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GCI · 4 months ago

IT Project Manager II

Anchorage, AK

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

GCI is a telecommunications company that is seeking an IT Project Manager II responsible for leading multiple concurrent projects to completion. The role involves managing project teams, overseeing project budgets and schedules, and ensuring that project requirements are met on time and within scope.

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Responsibilities

Technical Project Management

IT Specific Project Management of systems, hardware, data and/or migration of them

Oversee and manage a disciplined project team of technical teams, business unit/groups, contractors, consultants, and vendors

Foster high performing team dynamics assisting development and configuration teams to self-organize and self-manage to achieve maximum results

Define project scope and prioritization, manage, and participate in procurement of resources

Develop and maintain project milestones, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, changes, and overall project health status

Manage Contracts and outside consultants and contractors

Maintain and ensure complete communication and documentation of projects in the formats and standards defined

Adhere to Traditional Waterfall, Agile, and/or blended portfolio and program management processes

Remove impediments, dedicated to constant improvement, and assure all dependencies and integration with other teams are properly communicated and coordinated up through the enterprise leveraging change management

Manage personnel resources within all internal groups, business, technical, consultants, contractors, and vendors

Develop and maintain technical project budgets; project schedules to include prioritization, sprints, backlog, milestones, traditional Gantt, and PET charts etc. In addition, ensure project documentation is current and complete

Define project scopes with internal and external customers and oversee and participate in prioritization and business case development

Qualification

Agile MethodologiesSDLCProject ManagementTelecommunications ExperienceBudget DevelopmentRisk ManagementScrumITIL CertificationCommunication SkillsCollaborationLeadership SkillsNegotiation SkillsCustomer Focus

Required

A combination of relevant work experience and/or education sufficient to perform the duties of the job may substitute to meet the total years required on a year-for-year basis

High School diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in IT, Management, Business, Accounting, Compliance, Audit, Telecommunications, or related field

Minimum of three (3) years of project management experience, developing project budgets and schedules, including at least one (1) year experience in IT

Preferred

Telecommunications experience

Business, accounting, audit, compliance, or technical process experience

Agile Experience: Understanding of Agile techniques such as: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, etc

Experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and/or Release Train Engineer

Experience using Agile Tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Portfolio, Trello, etc

Working knowledge of DevOp's, Continuous Integration and Delivery, SCRUM, Kanban, XP, SAFe, etc

Demonstrated leadership in process improvement and innovation

Certifications: Project Management Institute Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP and/or PMP-ACP)

Agile Certified Professional (ACP), IC Agile, LEAN Six Sigma

Certified Scrum Master (SAFE Certification)

ITIL Certification (V3 or 4), Foundation, Practitioner, Intermediate, Expert, Managing Professional, Strategic Leader, Master

Other relevant Applications, Programming, or Software certifications