Senior Project Manager

Company Description

Hey there, Project Management Rockstar! 🚀 We’re looking for you to join our vibrant team and lead the charge of ensuring customer success from one-time projects to ongoing services. You’ll be the mastermind behind the project schedule, the hero ensuring successful completion, and the vital link between our Agile IT project team and customer senior leadership.

If you're passionate about protecting our nation’s defenses through IT security, eager to dive into the latest technologies, have a knack for problem-solving, and love tackling real-world business challenges, this is your moment to shine!

You'll be in the thick of a collaborative team environment, working in partnership with our leadership and project delivery staff. Your mission? To understand our customer’s business goals, navigate adoption hurdles, and define success beyond just implementing technology.

WHO WE ARE:

We invest in our people by providing opportunities for professional growth, offering competitive compensation, encouraging collaboration, and recognizing individual and team contributions. Additionally, we prioritize recruiting, developing, and retaining top talent to ensure that the skills and passion of our employees remain elevated.

Instead of having core values that are aspirational or so broad that they can be completely open to interpretation, we focus on 22 behaviors that we all strive to exhibit daily. To find out more about our culture, check out the Agile IT Culture Guide.

Job Description

WHO YOU ARE:

• You love motivating and driving action.  You enjoy energizing the team, inspiring them, and mobilizing them to take action and stay engaged, ensuring momentum and focus throughout the project.
• You get joy and energy from getting things done, as well as rallying others to get things done with you. You don’t mind blowing through obstacles; you are of high conviction and standards.
• You can collaborate with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed.
• You know how to create, manage, and distribute project communications artifacts like schedules, design plans, issues, and budgets.
• You ensure that projects remain in scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements by establishing key project success criteria metrics.
• You enjoy assisting in business development efforts by creating project proposals, RFP responses, change orders, estimates, and schedules.
• You ensure adherence to contract terms and legally binding requirements.
• You enjoy training, managing, and motivating the project team, as well as resolving team conflicts.
• You know how to work with the engineering delivery team on technical projects and help to introduce the Agile IT capabilities, roles, and responsibilities to client teams.
• You can assist in the requirement gathering sessions with clients to learn business processes and recommend best practices for product implementation and integration with our product(s).
• You know when to get stakeholders from the Agile IT and Client teams involved in the project and understand role requirements and key dependencies.
• You ensure the success of projects by managing and motivating team(s), addressing resource contention and shifting priorities.

Qualifications

WHAT SETS YOU APART

• 5-8 years in a Project Management
• Minimum 2-4 years in a Microsoft Professional Services delivery PM role or related
• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities as well as the associated teams schedules (10+ simultaneous)
• Capability to work independently start-to-finish at a project level
• Attention to detail with excellent problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate the professional and soft skills necessary to be an effective project manager
• Communicates decisions through design artifacts, tech talks, and leading team meetings. Mentors junior PMs via pairing, PM process review, and project review. Effectively communicates with a cross-functional audience.
• Considers the effects of their work across multiple teams and proactively manages potential issues.
• Identifies team-impacting problems, suggests solutions, and drives resolutions.
• Mentors junior PMs both technically and culturally.
• Exemplary written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Proficient end-user skills in working with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Teams

NICE TO HAVE

• A PMI or related certification (PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, ProSci) or comparable level Microsoft certification
• Familiarity with a sprint schedule and how it compares to Critical Path or waterfall
• Experience with Cloud Computing solution delivery and structures; (MS Azure and GCC High is highly desirable) 
• Experience in managing technology development, deployment and integration projects with budgetary constraints, compliancy, and licensing requirements

Additional Information

A writing sample will be requested from candidates who are chosen to move forward in the interview process. 

THE FINE PRINT:

Compensation and Benefits

• *Pay range is $110,000 to $140,000 per year. 
  • Starting pay is generally lower to mid-range; based on experience.
• This is a full-time non-exempt position.
• Medical/Dental/Vision/STD/LTD
• Remote mental and physical health networks
• $200,000 basic life insurance
• Voluntary life
• 401(k) with 3% employer contribution and 100% vesting
• Combined 18 days PTO increasing with tenure
• 9 paid holidays
• And so much more

*Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Hiring Pay Scale referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that Agile IT reasonably expects to pay for this position.

Background checks, pre-employment aptitude, and skills testing are a mandatory part of the recruitment process. All Agile IT employees are provided with laptops and home office equipment.  Due to the contractual requirements of our work with government entities, all hires must be US Citizens.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.