Sr. Consultant, Technical Project Management - Redmond

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Artic Consulting is expanding our organization, building a values-driven global organization known for our commitment to excellence and business impact, outstanding working relationships with clients and team members, and leading-edge knowledge in business consulting and technology solutions.

Artic Consulting has an immediate opening for a Sr. Consultant, Technical Project Manager to join our team. This is a full-time, direct-hire position.

Description and Responsibilities

The mission of the Sr. Consultant, Business Management Services is to assist our clients with multiple strategic and logistical activities, as well as manage projects within planned schedule and budget in tandem with successfully managing stakeholder expectations.

This is an opportunity to work on an enterprise-level Lead flow engine across a variety of teams to make immediate impact within a cutting-edge Technology organization.

Responsibilities

Manage large-sized projects and / or multiple medium-sized projects per year and possible broader portfolio

Detailed documentation and follow up on content and deliverables.

Mentor Associate and Mid-Level Project Managers each year

Represent Artic Consulting at local industry-related networking events.

Work with Business Development to bring in new clients / projects per year

Support semester planning, drive coordination between Business Management Partners

Update and ensure accurate Azure DevOps Documentation

Communicate project status updates to appropriate stakeholders

Build a monthly project status deck

Coordinate and conduct project planning and forecasting with Associate and Mid-Level Technical Project Managers

Ensure projects are progressing on time and complying with monthly project cycles

Conduct impact assessment analysis for projects

Conduct weekly Leadership team update meeting and daily status emails and detailed meeting notes

Ensure upstream dependencies are delivering as expected and in a timely manner

Articulate to all types of stakeholders the business goals and strategy as well as a project’s overall status, risks, and issues faced.

Establish priorities and gain commitments to the scheduled delivery with both internal and external resources.

Communicate new ideas to contribute to success for stakeholder

Required Qualifications :

Superb organizational skills including keeping track of lots of details, tasks, and action items.

Excellent understanding of project methodologies such as Agile / Scrum, PMP / Waterfall and can plan out processes and stand-up new projects including mobilizing a team from zero.

Ability to resolve all issues with internal and external clients involved in the projects then drive solutions.

Ability to create complex Business Requirements Documentation

Expertise with Microsoft’s Azure DevOps and create complex queries for managing bugs / work items and performing cleanup of the tracking tool. One must be able to start from scratch to set up an instance of Azure DevOps for a team to use.

Technical Expertise in software development methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, and / or DevOps practices.

Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure

Familiarity with CI / CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), and version control systems (e.g., Git).

Ability to learn about the business landscape through interviews with key stakeholders, where detailed notes are captured and collected to allow others to benefit from the information.

Can come up with all the processes to do Scrum / Agile with the team including training others to manage all meetings / ceremonies.

Proactively seek ways to increase the level of responsibility and take ownership of new areas of responsibility.

Ability to organize and conduct code review and debugging

Ability to manage and raise issues and challenges appropriately.

Self-motivated and self-disciplined; ability to work alone at a client site to complete tasks in a timely manner without significant day-to-day management oversight.

Enjoy working in a fast paced, high-output, time sensitive environment.

Preferred Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Communications, or a technical field.

Master’s degree or PMP / Agile certification preferred.

Demonstrate experience managing stakeholders’ expectations and effectively mitigating dissatisfied stakeholders.

Ability to create SQL Queries.

Collaborative, with the ability to lead team members, development teams, and other business groups, often without direct management authority.

Excellent leadership skills that cultivate passion, creativity, and sense of adventure.

Prior consulting experience.

Ability to travel as necessary (25% – 50%.)

Professional Skills

Relentless planning and forecasting skills.

Excellent risk management skills

Expert account management and budgeting skills

Expertise in Project Management methodologies (Agile to Waterfall)

Proven expertise to lead, mentor and train, to build team morale and interpersonal skills

Effective time management and organizational skills

Critical thought process, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Artic Consulting is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Artic is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring.

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