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Eversource Energy · 18 hours ago

Senior IT Project Manager- Release Train Engineer (Hybrid Schedule)

Westwood, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$139K/yr - $154K/yr

10+ years exp

Eversource Energy is a leading energy company, seeking a Senior IT Project Manager- Release Train Engineer to oversee and ensure the success of IT and related business projects. The role involves managing budgets, schedules, and delivery of initiatives while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and Agile practices across teams.

DeliveryElectrical DistributionEnergyEnergy EfficiencyNatural ResourcesOil and GasRenewable EnergyStaffing Agency

No H1B

Responsibilities

Manages a significant complex enterprise level program, or multiple projects concurrently

Work with the other Project Managers and have experience with a multi-system implementation and cross system integrations of complex business processes

Experience delivering large complex projects with multiple systems and new application implementation integrating with legacy systems

Both a business and technology focus in running projects. Needs to be able to fully understand the business needs and deliver a solution to these requirements

Think outside of the box

Advocate and support the policies, processes, and practices of the Program Management Office (PMO)/Next Generation Delivery Organization

Develops and communicates plans to deliver major IT initiatives to the IT and business communities; devises the summary and detailed project plans including tasks and interdependencies, milestones, people required including skill levels, and other resource and support requirements

Serves as the IT point of contact and the primary interface on initiatives where the business / user community has appointed a project or program manager

Outlines the responsibilities of different principals / parties including customers, customer and IT management, team members, IT support groups, vendors, consultants, and affected or impacted groups

Coordinate preparation of statements of work and specifications, estimation of product / service costs and pricing, and negotiation and administration of contracts. Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and story estimation by teams and across the Agile Release Train

Negotiates Information Technologies interests and manages external vendor, contractor, and material contracts

Monitor budget, resource levels, and advise principals as to developing trends and prepare periodic variance projections

Ensure that dependencies outside the Team are understood and proactively managed

Ensure that risks and issues between teams and with the rest of the organization are understood and managed against expectations

Ensure that all training and transition management activities are in place for the customer base, including coordinating process redesign, new procedures, and acceptance of modern technologies and/or capabilities into daily use within the user community (done in conjunction with a business / user program manager if one has been appointed)

Ensure communications, collaboration and coordination across teams, business partners and other areas of IT

Develop and implement alternatives and/or solutions to mitigate problems, issues, conflicts, etc

Facilitates key ART-level events, including PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt, ART Sync, and Scrum of Scrums

Trains, Mentors and Coaches Product Owners and Scrum Masters in preparing and developing the features and work items for the teams to plan in PI Planning and Sprint planning events and identifying cross-team and cross-program dependencies and risks

Communicates with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risks, and drive relentless improvement

Maintains agile tools and dashboards to track progress towards PI objectives and flow of value

Communicate program progress, health, status, risks and impediments to business and IT leaders who may not have agile program experience

Drives ART delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing ART retrospective, assessment, and metrics to identify areas of opportunity

Creates a compelling vision, clear direction, and strategy for the team

Promotes DevOps principles inside the organization to aid in the design and continuous enhancement of a continuous delivery pipeline

Encourage Organizational Change Management (OCM), communications and training as needed to drive process and tool adoption, implementation, and compliance

Qualification

Agile Project ManagementSAFe CertificationProject Management SkillsData Analytics SolutionsETL PipelinesOracleSAPBig Data TechnologiesCommunication SkillsTeam LeadershipProblem SolvingCollaboration

Required

Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position

Eversource will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position