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Become an Information Technology Project Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be responsible for delivering multiple Software projects in the IT-Enterprise portfolio with a high degree of quality and within scope, schedule, and budget.You will plan and lead projects of varying size and complexity, which require you to make daily decisions associated with project health, vendor performance, portfolio financials, and risks / issues. You will ensure technology investments deliver positive business value and are directly associated with strategic Organizational Unit (OU) goals. You’ll partner and collaborate with multiple internal and external partners, at various levels of management including IT vendors, Telecom, Cybersecurity, Change & Release Management, Service Management, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations. You’ll align multiple collaborators to assess performance against project plans, issue resolution, and escalation; effectively communicate with all levels of leadership.

As an Information Technology Project Manager, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions, and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

A day in the life - Get ready to think big, work smart and shine bright!

• Serve as the main point of contact for technology requests within the assigned IT portfolio. Develop the business case for each initiative that will help IT/OU leadership make educated decisions on the priority within the portfolio. Handle and prioritize demands along with resource capacity, architectural solution, and evaluation of operational and developmental value streams.
• Direct project planning (scope, schedule, and budget), project initiation, project execution, and project closure by adhering to SCE IT standards and processes.
• Perform project planning, analysis, estimation, design, evaluation, demonstration, construction, and implementation for multiple concurrent initiatives with medium or high complexity. Ensures outcomes satisfy business requirements and project deliverables meet quality targets.
• Handle all responsibilities include dealing with the vendors, negotiating rates with them, defining scope of work from them and project team, ensuring that the vendors provide quality goods and services, handling various other related tasks/achievements and invoice payments.
• Lead project timeline and budget including cost plans, invoices, unit estimates, and work orders; develop 90% confidence in project estimates.
• Proactively and independently handle project risks and issues against project scope, timeline, and budget.
• Conduct and participate in regularly scheduled project team meetings and Sponsor updates to provide general status on project deliverables, milestones, and overall project work.
• Lead both Waterfall and Agile projects and perform as Scrum Master.

The essentials

• Seven (7) or more years of experience managing IT projects (scope, schedule, and budget) with balanced business and technical knowledge to provide credible leadership to multi-function project teams with at least 10-15 team members including Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts, and QA Personnel.
• Three (3) or more years of experience as a Project Manager handling large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment with multi-function teams with a solid track record of efficiently implementing software or cloud deployment projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Three (3) or more years of experience leading project quality, including quality assurance, metrics, and quality controls.
• Two (2) or more years of professional work experience handling suppliers, service contracts, project metrics, and contracts to meet project objectives.

The preferred

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Computing Information Systems, Engineering, or relevant technical field.
• Two (2) or more years of IT portfolio management, product line management, or customer relationship management experience
• Seven (7) or more years of experience working in Information Technology for an electric utility.
• Effective interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Solid understanding of and experience in using appropriate tools\:
  • Agile tools such as Jira/Octane, GitHub, or equivalent
  • Microsoft Project, Visio, and all Office Tools
• Experience with Product Line and Value Streams methodologies.
• PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification, SAFe Scaled Agile Framework Certification, PMI – Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification, or equivalent certifications preferred.

You should know

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, and hiring process, and more!
• Position will require up to 20% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.