IT Senior Project Manager (Hybrid)

$134,640 - $149,600/Yr

Eversource Energy - Westwood, MA

Full-time - Senior

Westwood, MA

1,001-5,000 employees

Utilities

About the position

The IT Senior Project Manager (Hybrid) is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the success of Information Technology and related business projects. This role involves managing budgets, schedules, and delivery of initiatives in compliance with PMO standards. The primary focus is on leading program execution, building teams, removing impediments, and driving continuous improvement. The position requires effective communication with stakeholders and governance committees, as well as coaching Scrum Masters and teams in Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a significant complex enterprise-level program or multiple projects concurrently.
• Advocate and support the policies, processes, and practices of the PMO/Next Generation Delivery Organization.
• Develop and communicate plans to deliver major IT initiatives to the IT and business communities.
• Coach leaders, teams, and stakeholders in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Responsible for Agile Release Train metric reporting.
• Track the execution of features and stories; escalate and track impediments.
• Serve as the IT point of contact and primary interface on initiatives where the business/user community has appointed a project or program manager.
• Coordinate preparation of statements of work and specifications, estimation of product/service costs and pricing, and negotiation and administration of contracts.
• Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and story estimation by teams and across the Agile Release Train.
• Develop and oversee Agile scope management processes and customer acceptance throughout the delivery cycle.
• Facilitate the conduct of Agile Release Train ceremonies such as Scrum of Scrums and Big-Room/Program Increment Planning.
• Negotiate IT's interests and manage external vendor, contractor, and material contracts.
• Monitor budget and resource levels and advise principals as to developing trends and prepare periodic variance projections.
• Ensure that dependencies outside the Team are understood and proactively managed.
• Ensure that risks and issues between teams and with the rest of the organization are understood and managed against expectations.
• Lead the Project Team/Agile Release Train to identify and implement continuous process improvements.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve Team execution; recommend enhancements related to new and/or existing workflows.
• Ensure communications, collaboration, and coordination across teams, business partners, and other areas of IT.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project management.
• Five (5+) years of large Project Management experience.
• Five (5+) years of Agile delivery experience.
• Three (3+) years of Release Train Engineer experience.
• Prior Scrum Master or Product Owner experience.
• Agile certification (e.g., SAFe Program Consultant, Certified Agile Release Train Engineer, Certified Scrum Master) is required; PMP certification is preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range starting at $134,640.00 to $149,600.00, plus incentive.
• Comprehensive benefits package as outlined on the career site.