IT Program Manager I

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Position Purpose: In the Digital Experience and Engagement space, supports leadership and provides guidance on related large programs and projects with a view to improve the project performance and consistency of delivery. Sources project managers and scrum masters and provides oversight and remediation to troubled projects. Delivers, measures, and manages project performance in addition to providing input and collaboration on interdependencies within the projects and other programs.

• Evaluates, align, and integrate technical and business requirements and project plans to establish the program framework
• Manages multiple project scopes and successful execution within technical, schedule, cost, and quality commitments
• Provides direction to the project teams in areas of customer concerns, potential changes in scope, and risk assessment
• Coordinates program management reviews, preparing and publishing program management metrics and reports; maintain metrics for projects' quality, technical performance, and delivery
• Coordinates all risks and requirements of the projects by planning, controlling, and integrating all projects and measuring all elements to ensure the requirements and goals are successfully achieved
• Provide insight and recommendations during project execution and implementation to remediate issues
• Review and assess vendor statements of work and estimates
• Determines, monitors, reviews, and reports on all program attributes including program costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, quality, and risks
• Provides periodic project updates (Program Status Report) of current situation relating to milestones and problem/high risk areas (e.g., technical, cost, and schedule); provide updates to the IT leadership team and the business units
• Shares knowledge and develops team capabilities to strengthen understanding of IT and enterprise industry and business issues and best practices
• Identifies areas for improvement, share lessons learnt across the firms’ IT project teams, and encourage others to do the same
• Communicates regularly with functional and IT leaders to ensure enterprise alignment and support
• Establishes client relationships
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience: Requires a Bachelor's degree and 2 – 4 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

One or more of the following skills are desired.

• Experience with Jira or other Agile/Scrum related …