What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager position at Skywalk Global?
Job Details
This position provides oversight, leadership, accountability, and project management functions for one or more large size, complex projects. These projects typically utilize in-house development or vendor participation and require complex schedules and integration with other systems. Large sized projects typically have durations longer than 6 months with 20 or more team members, require communication at the Agency Leadership level and have a medium to high risk.
This position will ensure consistency with the State of Michigan (SOM) project management, investment management and systems engineering methodology (SUITE), perform long-term release planning based on organizational direction, regularly interact with the project management teams for status of budget, quality and schedule, escalate issues and risks as needed to executives and exercise project quality control activities to ensure project scope expectations are met.
Required Skills:
5 Years of recent Project Management experience.
Documented experience managing an IT project(s) in a large, complex, enterprise-governed IT environment.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Resource will need to be proactive with their communication and have solid critical thinking skills.
Must be collaborative, open-minded, and willing to adapt to the state s processes. Will work closely with Program and Portfolio Managers and must be open to additional leaderships oversight.
Desired Skills:
Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification highly desired.
5 Years of Agile Experience highly desired.
