Senior Project Manager
Meet Our Team:
We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our IT PMO team. You'll serve as a trusted advisor and work with a diverse team of IT Managers, Product Managers, Developers, Testers, and UX to help define and deliver IT projects. You’ll collaborate closely with Business Stakeholders to monitor project execution and performance metrics to ensure delivery of strategic and tactical priorities.
Picture Yourself at Pega:
You will be part of the IT Project and Agile Delivery team. The role will be focused on planning, organizing and managing activities to achieve successful completion of agile projects while reinforcing commitments to quality, scope, time and budget. You’ll work with a diverse team of stakeholders from IT, Product, and various business units to define a shared vision and keep the team accountable for success.
What You'll Do at Pega:
- Provide project management oversight for application development projects
- Partner with Product Managers, Development Managers, and the PMO to complete capacity planning
- Ensure project artifacts are complete and contribute to the Continuous Improvement feedback loop
- Provide accurate and timely transparency into project status across stakeholders
- Manage Project risks and issues through proper escalation and mitigation planning
- Lead Project Closures and Retrospectives to identify Best Practices
- Manage customer expectations and partner with project stakeholders to effectively negotiate priorities, release planning, and delivery schedules
- Work closely with related Scrum Masters and Product Managers to ensure scrum artifacts support the overall project delivery
Who You Are:
The ideal candidate should be an accomplished senior project management professional who has a track record of building and leading large and sophisticated IT projects.
What You've Accomplished:
- 5 years minimum of project management experience, independently leading IT projects from definition through deployment
- 5 years minimum of experience working in a large global environment.
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills enabling you to manage cross functional projects in a resource matrix environment
- Ability to proactively manage change by assessing project impacts and creating plans to address resistance to change
- Experience with Agile (specifically Scrum) and Project Management tools
- Deep understanding of Project Management Methodologies and ability to navigate between Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid projects
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment
- Strong process and methodology knowledge and experience for software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Ability to quickly assimilate knowledge of technologies and products (highly technical).
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment.
- BS degree in an IT related field; MBA or Computer Science is a plus
Pega Offers You:
- Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
- Continuous learning and development opportunities
- An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
- Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company
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We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and skillsets to consider opportunities at Pega. At Pega, we focus on the skills needed to be successful and we know that our employees can thrive even if they don't possess a traditional background. If you like the sound of this role, but are not sure if you are the right person, please consider applying. We would love to hear from you!
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