Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager (Agile Software Development)Overview / Summary We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale software development initiative. This role is responsible for managing project delivery, ensuring alignment with established project management and systems engineering methodologies, supporting long-term release planning, monitoring budget, quality, and schedules, managing risks and issues, and ensuring project scope and quality expectations are achieved.
Key Responsibilities - Manage software development projects from planning through delivery.
- Ensure adherence to established project management practices, procedures, and systems engineering methodology.
- Perform long-term release planning based on organizational direction.
- Monitor project budget, quality, and schedule.
- Regularly collaborate with project management teams to review project status.
- Escalate project risks and issues to executive leadership as needed.
- Perform project quality control activities to ensure project scope expectations are met.
- Provide comprehensive written and verbal reporting to stakeholders, including executives.
- Remove project impediments and negotiate cross-functional dependencies.
- Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, architecture, compliance, and operations teams.
- Guide teams in implementing Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and delivery forecasting.
- Support enterprise-level software solutions and integration-heavy, API-driven, or data-centric systems.
- Facilitate executive-level reporting, dashboards, burn-up metrics, and KPI updates.
Required Qualifications - 7+ years of experience serving as a Project Manager in a software development environment.
- Hands-on experience using Agile lifecycle management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally, or VersionOne.
- Experience working in fast-paced, cloud-first environments using Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Proven experience supporting complex, enterprise-level software solutions.
- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Secure Application Development Life Cycle (SADLC), and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience providing written and verbal reporting to stakeholders, including executives.
- Strong ability to remove impediments, negotiate dependencies, and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
- Experience supporting integration-heavy, API-driven, or data-centric systems.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to guide teams in Agile best practices, continuous improvement, and delivery forecasting.
- Strong servant leadership mindset.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to drive transparency, predictability, and continuous delivery.
- Comfortable facilitating executive-level reporting, dashboards, burn-up metrics, and KPI updates.
- Ability to maintain a positive, motivating influence in high-pressure or sensitive delivery timelines.
Preferred Skills - Knowledge of Azure DevOps (ADO).
- Knowledge of Clarity.
- Knowledge of API-driven integration.
- PMP, CPM, or equivalent Project Management certification.
- Experience utilizing the Clarity Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool.
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