PMO Lead

About the role

Creates and implements complex project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for a large sized or multiple projects of high complexity, ensuring alignment with key release milestones, environment readiness, and architectural dependencies. Determines need for and impact of changes in scope of project and makes and implements recommendations based on determinations, including collaboration with technical architects to assess impacts to system design, integrations, and downstream environments. Gains concurrence, approval, and consensus from stakeholders regarding the various project aspects, adjusts accordingly.

Identifies appropriate resources and staffs projects. Organizes project team(s) members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives, including major release timelines and technical design dependencies. Acts as the point of contact with client project management. Identifies, when and as appropriate, staffing changes or needs as project progresses. Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. May act outside of established policies as necessary.

Oversees the ongoing review of project(s) status; identifies risks, including risks associated with release readiness, architectural constraints, or infrastructure dependencies. Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions and implements as appropriate, partnering with technical architects to resolve complex system or integration challenges. Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and approved technical designs.

Identifies or gathers information regarding possible solutions, working with technical architects to evaluate solution feasibility and scalability. Participates in proposal efforts and sales calls, partnering with architects to shape technically viable and competitive solutions. Manages a small team of Project Managers as their people leader.

Responsibilities

• Strategic & Analytical Skills
• Portfolio Management
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Risk Management including architectural and release dependencies
• Process & Governance Expertise
• Project Methodology Knowledge
• Software Development Lifecycle including release cycles
• Standardization & Compliance with configuration and change control awareness
• Release Management (Preferred)
• Configuration / Infrastructure Awareness (Preferred)

Skills

• Leadership & Communication
• Stakeholder Engagement including collaboration with technical architects
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Conflict Resolution including alignment between architecture and delivery teams
• Project Tools: MS Project, Jira, SharePoint and exposure to release/environment tracking tools
• People Management: Leadership experience with direct reports

Schedule

• Remote position (US only)
• Opportunities to travel through your work (0-10%)
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation

Pay

The pay range for this position is $86,000 - $124,000 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

Benefits

• Generous, flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) employer match
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Educational assistance
• Leadership and technical development academies