Senior Project Manager

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Project Manager Consultant that wants new challenges in New York City! The IT Business Systems Delivery (BSD) Customer Engagement department supports, manages, and implements a portfolio of IT system capital initiatives with our Client's Customer Operations, Energy Services business partners. This IT team supports each initiative from conception to implementation and provides the necessary IT support required to either enhance existing systems, create or enhance interfaces, and or design, develop, test, and implement new applications.

Our Client's Customer Engagement Pega Team is looking for a Project Manager with strong communication skills to work with our existing IT delivery team to design, develop, test, and implement key functional enhancements based on business requirements from our Client's product owner and regulator. In addition to having strong communication skills, the Consultant must have strong problem-solving skills, and be able to foster relationships, facilitate and coordinate standard project operations, and support and drive excellence. 

Other responsibilities are:

• Ensure that the project team adheres to project operational standards and follows Microsoft Azure DevOps processes for reporting tasks, defects, and time 
• Organize and lead project status, working meetings, and scrum ceremonies if applicable (such as daily standup, backlog grooming session, and sprint retrospectives)
• Prepare and distribute progress reports and meeting minutes
• With help from the team, implement, and maintain the project or work plan
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to coordinate project schedules
• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected stakeholders
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams and different locations
• Define release scope and schedule, with a focus on regular and timely delivery of value
• Collaborate with the team to identify impediments being faced by the team
• Represent the project team at meetings
• Create project and work plans for assigned program work streams
• Balance scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk. Make adjustments as necessary
• Measured and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process and take corrective actions to deliver the project on time, within budget
• Obtain buy-in from senior management for all key project plans, commitments, and changes, including requirements, quality assurance plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Help define team member roles and expectations, and ensure project resources are used effectively
• Assist in team development, while holding teams accountable for their commitments and removing roadblocks to their work
• Assist in leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work

This is an hourly position with opportunity for overtime.

 **All Candidates Must be Authorized to Legally Work in the US Without Sponsorship**

Mandatory Qualifications: (Please read carefully. They MUST be shown on your resume)

• Strong knowledge of Project Management and Software Development methodology and tools: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC, DevOps, SaFE
• Experience with project operational standards and following Microsoft Azure DevOps processes for reporting tasks, defects, and time 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to document and communicate the status of project progress against plans, taking corrective action as necessary
• Ability to manage the success of metrics defined by the project and the organization
• Ability to manage stakeholder relationships
• Ability to define, implement, and maintain project process guidance (e.g., project plan and subordinate plans), tailoring organizational processes as needed in collaboration with Scrum Master
• Ability to identify, clarify, and resolve issues and risks, escalating them as needed
• Ability to negotiate changes to commitments/requirements
• Ability to review ongoing and proposed projects to identify opportunities for reuse and process improvement

$500 Referral Fee Program

Earn extra cash while helping your friends!

VTS3 will pay you up to $500.00 for each person you refer to us and we place into a contract or full-time position. If you know someone who's a good candidate for any of our openings, use the "Refer a friend" button on this page and earn extra cash.

The rules are simple:

• The referral must be made by using the "Refer a friend" button on this page
• The person you refer must be placed within 90 days of being referred
• The person you refer must complete 480 billable hours
• Cannot be someone we already have on our team or are currently working with