TECHNICAL LEAD

Expectations:
• Planning, organizing, and directing the completion of high sensitivity projects while managing risks and issues to minimize scope, budget, and schedule impacts
• Driving contract management, change control, risk management, and resource management
• Deep experience in high-level stakeholder management, at all levels within the organization
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down progress, escalate and mitigate risks/issues to portfolio manager and program lead.
• Experience with measuring success in delivery, through KPI’s, metrics, and value realization
• Planning and delivery for both waterfall and agile projects
• Ensuring compliance to project delivery methods, tools, framework, and IT controls.
• Partnering with portfolio manager and IT Budget Management team to actively manage and deliver the financial commitments for financial portfolio. Partner with finance, project teams, and value stream owners to ensure all financial cadences (e.g., quarterly budgeting cycles, month-end closings, etc...) are supported by and aligned to portfolio financials
• Create and maintain resource plans (in coordination with resource managers) that account for all resource capacity and utilization across the IT function while informing internal capitalization projections
• Manage vendor and supplier performance to ensure that contractual agreements are met
• Monitor portfolio health through OKRs and portfolio metrics and financial status against relevant constraints, including strategic investment guidance, portfolio budgets vendor contracts, and operating budgets.

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• 7+ years practical experience of demonstrated project/program management, with experience having delivered several large scale projects independently is a must.
• PMP certification
• Working knowledge of MS Project, Smartsheet, and Jira
• Bring a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day activities and when helping others make strategic trade-offs
• Self-starter with the ability to lead teams through ambiguity to solve problems and drive results
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration; able to work well in a cross-functional environment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of hands-on, detail orientated
• Ability to establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and technical and non-technical team members alike
• Project finance and accounting acumen
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications (verbal and written) that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives