Project Manager - Enterprise Engineering - Ekman Associates, Inc
Menlo Park, CA 94025
About the Job
Job Description
Title: Project Manager – Enterprise Engineering
Location: Remote
Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.
Summary:
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing complex IT and business transformation projects, tactical execution of business processes, solid project management, and strong working knowledge of SDLC and agile framework.
Responsibilities:
Title: Project Manager – Enterprise Engineering
Location: Remote
Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.
Summary:
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing complex IT and business transformation projects, tactical execution of business processes, solid project management, and strong working knowledge of SDLC and agile framework.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with engineering and business owners to drive planning, execution and delivery of critical projects. Spearhead the projects using SDLC and scrum practices.
- Develop communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
- Partner with cross functional teams to drive product analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases.
- Ensure project activities happen as planned. Own end to end planning, execution, delivery and change management for multiple projects.
- Work closely with the Portfolio/Program Manager to establish program governance and decision models.
- Drive process improvements across multiple teams and functions including reducing the manual efforts through automation.
- Work with various globally distributed cross functional teams to align on project priorities, track and manage inter dependencies.
- Assist the Program Manager in developing detailed requirement analysis, planning, driving e2e execution and overall status updates
- Identify and map program and project dependencies within and outside of the program/project, ensuring the right cross-functional partners are engaged in a timely manner.
- Track and manage inter dependencies and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly.
- Resolve conflicts/issues that occur and resolve impediments blocking scrum team's progress. Manage project risks with mitigation strategies.
- Drive adoption and proficiency of changes within the organization in compliance with program's change management methodologies.
- Effectively manage stress in accomplishing the foregoing list.
- 9+ years of experience in the Project Management domain with a track record of delivering complex technology projects in high-tech IT/Operations space.
- Strong experience in managing complex projects using software development lifecycle
- Demonstrated record of problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience collaborating with technical teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
- Experience leading global projects, including hands-on project management of multiple concurrent projects.
- Experience with leading and delivering projects both in agile and waterfall methods.
- Experience with change management, IT service management/service catalog.
Source : Ekman Associates, Inc