thinking, balanced solutions.
Champions adoption of Agile standard methodologies and provides mentoring to the team, leadership and partners.
Develop comprehensive delivery plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members, upon request
Handle changes to scope and schedule as they occur
Fulfill status reporting requirements
Perform other related duties as assigned, which would include tasks related to strategic planning
Qualification
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Required
Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
A minimum of 6 years of project management experience in technology functions.
Experience with agile project management methodologies
Working understanding of project management / agile tooling.
Must have experience with JIRA and/or JIRA Align, and Confluence
Experience working with distributed teams
Intellectual curiosity and a desire to dig into details, learn, ask questions and become the 'go-to expert' on certain concepts and topics.
Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Seen as a team player and is supportive of group decisions and ideas.
Written and oral communications skills with the ability to build rapport within the company, field and /or outside vendors.
High degree of personal initiative and motivation.
PMP certification preferred.
Preferred
Experience in Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence) - Master tracking and reporting our work, really know way around working in Jira.
Experience as both a Scrum Master AND Sr. Project Manager in Tech - Scrum master for multiple streams of work - understand a team, but project manage it as a whole. Not 'just a scrum master' - pull the whole thing together, pull it together on all streams.
Experience building roadmaps/large planning initiatives - Experience with roadmaps - project managing all the workstreams. Jennifer will pass down things, be pro-active in approach to upcoming deadlines/project.
Cross-functional dependency management - Cross-Functional all effort - DII effort touches lots of program across Tech., understand, identify which teams handle what, hold people accountable.
Background/Experience managing a project within Data Security (Masking, Remediation, PII Detection, Encryption)
Process Improvement background/lean or six sigma
Experience using Mural software - cross-functional planning.
C-suite PowerPoint building & reporting
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Training and certifications
Company
Apex Systems
Apex Systems, a division of On Assignment, provides organizations with IT staffing solutions to address gaps in their current workforce.
1,001-5,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (43)
2022 (47)
2021 (42)
2020 (85)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Roger Wahman
Chief Technology Officer - SVP
Andrea Schiola
Global Head of Technology Partnerships, SVP, Principal
Recent News
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