Description

Engagement Manager (US - Sacramento, CA)

Position summary

Sikich is seeking an experienced Engagement Manager to join our team. In this client-facing leadership role, you will oversee the successful delivery of maintenance and operations services, ensuring projects are executed efficiently while maintaining strong relationships with clients and stakeholders. The ideal candidate is an experienced people leader who excels at managing delivery teams, mitigating risks, driving operational excellence, and ensuring services are delivered on time and in accordance with contractual requirements.

What will you do in this role?

• Lead the delivery of maintenance and operations services to ensure successful project execution.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, stakeholders, and internal project teams.
• Manage project schedules, resource planning, and overall delivery timelines.
• Monitor and manage project risks, issues, and service level agreements (SLAs).
• Provide leadership and oversight to project teams while ensuring deliverables are completed on time and meet quality standards.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support ongoing maintenance, operational activities, and cloud-based SaaS initiatives.
• Drive issue resolution and support continuous improvement efforts throughout the engagement.
• Ensure effective communication with stakeholders regarding project status, risks, and operational performance.

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• Minimum 5 years of full-time experience serving as a Delivery Manager or Support Manager in a maintenance and operations environment.
• Minimum 3 years of experience directly managing a team of at least 5 full-time resources.
• Minimum 4 years of experience performing schedule management, risk management, service level agreement (SLA) management, and problem/issue management.
• Minimum 1 year of experience supporting cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) development project.
• Bachelor's degree required, or an additional 4 years of qualifying experience performing schedule management, risk management, SLA management, and problem/issue management in lieu of the degree.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree.
• Current Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification.
• Minimum 1 year of experience providing oversight of system maintenance, operations, or development activities.

In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the base compensation range for this role is 175,000- 187,500- 200,000k. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on several factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Compensation ranges for roles in our Government Services pillar are determined by contract with the specific government agency Sikich is servicing.

In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:

• Values driven - You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation.
• Uncompromising problem solver - You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions.
• Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills trust - You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly.
• Impact & influence - You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives.

Sikich Total Rewards

Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

Some examples of our many benefits:

• Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
• Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.

We also offer:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE - Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

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