IT Project Lead jobs in Lansing, MI

Must be local to Michigan now

Face to Face Interview

Note:

• They will want verification of a Drivers License that this person is here now.
• Must Provide 3 professional references (Phone, Email, Full name, Company they worked at with them and their title)

Job Description:

This Project Manager will be responsible for a $20 million modernization project, which will be highly complex, require extensive change and vendor management skills, and experience with Microsoft DevOps.

General responsibilities:

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsors.
• Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics.
• Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope.
• Creates and implements a communication plan. Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsors. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
• Provides technical support to project members. Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features. Generally, manages a group of applications system analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Professional certification is highly desirable.
• Provides overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation, and delivery of a project.
• Exercises management responsibility over the achievement of performance, revenue, and profit objectives of a project and its contracts.
• Ensures that the project plan maintains tasks, schedules, estimates, and status, and disseminates information to team members and customers.
• Creates a structure and organization for the management of a complex environment with emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency.
• Directs corrective actions in any area when performance falls below objectives. Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, and support functions, and monitors their performance.
• Self-directed and independent. Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects.
• Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
• Prepares reports for executives and upper management regarding status of project and presents status of projects in regularly scheduled program steering meetings.

Required experience:

• 5 years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
• 5 years Agile Leadership Experience (document in resume).
• Past 5 years of experience must be as a Project Manager working on IT Projects.
• Documented experience managing an IT project in a large, complex enterprise-governed IT ecosystem.
• Microsoft DevOps Experience.
• Program management experience highly desired; experience working with other project managers to ensure technology integration between systems.