Senior IT Project Manager
Posted:
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Valid Thru:
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Index Requested on:
05/27/2025 13:12:17
Indexed on:
05/27/2025 13:12:17
Location:
Moon Township, PA, 15108, US
Industry:
Professional Services
Occupational Category:
11-0000.00 - Management
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME
Michael Baker International is hiring!
Description:
The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of complex projects in a technical environment. It involves managing/leading key programs and projects required to achieve our business and IT goals. This role requires a high level of ownership collaborating with key stakeholders, skilled in organizational change management and assume full accountability for managing and delivering projects and programs.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Plans and manages a portfolio of IT programs that are comprised of highly visible, high-profile projects that span the organization and have significant enterprise impact.
- Develops overall program strategy to ensure proper sequencing and integration of large/complex projects within the portfolio and adjusts project scope, timing, and budgets as necessary, based upon the needs of the business.
- Actively work with all involved to mitigate risks by maintaining a project plan.
- Communicates with IT leadership and senior business leadership to review program strategy, direction, and changes.
- Experienced quantifying impacts of risks and issues to scope, schedule, budget and prioritizing and driving resolution.
- Continually evaluates and maintains efficiency in managing the portfolio of programs through planning, scheduling, and budget assessment.
- Lead and support the vision and strategy for assigned area of the program, including project investments, associated business, and functional requirements necessary to achieve defined business needs.
- Develop a deep knowledge of the assigned program technology and business unit, build positive relationships both horizontally and vertically.
- Coordinate the delivery and execution of all projects within the area of the program and prepare the team for the execution of projects.
- Help support the project prioritization process (e.g., ensure proposals get scored, get decision makers the data they need, etc.).
- Support the development of new programs to help achieve the strategic goals of the organization.
- Help support the intake of new project ideas to ensure they are properly vetted and triaged.
- Coordinate cross-project dependencies within a program.
- Help foster project manager compliance around project status reports and ensure portfolio dashboards/reports are current and accurate.
- Perform project QA to ensure required features and function shave been enabled and optimized.
- Gather project requirements (initial and detailed) from project stakeholders.
- Organize and coordinate programs and provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement PMO process improvements.
- Recommend changes that streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance the quality of services or products.
Organizational Change Management
- Support and drive knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to help optimize or facilitate a change initiative.
- Support the development and maintenance of a Project Change Strategy (Communications, Alignment, Training, Reinforcement and Resistance) and detailed plans.
Quality Assurance
- Implement quality assurance measures to ensure that process changes meet the desired objectives and deliver value.
Education & Experience:
- 10+ years of IT project management experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Management, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Business Process Management) are a plus.
- Proven experience in business process analysis and improvement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication (written and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in process mapping and analysis tools (e.g., BPMN, Six Sigma)
- Knowledge of project management methodologies.
- Familiarity with process modeling and automation software.
- Experience in digital transformation or using technology to drive customer business outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
- Project management skills to plan and execute process improvement initiatives.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with teams and across the organization.
- Methodical approach, with a firm understanding in Agile/Waterfall/other project management methodology principles.
- Familiarity with MS Dynamics 365 business applications (features, functionalities, and integrations).
- Experience implementing AEC360 solutions supporting project management, execution, and associated project accounting functions.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, and other project management tools.
- Strong data analysis skills, including proficiency in data visualization and analysis tools.
- Proficiency in process modeling and diagramming software (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart)
- Excellent documentation and reporting skills, with a demonstrated ability to prepare and present detailed project reports.
- Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
- Critical thinking and the ability to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities.
- Change management and training abilities to drive process adoption.
- Strong attention to detail and documentation skills.
- Understanding and experience within the end-to-end ERP implementation project life cycle.
Compensation
The approximate compensation range for this position $115, 000 - $150, 000 per year. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.
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