Sr IT Project Manager
OneClick Smart Resume · Lake Forest, CA · Yesterday
Information Technology$120k–$150k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Lead Software Project Delivery Across the Full SDLC
- Plan, organize, and manage complex software development initiatives from initiation through production release and post-implementation transition.
- Define project objectives, success criteria, and delivery plans aligned to business priorities.
- Ensure projects are executed in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
- Proactively identify delivery risks, issues, and dependencies, and drive resolution in collaboration with engineering, QA, and business stakeholders.
- Drive Requirements Coordination and Delivery
- Facilitate requirements discovery and validation activities in partnership with business stakeholders and product owners, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, documented, reviewed, and approved for delivery.
- Ensure requirements are actionable for development teams and traceable through design, build, testing, and release.
- Ensure requirements, quality and readiness to support efficient software delivery.
- Manage Project Controls: Scope, Schedule, Risk, and Change
- Establish and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, and dependency tracking across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Manage scope control and change management processes to ensure alignment with approved business objectives.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, escalating issues as appropriate.
- Balance competing priorities and resource constraints while maintaining delivery commitments.
- Clock Testing and Release Activities
- Plan and coordinate system, integration, and user acceptance testing activities in partnership with QA teams and business stakeholders.
- Ensure test plans, test execution, defect tracking, and remediation processes are followed.
- Validate release readiness and coordinate deployment, release communication, and transition to support and operations teams.
- Provide Stakeholder Communication and Executive Reporting (10%)
- Deliver regular, clear, and concise project status reporting to leadership, sponsors, and stakeholders.
- Communicate progress, risks, issues, and mitigation strategies at both operational and executive levels.
- Facilitate steering committee updates and decision-making forums as required to support timely delivery and issue resolution.
What You’ll Bring
- BA Degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business) or equivalent
- A minimum of eight years of software project management across the full Software Development Life Cycle with an emphasis on requirements management (implementation, documentation, and traceability), delivery governance, testing coordination, cross-functional stakeholder management and communication in a multi-project environment with competing priorities and shared resources.
- Expertise in project scope, change and risk management
- Expertise in coordination of system, integration, and user acceptance testing
- Expertise in leading multiple project teams, delegating work, managing team accountability/gap analysis in complex highly integrated environments
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing environments and manage projects in a matrix environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing vendor and third-party delivery coordination
- Must have experience managing Executive-level communication and reporting
- Must have ability to travel periodically
Pay
Salary Range: $120,000.00 to $150,000.00 depending on experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan with match and company provided life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Programs, pre-tax spending accounts, pet insurance, and employee discounts.
- Generous paid holidays, vacation & sick/personal business/volunteer days.
- Opportunities for career growth within a global technology organization.