Senior Technical Project Manager-(Onsite) Overland Park, KS

Responsibilities

• Accountable for cross-functional technical and product management teams to prioritize projects by understanding scope, requirements, level of effort, and pipeline, and clarify tradeoffs when changes are made to that plan

• Accountable for resource management, project documentation, risk mitigation, executive-level communication and effective management of ongoing projects.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to business partners on options to accomplish requested projects

• Identify, resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion

• Develop, implement, measure and report on key performance indicators; create and update project dashboards

• Contribute to maturity of enterprise-wide project management methodology and drive process improvement efforts

• Coach, mentor and develop other technical project management professionals.

Qualifications
Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• At least 5 years experience with project coordination or management of IT and/or software development projects

• At least 2 years of experience mentoring, coaching and developing talent in information technoogy or product development

• At least 2 years of experience with release and change management to deliver successful projects

• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising technical teams

• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively remove obstacles while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders

• Expert in project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall

• Demonstrated experience with project management tools such as Jira or MS Project and creating detailed project plans, timelines and resource allocations

Preferred

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Project Management Institute (PMI) certification

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification

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