Sr Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Web/Mobile Application Development projects, including directing third-party resources and virtual teams.
• Develop and grow partnerships with senior functional managers to prioritize projects and achieve business objectives.
• Support business case development; perform project registration, consolidation, and prioritization; create funding plans; and administer project pipeline checkpoints.
• Define and manage project scope, objectives, requirements, deliverables, and value proposition across multiple stakeholders.
• Develop integrated project plans; identify and manage dependencies and critical paths; track and report project milestones and status.
• Estimate resource needs; track utilization; manage on/off-boarding; and monitor vendor performance on labor resources.
• Draft and submit project budget proposals; conduct cost forecasting, actual tracking, and variance reporting.
• Identify, track, escalate, and resolve issue conflicts; perform impact analysis and manage risk with corrective and mitigating actions.
• Lead communication planning, execution, and reporting with project team members; liaise with key stakeholders.
• Support change management planning, design, and implementation including communication and training.
• Manage documentation and knowledge transfer to business-as-usual functions; conduct lessons-learned reviews.
• Manage execution of vendor contracts and ensure adherence to contract provisions where applicable.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.
• Certifications: PMI certification required.
• Experience: Minimum five years of increasingly complex project management experience.
• Familiarity with Jira, Scrum, Agile, and Waterfall practices.
• Familiarity with application development practices and cloud, network, and security infrastructure components.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and conflict management skills.
• Prioritized leadership with a demonstrated ability to present and gain support for ideas and solutions.
• Highly polished communication skills; strong written, verbal, and stand-up presentation abilities with the ability to adjust to audience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience coaching and mentoring project team members and assessing developmental needs.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate a vision for future state and provide enterprise-level perspective.