Technical Project Manager

Infomatics Incorporated - Seattle, WA

Full-time

Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Project Manager plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring that projects are effectively created and managed to address internal business challenges and enhance guest experiences. This position requires a proactive approach to project management, emphasizing organization, curiosity, and facilitation skills. The Project Manager is responsible for assembling the right team members at the right time to tackle problems, while also managing risks and dependencies to optimize team performance and deliver value promptly. The role encompasses a variety of delivery methodologies, including waterfall, Kanban, and scrum, allowing for flexibility in project execution. In this position, the Project Manager will plan, manage, monitor, and ultimately close or hand over large projects that have complex scopes, multiple work streams, and interdependencies. This includes effectively managing and reporting on risks and mitigation strategies, as well as overseeing project scope, budget, and timelines. Building strong relationships and collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as cross-functional teams, is essential to ensure that solutions align with timelines and business objectives. The Project Manager will ensure that all project and program tasks are clearly understood, assigned, and tracked, completing all necessary project documentation in accordance with the PMO process. Additionally, the role involves engaging in discussions and communicating ideas aimed at continuously improving PMO processes, fostering a positive and constructive attitude, and encouraging this mindset in others. The ability to manage projects in both Agile and Waterfall environments is a key requirement for this role.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, monitor, and close/handover large projects with complex scope, multiple work streams, and interdependencies.
• Effectively manage and report on risks and mitigation, scope, budget, and timelines.
• Develop relationships and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet timeline and business objectives.
• Ensure all project/program tasks are clearly understood, assigned, and tracked.
• Complete all project documentation required based on our PMO process.
• Engage in and communicate ideas for supporting the continuous improvement of PMO processes with a positive and constructive attitude.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or business.
• PMP and/or Scrum certification considered an asset.
• 3+ years of project management/industry work experience.
• Familiarity with IT SDLC processes (waterfall and agile) and compliance requirements such as PCI & SOX.
• Ability to manage project budgets including capital and expense costs.
• Strong leadership, sound judgement, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Aptitude to learn and manage change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to successfully manage teams with competing priorities within deadlines in a complex and rapidly evolving organization.

Nice-to-haves

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.