Project Manager

- Own end-to-end delivery of one or more large-scale IT programs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and the IT roadmap; define scope, objectives, success metrics, and benefits realization plans; and maintain integrated program plans, schedules, and milestones across multiple workstreams. - Serve as the primary point of contact for senior leaders, business partners, and technical teams; deliver clear status reports, dashboards, and steering committee updates; and facilitate decisions, escalate issues, and resolve conflicts and dependencies. - Establish and run program governance, including steering committees, change control, and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, while proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks. - Ensure adherence to security, audit, regulatory, and change management standards (e.g., ITIL, SOX, ISO 27001, as applicable). - Own program budget, forecasting, and variance tracking; manage vendor and third-party relationships, SOWs, and contract deliverables; and coordinate resource allocation and capacity planning across project managers, engineers, and business teams. - Lead and mentor project managers and coordinators; apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies as appropriate; and ensure quality through defined acceptance criteria, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness. - Partner with business and communications teams on change management, training, and user adoption, and ensure smooth operational handoff to support and run teams. - Lead post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned to drive continuous improvement. Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience) - 7+ years of experience in IT project/program management, including 3+ years managing multi-project programs - Proven track record delivering large, cross-functional technology programs (enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, or digital transformation) - Strong knowledge of program management frameworks (PMI/PMBOK, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, hybrid) - Experience managing program budgets and vendor relationships - Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills - Strong risk management, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities - Proficiency with program management tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Confluence, ServiceNow, Power BI)