Senior Project Manager

Job Description Senior Project Manager Location: Remote; Nashville, TN area We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our team. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to deliver impactful solutions. If you enjoy solving complex challenges, working collaboratively, and contributing to meaningful projects, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Important Work Tasks Manage and support one or more project teams to successfully deliver project outcomes Plan, monitor, and report ensuring that projects meet agreed thresholds and objectives Manage project the performance including financials, schedule, and quality Scope management: Establish and maintain scope of work definition for project in accordance to contract requirements Conduct change order management Planning: Develop and maintain project management plans Develop and maintain project schedules Financial management: Create and maintain project budgets/estimates Risk management: Create and Manage Risk Management Plans Create and update Risk register and Risk mitigation plans/actions Quality: Plan and follow up for project to meet defined quality requirements Understand and perform document control functions for all project files that adhere to the PMO standards Work closely with development, testing, and accounting to ensure that all divisions/groups have full project awareness for the appropriate PMO protocols to be supported Ensure Requirements documents, Design documents, User Manuals, Administration Manuals, Release notes, and training documents are all in sync before customer delivery Project deliverables / scrum: Organize, facilitate, and record all Scrum activities (e.g., planning, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives) and keep stakeholders informed on the team’s progress. Lead requirements gathering/tracking process, orchestrate design stage meetings, manage scope creep, assist with managing UAT, documentation and deployments Resource management: Perform resource planning/forecasting Coordinating day-to-day project tasks Work with Engineering to resolve resource and delivery issues/conflicts Client handling: Serve as primary point of contact for clients, building strong and collaborative relationships Attend and coordinate customer meetings, follow up with customers Recognize and follow up on opportunities for potential new tasks/functionality that the customer could benefit from Work closely with Business Development for new business Perform product demos to clients Develop proposals, contracts, sub-consultant agreements, task orders, statement of work Complete, review and approve customer status reports, and customer invoicing Communication/reporting: Maintain/communicate overall and individual project status forms to communicate to the other groups, customer, and third-party consultants; manage all communications to stakeholders Maintain high level project status form for management reporting Sales Participate in proposal for project management activities including writing Your Experience and Knowledge Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Traffic, Civil, Transportation, or Electrical) or Computer Science 2+ years of experience working in Agile development environment 5+ years of hands-on experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivering all phases of an IT project 3+ years of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Operation Management methodology 5+ years of Intelligent Transportation Systems experience PMP Certification CSM certification is a plus Experience with scoping, planning, and leading multi-phase multi-million-dollar projects Ability to lead teams of 5+ developers, full size team of 8+ people Analytical skills for problem solving issues Exceptional organization skills Effective communication skills, written and oral Experience with Java programming a plus Understanding of business development/marketing practices